Star Gazing
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@booboo said in Star Gazing:
@voodoo said in Star Gazing:
@booboo said in Star Gazing:
Scene from the beach this a.m. Red sky in the morning ... plus ...
Starting from the bottom...
Venus
Neptune you can't see
Jupiter
Mars (if you look closely at the top of the shot).Neptune was further up and quite visible but not to the phone camera (And not in frame anywsy)
Amazing!
Shot with?
The photo is actually barely adequate. Taken with my phone. Samsung Galaxy S8. Which is like mumble years old. No special exposures or anything.
Just shows how awesome these planets are showing up at the moment.
Seriously peeps get up early and have a look (then go back to bed ... ).
This shot does not do it justice.
Timestamp for this at 5:17 a.m.
The fact that the stars ... planets ... show so clearly on the phone camera speaks volumes for how bright they are irl.
I have a Samsung 21 or 22 or something. The photo quality is great, super sharp with no effort. But I can't get it to capture colour like you have. I mean, I've never actually tried to figure it out, but the point and shoot method just delivers watered down colours at superb clarity
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@voodoo said in Star Gazing:
@booboo said in Star Gazing:
@voodoo said in Star Gazing:
@booboo said in Star Gazing:
Scene from the beach this a.m. Red sky in the morning ... plus ...
Starting from the bottom...
Venus
Neptune you can't see
Jupiter
Mars (if you look closely at the top of the shot).Neptune was further up and quite visible but not to the phone camera (And not in frame anywsy)
Amazing!
Shot with?
The photo is actually barely adequate. Taken with my phone. Samsung Galaxy S8. Which is like mumble years old. No special exposures or anything.
Just shows how awesome these planets are showing up at the moment.
Seriously peeps get up early and have a look (then go back to bed ... ).
This shot does not do it justice.
Timestamp for this at 5:17 a.m.
The fact that the stars ... planets ... show so clearly on the phone camera speaks volumes for how bright they are irl.
I have a Samsung 21 or 22 or something. The photo quality is great, super sharp with no effort. But I can't get it to capture colour like you have. I mean, I've never actually tried to figure it out, but the point and shoot method just delivers watered down colours at superb clarity
Sheer luck.
Thought it would be too dark but took a punt.
Often take snaps of the sunrise on my morning walks.
They don't always reflect what I'm seeing but this was good.
In portrait mode though (by necessity to get the planets in). (And I really didn't think they'd show up at all.)
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@booboo said in Star Gazing:
Junior and I just drove down the road to a place of slightly less light pollution.
Saw a couple of streaks in half an hour.
So that was ok. Just.
Woke up just now in the middle of the night. Ducked my head out the door and it's clouded over. Bed time (not that we need a wicket atm).
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@MN5 said in Star Gazing:
@booboo said in Star Gazing:
You weren’t lying about the crappy photo. Thanks for trying though
Yeah well ...
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Just saw amazing shooting star.
No doubt re-entry of space junk.
Went and leaned on balcony looking for breeze and looked up toward Orion (east-ish) and massive trail blazed past southerly-ish.
3 or 4 secs. As clear as ye olde worlde Guy Fawkes skye rocket. (It wasn't.)
So cool.
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@booboo said in Star Gazing:
Just saw amazing shooting star.
No doubt re-entry of space junk.
Went and leaned on balcony looking for breeze and looked up toward Orion (east-ish) and massive trail blazed past southerly-ish.
3 or 4 secs. As clear as ye olde worlde Guy Fawkes skye rocket. (It wasn't.)
So cool.
Maybe space junk, maybe not.
Saw an amazing one night before last too so had a look to see what was going on (good website this):
"The Geminids are considered to be one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year, with the possibility of sighting around 120 meteors per hour at its peak, which is on December 13 or 14, depending on your time zone."
The geminids were peak over AKL but would have visible to you and went from 3 Dec to 19th.
Given my previous life involved thousands of hours of staring mindlessly at stars in the middle of the night, I have seen some pretty cool shooting stars, but the other night was as good as I have seen from the ground (no light pollution at my place). Better from 30,000+ feet but very cool none the less.
Probably the most awe-inspiring thing that I have ever seen was a Leonid shower over Northern Alaska with the Aurora as a backdrop. Streams of shooting stars crisscrossing the sky with purple and green wavering curtains all around. Felt like we were just sitting in the middle of it as the stars appeared to even fall below us with our altitude and angle of view. The tropopause at that latitude is so low that the whole show was crystal clear and obviously no light pollution, just staggeringly beautiful.