Jupiter!

Hey all. Tonight I randomly decided to see what would happen if I tried to photograph Jupiter. What would I see? Any moons? Well...the photo speaks for itself. I am quite amazed honestly. I thought I would need at least a 6 inch telescope to see anything in the form of a moon and I ended up with all 4! Its nothing spectacular but cool non the less.

Dont mind the rudimentary expansion box. I am still very new to Photoshop.

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Heya ... congrats on capturing the four moons! I was where you are about a year ago, I was so excited when I could photograph Jupiter's moons too! I'm still learning which way is up, so there'll be better advice. But next time, perhaps trying different exposures and then comping them together in photoshop. I found I needed a short exposure to get Jupiter, but then a long one to get the moons.

Also, focusing is much easier if you can plug your camera into a laptop and use the Canon software to preview, as I've found the camera's onbaord LCD a little misleading sometimes.

Hope this helps.
Daniel

yea- take it easy on jupiters exposure, its really bright- youll have to paste the moons from a different layer

Really cool. I need to try again, This was my attempt. I didn't even think about the moons being visible.

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YEAH!!! That's more like it! So do you have two photos taken within minutes of eash other at this exposure and a longer one with the moons?

Wow I had no idea you could actually grab a shot of Jupiter with some color! That is so cool!

I took my shot with a 5D2 and a 70-200 f/4. I am definitely going to have to try this again with my T1i so I can get a bit more reach but I dont know if it will be anything like that 300mm shot but we shall see.

Also love the idea of combining the two shots.

Mine is pretty well cropped but I was surprised I got anything.

Nice one, Jupiter looked very clear last night and I managed to see the moons through binos. The moon was very bright though which was a pain (as it was right next to it).

Might give this a go myself if the skies stay clear.

Mike wrote in post #13380398
Nice one, Jupiter looked very clear last night and I managed to see the moons through binos. The moon was very bright though which was a pain (as it was right next to it).

Might give this a go myself if the skies stay clear.

Yes the moon was causing lots of problems! My solution? I put my baseball hat on top of my lens hood to increase the length of it lol.

Pretty neat. May I ask what your camera setting were? I may give this a shot tonight.

Tis all on the EXIF info on Flickr - 1/60 at f5.6, ISO 200

Will be having a go at it myself, once the rain clouds go away!

robn70 wrote in post #13385160
Pretty neat. May I ask what your camera setting were? I may give this a shot tonight.

Sure
EF 70-200 f/4L
0.4 seconds
f/4.0
ISO 3200

Id imagine that you would need a shutter speed around 1/10 or 1/20 to not blow out Jupiter.

hmm... on those settings I would say you'd need a faster shutter speed than that to get detail, looking at Tommy's photo/settings!

spoonofmilk wrote in post #13385331
hmm... on those settings I would say you'd need a faster shutter speed than that to get detail, looking at Tommy's photo/settings!

Thanks. I still have to give it a shot myself. Its been hazy the last few nights here.

That sounds a little to slow to me.