Monday, February 3, 2014

The Crescent Moon and Uranus

I like taking unusual pictures sometimes. They aren't always the most spectacular shots, but they show off unusual conjunctions that may happen fairly often but are rarely photographed.
Tonight's shot that falls into that category is the Moon and Uranus. I didn't think I was going to get a chance at this on as it was raining in the early part of the evening. By chance I happened to be outside around 9pm and it had cleared so I grabbed the camera and went for it. The following shot was taken with my Canon60D, EF 75-300mm lens at 220mm and f/5.6, 0.5 second exposure at ISO3200. I fired up Stellarium to verify which of the fainter objects was Uranus and put a little line pointing to it (and it took forever since my computer with Lightroom and Photoshop had a hard drive crash and I am currently waiting for replacement parts I had to use alternate photo processing programs...don't worry...a good backup exists!)
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In October, we will have a totally eclipsed Moon very close to the planet Uranus. I look forward to capturing this pair at that time, clouds willing!
Reprinted with permission from the Half-Astrophysicist Blog.
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9 comments:

  1. SERFebruary 4, 2014 at 1:45 AM

    Good one Boppster...Thanks for posting

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  2. OrbsCorbsFebruary 4, 2014 at 2:11 AM

    Your moon may be big, but Uranus is still small.

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  3. kkditherFebruary 4, 2014 at 6:47 AM

    I appreciate you saying that, orbs. It looks big in the mirror.

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 4, 2014 at 9:33 AM

    Child's humor

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  5. hale-boppFebruary 4, 2014 at 10:39 AM

    I try not to underestimate the potential for juvenile humor...especially when combining Uranus AND the Moon!

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  6. OrbsCorbsFebruary 4, 2014 at 12:52 PM

    Anonymous, join up, post blogs, and show us how it's done.

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  7. BL BasketcaseFebruary 4, 2014 at 1:10 PM

    Where is Andromedo? He has 77 answers and explanations for everything. They are all out of this world!

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  8. andromodo77February 4, 2014 at 8:52 PM

    Ur anus with the moon is always an easy 77 ways to banter your lover.

    I think somebody blogging on this topic has a circus mirror and is in denial.
    Step to the right, step to the left, closer now farther .... that's the way you do it.
    Now take a picture and post on craigslist in the Racine casual encounter section :) We'll be watching for the post.

    Now for the rest of you:
    Lets see if any of you with big moons on this site want to shake their BOOTY. Shake....Shake.... Shake that BOOTY, Shake that BOOTY

    That's what happens when Hale-Bopp sets the stage

    Thanks Boppster ! :>

    Andromodo has spoken

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  9. AnonymousFebruary 5, 2014 at 10:44 AM

    Obviously andromedoi likes Bootes constellation

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