Could someone step outside for lunar pic of a lifetime?

[jade1]

Was hoping to see a good pic of the 50 year moon and planet cluster. My p&s doesn't cut it. Thanks.

 

[Pugrpooh]

I was hoping to get out and try it, but it's snowing and sleeting here. Will they be visible tomorrow night too?

 

[My2Girls66]

The best I could get. A tripod would have helped. D80, 70-300mmVR, handheld, 1/10sec, f/10. It was much brighter in real life.

 

[michellem1118]

I tried with my Olympus p-n-s, but no luck without a tripod. I'm hoping it'll still be visible on Thursday when my new dSLR gets here....

 

[ukcatfan]

All clouds here

 

[RBennett]

And at 8:00pm CST all I can find around here is stars; no moon and no planets. I knew I should have gotten my camera out when I came home at 5:00pm and saw it, I just didn't know what I was looking at.

 

[S. C.]

All clouds here

Same here!

 

[jade1]

It sounds like it may only have been the last 2 nights, but just further apart? Will check again tomorrow night.

30 - This year’s “Dance of the Planets” culminates tonight and tomorrow night low in the SW sky at dusk (around 5:30 pm). The two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, are only 2º apart tonight! Venus is the brighter of the two. The thin crescent moon, illuminated with earthshine, smiles about a hand-span to the lower right of the planets. Just wait until tomorrow night!

December

1 - Wow! Venus, Jupiter, and the slender crescent moon form a breathtaking trio in the SW sky after sunset! Some astronomers think that a similar (but much closer) conjunction of Venus and Jupiter in the year 2 BC might have been what the Magi observed and interpreted as the Star of Bethlehem. What a beautiful way to ring in the Christmas season this year! Watch the two planets begin to separate with each passing night.

 

[budmonster]

I have had a really good view of it since Saturday. Though I am not very good at taking night time pictures. I live in a very rural part of FL so there is nothing blocking my view. Plus on Saturday DH went and bought me a very big telescope, the one that you just type in what star you want to see and it goes right to it. I used it tonight and seeing the moon through it was breath taking.

from Saturday.

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from Monday

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Sorry their not better

 

[Michele]

Cloudy here too.

 

[zackiedawg]

Got a bunch, but I didn't have time to lead them off my camera last night as I had a guest in town from UK who is flying out this afternoon. I'm stuck at work today for the next 7 hours, but when I get home I'll be loading all the shots I fired off last night and posting the best of them. I tried several different combinations - from my 200-500 lens at all ranges, using lower ISOs and longer shutters, to some handheld shots at F1.7 with my 50mm lens at high ISO, so I could get a few shots which include foreground scenery. Hopefully, at least a few will turn out decent!

 

[zackiedawg]

OK...this is ancient history now...but I did finally get a few images uploaded from this event. It was windy and with some clouds...but they had enough clearings in them to make it visible and a little interesting. Here's a few different views of it from down here in Florida:

These are with a 200-500 lens at various distances:

Here are a few high ISO F1.7 shots at 50mm:

 

[annnewjerz]

OK...this is ancient history now...but I did finally get a few images uploaded from this event. It was windy and with some clouds...but they had enough clearings in them to make it visible and a little interesting.

I really like your moon gallery, haven't had a chance yet to go out and try to get shots of my own since I don't have a decent tripod yet. The second and fourth are my favorite, but the last few aren't bad either. The palm trees remind me of warm weather and Disney during the last leg of fall here in the Northeast.

 

[handicap18]

Oh is that what that was. I noticed that the other night when I was up in Maine. I was paying more attention to the lighthouse and the sunset, but I did manage to get a shot of it as part of a series of shots I'll eventually put into an HDR.

Here is one of them:

I wish I paid more attention to it. I would have took some shots with my 70-300mm lens too. Oh well.

 

[makinorlando]

Thanks for sharing these! My S2IS did not do well with this at all, but I sure did enjoy seeing it during my evening walks with the dogs! It really was pretty cool!