tips on shooting Moon, Jupiter and Venus Conjunction.

[photorookie]

I live in Kansas and hope to try to get some shots of the Moon, Jupiter and Venus Conjunction tonight. My longest lens is a 70-300L f4 IS but also have a Canon 200L and a 1.4x converter available. From there I go down to a 24-70L and a canon 10-22 as well. Also have a Canon 135L in the middle of all this.

I dont do much of this type of photography and am curious about suggested settings and lens choice to use. my camera is an XTi and will be tripod mounted.

Thanks!

[jmik26]

Hopefully someone with experience will drop a line. I would assume to use your fastest lens to keep shutter speeds up. I am going to try and get a clean moon shot and hope the 2 planets come out alright? I was looking at some of the exif from other photos and they are using 20mm all the way up to 400mm...Jeff

[Adrena1in]

The moon and the planets are closer than I expected...in fact the moon occulted Venus earlier...I watched as Venus popped out, and regretted massively having a flat camera battery.

I'm not familiar with any of your lenses, but I would say the 200L with the 1.4x or the 70-300. Open the aperture, then fire off some shots from 0.1s to 1 or 2 seconds perhaps. Personally I like to get the dark-side of the moon showing up if I can.

Should get some nice results I hope. Wide-angles with some interesting fireground objects will also make for good photos.

[timeasterday]

You'll need around 200mm focal length if you want a tight shot. Of course wider FL's with some foreground objects are nice too. There's a few breaks in the clouds here (finally!) so maybe I'll get a shot. Last night I was taking 15-20 second exposures at ISO200 with a 24mm lens.

[photorookie]

You'll need around 200mm focal length if you want a tight shot. Of course wider FL's with some foreground objects are nice too. There's a few breaks in the clouds here (finally!) so maybe I'll get a shot. Last night I was taking 15-20 second exposures at ISO200 with a 24mm lens.

do you use a remote shutter release with those, I have a tripod but no release

[photorookie]

Does this work??

2. Moony 11, 8, and 5.6 Rules
There are many different rules that work well when shooting the moon. One favorite for a proper exposure of a full moon is f/11 at one over the ISO setting. For pictures (http://www.popphoto.com/article.asp?section_id=4&article_id=1175#) of a half moon, use the same shutter speed at f/8, and for a quarter moon, use the same shutter speed at f/5.6.

[Dusty]

The 135mm will give you a nice field of view ( see my shot with it) (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?p=6792650#post6792650) and the 200mm will get in closer.
Don't use anything longer.
If you haven't got a remote release, put it in delay mode and it will help.

[timeasterday]

do you use a remote shutter release with those, I have a tripod but no release

Oh yes, forgot to mention that. Timer mode, as mentioned above, works well too.