Mars and the full Moon on Friday night!

Lagnagoushee

Mars and the full Moon pair up to provide a grand celestial spectacle on Friday night. Check out here http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100128/tsc-mars-and-moon-in-heavenly-show-4b158bc.html

woytek_tzn

I'll be going crazy again:D

tororosso

Are you sure you will be able to see anything? I read this which indicates it might be hard to make out:

"This is not a great opposition for Mars because it occurs around the time that Earth is closest to the Sun and Mars is farthest. The gap between the two planets will be a hefty 62 million miles (99 million km). The smallest possible distance at opposition is about 35 million miles (56 million km), which happened a back in August of 2003, and prompted the infamous emails that now surface every August, that Mars would be as big the full Moon, which of course, is not — and was not — true. Mars appeared more than twice as bright then as it will this year, but was still a star-like dot in the sky."

The link: http://www.universetoday.com/2010/01/28/big-full-moon-and-mars-put-on-a-show-friday-night/

Calina

CLoud cover is killing the option here at the moment.

Effects

Went upstairs at 9 and took some shots as it was clear. Didnt see anything special. But then I don't often take pictures of the moon.

NORTH1

This was an interesting problem. I shot stars before and loads of moon shots but never the two together! The moon was so bright the star or in this case Mars was not seen.

This was my best effort.
Mars is the little dot on the left.

Click for Large.

Anyways the moon.

nilhg

NORTH1 wrote: »

This was an interesting problem. I shot stars before and loads of moon shots but never the two together! The moon was so bright the star or in this case Mars was not seen.

I cheated a bit, two exposures, blended in PS, still not exactly spectacular.