The Moon Gets Close To Jupiter

henna

http://jhennessy.net/weblog/?p=1086

A brilliant star-like object outshining every other star in the sky was seen in the skies over Ireland on the night of November 9th, 2011. On the lower right hand side of the Moon Jupiter can be seen as a very bright star.

Jupiter comes close to Earth every year and once or twice the Full Moon will be near Jupiter each time. Jupiter is the largest planet going around the Sun. At 88,000 miles wide it is 11 times wider than the Earth. The Moon is tiny in comparison, only 2,160 miles wide, thatÕs 40 times less than Jupiter and one quarter as wide as Earth. However, the Moon is much closer at just one quarter of a million miles away whereas Jupiter is 370 million miles away. So itÕs really only a line of sight effect as Jupiter is 1500 times further away than the Moon.

Any more pics out there???

dirtyghettokid

that was jupiter?? was looking at that last night... i should have taken a pic!

mayo.mick

henna wrote: »

http://jhennessy.net/weblog/?p=1086

A brilliant star-like object outshining every other star in the sky was seen in the skies over Ireland on the night of November 9th, 2011. On the lower right hand side of the Moon Jupiter can be seen as a very bright star.

Jupiter comes close to Earth every year and once or twice the Full Moon will be near Jupiter each time. Jupiter is the largest planet going around the Sun. At 88,000 miles wide it is 11 times wider than the Earth. The Moon is tiny in comparison, only 2,160 miles wide, thatÕs 40 times less than Jupiter and one quarter as wide as Earth. However, the Moon is much closer at just one quarter of a million miles away whereas Jupiter is 370 million miles away. So itÕs really only a line of sight effect as Jupiter is 1500 times further away than the Moon.

Any more pics out there???

Have a few photo's taken last night, but i've gone over my upload limit for this month on pix.ie:mad: so i can't post them here. Is there any other way?

mayo.mick

I forgot about photobucket:o
Some photo's of the moon and jupiter over swinford co mayo.





Nikon D3100 18-55 af vr f/5.6 1/20 iso-3200

Gregor Samsa

I took this a few weeks ago, when the moon and Jupiter weren't quite so close:



Sony A77, Sony 70-400 G lens at 400mm, 1/6 sec F5.6 ISO 1600 on a tripod using remote shutter release.

It's Jupiter (big bright one) with 3 of it's moons (sorry, I can't tell you which ones , but they're 3 out of Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto). You can't see them with the naked eye, so you'd need a telescope to see them - or in this instance, a long lens with a long exposure.

I only took the image to check for "ghosting" on the A77 (there isn't any). I must break out my proper telescope and finally try to get some decent planet shots with the camera mounted on it.

Gumbo

Got these last month, lacking any detail due to my kit lens, but hopefully be getting some sort of zoom in the new year


IMG_0368 by kceire, on Flickr

dinneenp

Took this last night, not great but my best moon photo so far.
I saw the moon on my way home from work but by the time I arrived home it was already dark so I shoot at f2.8, 1/60 second and ISO 200 at 200mm. Ideally I’d have a longer zoom lens so I could crop closer without losing detail.

dirtyghettokid

bright star near the moon tonight - wasn't sure if it was still jupiter or not.. kinda in a different position to the moon from the other night

Borderfox

One from about 10 minutes ago, Canon 550d 70-200 f2.8 IS L f4 1/500th ISO 200

pullandbang

One from a little earlier when there was a bit of fluffy cloud passing by.
5DMKII. 100-400mm lens with a 1.4x extender so 560mm f8 @ 1/125 ISO400