From my friend of mine in Argentina.
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Great photo!
I downloaded It, Thanks. And thank your friend please.
From my friend of mine in Argentina.
This is a great photo.View attachment 443509
Really great image, but important to understand it’s a composite image. As the OP states, it’s several separate exposures, one of each planet, then merged together with each in the correct relative position. An optic with that resolving power would not have a wide enough field of view to see both planets at once. And an exposure to capture the rings and swirls would not capture the moons. Note he used two different cameras, a DSLR and an astrophotography one.From my friend of mine in Argentina.
This is a great photo.
Meade LX200 uhtc 10.
Zwo asi 224 mc.
Cannon 6d
Two 5 min exposures
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Thanks for the explanation, Tony. It's a truly great picture regardless of the special processing. I'm an amateur astrophotographer myself (I was unable to get a shot myself due to clouds), but I could see that there was some special processing; I knew that I couldn't get both planets in the same view at that magnification with my own equipment. I'm envious!Really great image, but important to understand it’s a composite image. As the OP states, it’s several separate exposures, one of each planet, then merged together with each in the correct relative position. An optic with that resolving power would not have a wide enough field of view to see both planets at once. And an exposure to capture the rings and swirls would not capture the moons. Note he used two different cameras, a DSLR and an astrophotography one.
Not dinging the image, I’d be happy and proud to call it mine. But just an explanation of how it was made.
Tony
Really great image, but important to understand it’s a composite image. As the OP states, it’s several separate exposures, one of each planet, then merged together with each in the correct relative position. An optic with that resolving power would not have a wide enough field of view to see both planets at once. And an exposure to capture the rings and swirls would not capture the moons. Note he used two different cameras, a DSLR and an astrophotography one.
Not dinging the image, I’d be happy and proud to call it mine. But just an explanation of how it was made.
Tony
Really great image, but important to understand it’s a composite image. As the OP states, it’s several separate exposures, one of each planet, then merged together with each in the correct relative position. An optic with that resolving power would not have a wide enough field of view to see both planets at once. And an exposure to capture the rings and swirls would not capture the moons. Note he used two different cameras, a DSLR and an astrophotography one.
Not dinging the image, I’d be happy and proud to call it mine. But just an explanation of how it was made.
Goes to show how much I know. I put it down to inversion due to the mirror!The orientation of the two planets is incorrect in the composite image. Easy for him to modify to make it an even better image.
From my friend of mine in Argentina.
This is a great photo.
Meade LX200 uhtc 10.
Zwo asi 224 mc.
Cannon 6d
Two 5 min exposures
View attachment 443509
The relative orientation of the two planets, not the orientation of the photo!Goes to show how much I know. I put it down to inversion due to the mirror!
One thing though, a real single image would show Saturn much smaller than Jupiter, both because it IS smaller and because it is further away.View attachment 443548
Put in perspective, here are Jupiter’s moons compare to Earth
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That's what I mean... Dumbo me didn't even realize that! Thanks also for your mighty fine photos on the 1st page!The relative orientation of the two planets, not the orientation of the photo!
Looked that here in NW Wisconsin.
Those composite photos and heavy editing are neat to see, but they lead to comments like the one made earlier where what can be seen by the rest of us is underwhelming. This is a neat phenomenon, but with the naked eye the planets do look like a bright star.
When I was in high school, a friends dad and the astronomical society had an observatory at a nearby summer camp. When observing galaxies many of the campers were disappointed the galaxy just look like a blurry smudge. The fact they were seeing a galaxy so far away was lost on them compared to the images seen in text books. This one, and the comet over the summer, is the same thing.
The actual Christmas stars are explained fully in the documentary below. It has nothing to do with Jupiter or Saturn
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