Well at least I got the two together this week - which I failed to get from the observatory last week or so due very poor seeing.
Hand-held camera with perfect-seeing this time.
At least it is easy to see where the reflected-light is coming from...
Enjoy
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14-9-2020 CRESCENT & a HALF
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Re: 14-9-2020 CRESCENT & a HALF
Wow! fabulous duo took me a while to work out what the half was until I read the photo title
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Re: 14-9-2020 CRESCENT & a HALF
Always nice to catch these occurences on camera (weather permitting being the usual difficulty for you as well, I'm sure). Nicely done.
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Thanks Alexandra and Jochen.
The clue was meant to be in the title, Alexandra !
Indeed Jochen, with all the changeable weather just lately including a heatwave today of over 30-degs.C, at least in the early hours of the 14th, the night sky was absolutely clear with no surface-wind either, so both items being fairly low and very bright in the sky, was better for me to just use the decent camera, rather than wind-up the observatory-gear at that hour.
At nearly 4-degrees separation, the Moon and Venus just fitted into the 20mm telephoto and was able to keep the camera steady enough without the tripod...
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The clue was meant to be in the title, Alexandra !
Indeed Jochen, with all the changeable weather just lately including a heatwave today of over 30-degs.C, at least in the early hours of the 14th, the night sky was absolutely clear with no surface-wind either, so both items being fairly low and very bright in the sky, was better for me to just use the decent camera, rather than wind-up the observatory-gear at that hour.
At nearly 4-degrees separation, the Moon and Venus just fitted into the 20mm telephoto and was able to keep the camera steady enough without the tripod...
KEEP SAFE & WELL
Regards
Terry
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Re: 14-9-2020 CRESCENT & a HALF
Terry, is it the Moon and Mars (as per title on photo) or the Moon and Venus as you mention in the previous comment?
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Apologies Alexandra,
I made a mistook, which meant that the title should have read the Moon and Venus.
Having just read something about Mars just before publishing that image, my brain-box must have seized then.
If you want me to resend the image with the correct title, it can be done shortly ?
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I made a mistook, which meant that the title should have read the Moon and Venus.
Having just read something about Mars just before publishing that image, my brain-box must have seized then.
If you want me to resend the image with the correct title, it can be done shortly ?
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Re: 14-9-2020 CRESCENT & a HALF
Oh I see! no problem about the image, I was just confused (which is normal). It did look like a mini crescent to me but then I had seen lots of images recently with Mars and the Moon too
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