RE: [APML] Moon and Planets

["Stan Richard" <stanrichard@hotmail.com>]

Jeff, nice shot there with the earthshine showing up nicely and colors of 
Venus, but did you flip this image, it's backwards.

Stan


>From: "Jeff Ball" <jeffball@zoominternet.net>
>Reply-To: astro-photo@seds.org
>To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
>Subject: RE: [APML] Moon and Planets
>Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 13:21:30 -0400
>
>Hello Stan,
>I took a stab at the Venus/Moon conjunction with a digital camera
>through my TV85 on a Telepod.  I was rigging up my AP for deep sky work.
>I went with the overexposed Venus/Moon with Earthshine.  I just could
>not get Venus sharp anyway with shorter exposures and I thought the
>earthshine was more attractive even if it blew Venus off the pixels.  I
>controlled some of the flare around Venus with a selection tool and
>curve reduction.  The semi-apo of the TV85 shows it's true colors on
>Venus<g>
>http://www.astro-photography.com/venus_conjunction.htm
>
>Jeff Ball
>
> >
> > Paul, I see alot of dust specs on the large moon/planets shots?  Nice
> > labelling job.  You nicely captured the earthshine in the
> > first photo.  I
> > just got back my roll from last nite, will scan a few tonite
> > and see how
> > they turned out.  Sure was a pretty site seeing the moon and
> > Venus together
> > in the sky, wasn't it.  I hope some more list members will
> > post some more of
> > these types of shots for us.  Keep 'em coming.
> >
> > Stan
> >
>
>
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