The Night Sky

[yourlibrarian]

The horizon glow was such a contrast to the blackening clouds approaching it.



Venus has been particularly bright in our sky and even Jupiter (which does have a red shine!) is also very noticeable, usually on our horizon.



The best I was able to do was the one above being Venus, and the other two being Jupiter. I still find it amazing we can see a sphere with just a zoom lens camera.

Comments

[shirebound]

Wow, your planet shots are amazing. I've never tried stellar astrophotography.

[yourlibrarian]

I wouldn't have thought it was possible -- even our duck shots from across the lake have some fuzziness at full zoom. Mind you, it's tough to get these in focus at all as just the slightest wobble throws them off (the top one almost ended up completely out of the shot). Little wonder people who do it regularly use tripods for it. I got a whole set of squiggly lines and another one in 3 stages that looked like a space acid trip!