Moon-Jupiter Conjunction

“There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.”  ~ George Carlin

The moon has been one of my favorite photography subjects for some time so when I heard that there would be a moon-Jupiter conjunction, I knew I wanted to get a few shots of that.  Here are my favorite photographs with the “stats”….

ISO 100 ~ 250mm ~ f/5.6 ~ 1/400 sec

This image was taken January 21, 2013 and I was going for moon detail so Jupiter is not as bright….but you can see it near the center top of the image.  I also added some texture to this because…well, it was kind of boring without it.  🙂

ISO 6400 ~ 50mm ~ f/16 ~ 6.0 sec

Jupiter would be the largest and brightest looking star…and check out my moon flare!  🙂

ISO 4000 ~ 50mm ~ f/16 ~ 6.0 sec

Again…moon flare!  You can see Jupiter to the left of the large flare in the top right hand corner.

Tonight I wanted to capture the moon and Jupiter as a star burst so the last two images were taken with my camera mounted on the tripod….there is no way they would have been this clear if I had hand held the camera for 6 seconds.  🙂   I also used a remote release so I wouldn’t need to touch the camera after I had the shot set up.