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Post by Tringa on Oct 9, 2022 9:29:19 GMT
Oddly enough I did exactly the same last night.
Unfortunately, the combination of being somewhere with light pollution and some thin high cloud I didn't see much, but also noticed the vapour trials.
Dave
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Post by ianr on Oct 11, 2022 6:53:46 GMT
Oddly enough I did exactly the same last night. Unfortunately, the combination of being somewhere with light pollution and some thin high cloud I didn't see much, but also noticed the vapour trials. Dave Our group of houses are built in a circle sort of thing and although there's street lights all around 'turned off at midnight' and some flood lights not so far away sitting in the back garden shields us from a lot of the spillage and gives a reasonably dark sky directly overhead ian
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Post by Tringa on Nov 4, 2022 22:17:07 GMT
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Post by rowanberry on Dec 8, 2022 22:57:36 GMT
I haven't taken any lunar photos in ages, but it was so bright tonight I couldn't resist. Not one of my better ones, (certainly not as good as that last one Dave took!) but the second one shows it with a planet off to the left... Mars, perhaps? Yule Moon Dec 2022 by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr Moon and Mars Dec 2022 by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr
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Post by ianr on Dec 9, 2022 7:00:38 GMT
I haven't taken any lunar photos in ages, but it was so bright tonight I couldn't resist. Not one of my better ones, (certainly not as good as that last one Dave took!) but the second one shows it with a planet off to the left... Mars, perhaps? Yule Moon Dec 2022 by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr Moon and Mars Dec 2022 by Wabi Gallery, on Flickr I was out around 7am yesterday with the dog it was cold and crispy the full moon had a planet just off to it's right hand side I wondered if it was Mars or Jupiter. Would have made a good picture in the lightening sky's ian
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Post by Tringa on Dec 9, 2022 14:37:45 GMT
Thanks for the comment RB. It is, I think, always difficult getting good Moon photos at full moon. The light is too flat.
Yes, the planet close to the Moon is Mars.
Mars was at opposition(opposite to the Sun in the sky, visible most of the night and at its highest around midnight) yesterday so is easy to spot.
Jupiter is also well placed for observation now. It is around due south at about 6:30pm and fairly high in the sky. It is bright and white(in contrast to the much redder Mars) and through binoculars some of the Galilean moons can be seen.
Dave
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