November 15th 2030 GMT Moon and Jupiter with planetary moons
I used my Mak and DSLR to snap the full supermoon at 1.54m
focal length, ISO 100 and 1/1000 second exposure.
I moved to Jupiter and increased the exposure to 1/200
second exposure.
I changed the ISO setting to 6400 and exposure to 1/3 second
to try to capture some moons.
It was not perfect but I captured all four main Galilean moons. I combined it with the planetary photo to form a composite.
I changed my operations to my DSLR and 300mm focal length, ISO 6400 and 2 seconds exposure. I went for Jupiter's and Saturn, hoping to capture some moons. I didn't!
I redid the Moon, as it was a supermoon and I did not think
I captured the whole disc. I set my DSLR to 300mm focal length, ISO 100 and
1/2000 second exposure.
I tried to capture the Moon and Jupiter with my DSLR at 35mm focal length, ISO 6400 and 1/25 second exposure but Jupiter had disappeared behind cloud.
I used the same settings to capture the lunar halo.
I combined the halo image with one of the Moon on its own.
November 15th 2000 GMT Moon and Jupiter
The Moon was full and very bright. I snapped it with my phone camera with Jupiter.
November 15th 1200 GMT Sun
I bin scanned the Sun through moving cloud and saw two sunspots.
November 14th 2255 GMT Moon, Jupiter and Mars
I used my phone camera at default settings to capture the Moon with Jupiter, then Jupiter with Mars.
November 14th 2000 GMT Moon and Planetary Moons
I photographed the Moon with my DSLR at 300mm focal length, ISO 100 and 1/1000 second exposure.
I photographed Jupiter's moons with my DSLR at 300mm focal length, ISO 6400 and 1 second exposure. I did not catch any.
I tried to capture Saturn's moon Titan at the same settings. I did not catch it, either.
November 13th 2120 GMT Moon and Jupiter
The forecast cloud thickened but it did not obscure the
Moon, nor Jupiter.
I photographed the Moon with my Mak and DSLR at 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure.
I photographed Jupiter at 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/100 second exposure. This was underexposed, under the conditions, and I did not capture any details.
November 13th 1730 GMT Moon
The forecast clouds were already gathering. I snapped the Moon with my DSLR at 300mm focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure.
November 13th 0915 GMT Sun
The Sun appeared to be very quiet, as I photographed it with my Mak and DSLR at 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure.
November 12th 2300 GMT Moon
It cleared a bit, so I had another go at the Moon. First up was the lunar disc at 300mm focal length, ISO 100 and 1/100 second exposure. This did not work, with no lunar disc visible.
Next was the lunar halo at 70mm focal length. ISO 100 and
1/25 second exposure.
Then I retried the lunar disc at 300mm focal length, ISO 100
and 1/400 second exposure. I only had one decent image.
November 12th 2130 GMT Moon
The Moon was shining through some thin cloud. By the time I had returned with my camera, the clip had thickened. I ended up with my DSLR at 300mm focal length, ISO 100 and 1/25 second exposure and hoped!
November 12th 1305 GMT Sun
It took a long time for the cloud to clear and the Sun was
already noticeably low in the sky. I finally caught it with my Mak and DSLR at
my usual settings of 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second
exposure.
November 12th Jupiter, Mars and Sirius
It had cleared ro the south. Betelguese had appeared to
brighten a bit, perhaps to about magnitude 0.4.
Mars had brightened quite considerably since I last saw it. I snapped it with my phone camera at default settings with Jupiter and Sirius. For the first time, I had managed to stack phone camera images to show two background stars.
November 11th 2030 GMT Moon and Jupiter
I took my Mak and Angeleyes electronic eyepiece out and did
a lunar imaging session. Not everything worked but I saw some interesting lunar
closeups on my laptop screen. I converted the movie files in PiPP and stacked using Registax 5.
Meanwhile, Saturn had sunk too low for observation from our back garden.
I turned my attention to Jupiter but cloud rolled in. I switched to my DSLR with my Mak and shot the moons at 1.54m focal length, ISO 6400 and 1/3 second exposure. It did not work, as all shots were blurred.
I was hoping to catch the Moon with Saturn but Saturn was
clouded out.
I tried to capture the lunar halo but my initial exposure with my DSLR at 300mm focal length, ISO 100 and1/500 second exposure just caught the Moon.
I decreased the focal length to 100mm, with ISO 800 and 1/25 second exposure to catch the halo.
November 11th 1725 GMT Venus, Moon and Saturn
I did a quick photo shoot with my phone camera at default
settings.
I used 8x zoom to capture Venus between two houses.
At 2.8x The Moon and Saturn both appeared in my photos.
November 11th 1650 GMT Moon and Venus
I finally saw the Moon in clear sky and photographed it with
my Mak and DSLR at 1.54m focal length, ISO 100 and 1/500 second exposure.
Venus was low in the west and too low to use my telescope
on. I switched to my DSLR at 300mm focal length, ISO 100 and 1/200 second
exposure. As suspected, it suggested a 100% phase.
I finally tried to capture the Moon with Saturn but moonlight and twilight conspired to make this difficult. I finally nailed the shot with my DSLR at 100mm focal length, ISO 1600 and 1/25 second exposure.
November 11th 1205 GMT Sun
November 10th 1415 GMT Sun
November 9th 2325 GMT Jupiter and Aldebaran
The first tiny bit of clear sky in the month showed just
Jupiter and Aldebaran. I photographed them with my phone camera at default
settings before they vanished! It needed quite a lot of processing in GIMP to extract Aldebaran from the cloud.