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Moon/Venus, Mercury/Jupiter on New Year’s Eve
Published on 1 Jan 2009 at 5:42 pm.
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These pictures were shot about 6:40PM EST. The first is the Venus/Moon conjunction. The second I noticed accidentally and as it turns out is a Mercury/Jupiuter conjunction. Pretty neat.
The seeing was terrible… hazy clouds and high humidity. But what else is new?
Mercury and Jupiter appear to be sitting on the power lines. I [...]
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Moon over San Francisco
Published on 2 Sep 2007 at 6:33 pm.
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Via a somewhat convoluted surfing route I stumbled across this cool time-lapse movie of the Moon coming out of the recent eclipse and setting at dawn over San Francisco!
Just thought I’d share. Anyone else find “accidental imagings” of the event?
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Moon/Venus Conjuntion
Published on 20 May 2007 at 2:40 pm.
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I almost missed this. I was putting the dog out the back door and happened to see it just before it set. I quickly grabbed my camera and tripod. Cannon EOS 300D 100-300mm zoom telephoto. 21:42:43 EDT.
ISO 1600 - 2 sec exposure to illuminate the foreground.
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Note the haze and skyglow of the Florida [...]
Martian Astronomer Images Jupiter
Published on 4 May 2007 at 5:22 pm.
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What looks initially like a Hubble photo or an exceptional ground based image of Jupiter was indeed taken from Mars!
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Image courtesy NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
The martian astronomer responsible for this outstanding shot is actually not a native but a terran immigrant. The HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped this picture on January [...]
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Night Launch
Published on 11 Dec 2006 at 8:54 am.
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This past Saturday they had a night launch of the shuttle (Discovery STS-116). I was on my way off to work but I delayed 15 minutes to bring the video camera outside and catch it. There were some hazy clouds near the horizon that weren’t visible to me until illuminated by the launch. I’m about [...]
