Tonight Jupiter and Moon

Tonight Jupiter and the Moon will be very close, looks like early evening is extremely close.

Anybody have some good techniques for exposing them both and maybe even getting a few of Jupiter's moons in the mix? (Camera / Tripod) Stellarium is showing 4 Jupiter moons visible but with all that light I don't know if its possible to get them.

It should be fun to try and capture them all together but a good starting point and the correct way of thinking would help. Ideas?

Thanks

I've tried a couple of times and couldn't even come close to getting them both exposed properly. You either blow out our moon to see Jupiter's or you properly expose ours and don't see theirs.

The closest I could come was to cheat the do a decent exposure on the dark side of ours:

http://lpod.wikispaces​.com/March+27%2C+2012

Bernoulli wrote in post #15300794
I've tried a couple of times and couldn't even come close to getting them both exposed properly. You either blow out our moon to see Jupiter's or you properly expose ours and don't see theirs.

The closest I could come was to cheat the do a decent exposure on the dark side of ours:

http://lpod.wikispaces​.com/March+27%2C+2012

Looks like did a pretty good job there Rick, I would be very happy with that. Will you be trying it again? LOL

I know its problematic and a challenge but I might try it on a scope tonight. After reading all you went through I'm thinking on dragging out the NexStar 6SE. It certainly does not have the right tracking mount but maybe I can come up with something for single shot.

Might end up with two ping pong balls.

I looked at them on that date, They should be closer together tonight but that may not be a good thing. I don't know much about astro photography.

It's fun to try. I'm also not above combining two separate shots - as long as I disclose it! It at least gives a good indication of the different scales.

I love that shot with our moon, Jupiter and Jupiter's moons.

I did a landscape shot with a single exposure.. Of course the moon is blown out, but it puts the moon/Jupiter rise in perspective.

Tonight's Moon, Jupiter is there, just behind the clouds.

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i got this like 2 minutes ago:

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Here's mine from about an hour ago. Blend of 2 exposures.

Those are nice, I stayed with it until I couldn't feel my fingers on the buttons.

Went ahead and tried a few through the scope. Still had to overexpose Jupiter to see the moons.

The Moons look like eyeballs for some reason. LOL

Oh, thought I might add, I took several shots with the telescope by itself, with eyepiece projection, with 28-135 and the 100-400 without the scope. I couldn't do it. I got everything in the FOV with just the camera lens but they was not what I had wanted.

I was trying to get a single shot like R2duBot's blended image. That looks good BTW.

blended 250mm.

I hadn't thought about trying to get both, guess I know what I am going to be doing tonight lol, he is my jupiter shot from last night.

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