Hehe, I will not do so for sure.

Anyway, Czech vs Italy now.

BTW....Italy RULED Czech

Just a little reminder for tomorrow.

Meanwhile, here's a handheld shot (I left my tripod in the office.. ) I took at 8.25 pm this evening of three of the main actors getting into position. Without the tripod, I had to forget about long exposure, so it is terribly underexposed at 2 seconds, f4.8, ASA100 - I should have been using something like 10 secs instead.



At the top left hand corner we have Mars, and centre left is Saturn. The moon (with some earthshine) I think doesn't need to be identified. The bright star near the antenna is probably Eta Cancri (one of the stars of the constellation of Cancer) and I mistook it for Mercury when I took this picture. Mercury was actually lower down, hidden by the roofs.

Tomorrow at this time, the Moon will be fatter, and she will have moved to a position above Mars, forming a nice line with the three planets. And, if you look along this line from the Moon upwards, you will see the bright planet Jupiter just about overhead! Nice!

I almost forgot about tomorrow. Will try to get some pics.....

Double post.....

This post has been edited by julchin_09: Jun 29 2006, 12:27 AM

you mean goal post. see football everywhere hehe

Haha....No footie today...damn...

Anyway checking out footballer WAGs(Wives and girlfriends)..Maybe that put me off....

ARGH!!!!

One half of the sky damn clear, and the other half(where the moon is) is cloudy.

This post has been edited by julchin_09: Jun 29 2006, 09:36 PM

Got it!

My first ever shot containing the Moon, Mars, Saturn and Mercury (in that order)!



Sorry that the planets look so dim and tiny - this is the result of squeezing the picture to a much smaller size, a bit of noise reduction, and recompressing to a jpeg. The planets turned out nice and bright in the original pic.

Just in case you can't find Mercury, it's there along the centre line, near the roof level, and almost hidden by a small dark cloud.

You DA MAN lar.

What format you shoot in ? tiff?RAW? What cam you use?

Can send to me?

I know what you mean.

Just less than 4 minutes after I got the shot above, this happened:



My `Cassie' is a Casio Ex-Z750, nothing spectacular. Original is in jpeg format. No fancy RAW or Tiff capture on this budget camera. I'm not sure I want to upload a 3Mb file.......

Seriously the first pic is good.

Here in Kluang, the clouds were blocking off the moon from 8pm till 9:30+. So couldn't see nothing. WOnder if MR.LKM has a better view from his place.....

Anybody took more pics?

Anybody took more pics?

I am wondering why you always have double posts...

Anyway, I did try to do my first astrophotography through my gun the previous 2 nights. The result is so bad... I think it's due to the misconfiguring of the Meade Envisage which controls LPI...

By the way, March05, it is really good! Mind that I use your photo for a blog post?

I'm honoured and flattered that you think it is good enough to have a place in your blog!
Please feel free to do so.

Hmm....Not sure....Maybe I have Parkinson's.

Hehe, thanks for your kindness!

I am wondering why I have such a bad shot, anyone knows?

Mr.LKM, here're two very challenging shoots for you.

1. Space Shuttle Discovery is now docked at the ISS for at least 10 days. See if you can catch them in their mating position.

2. Jupiter's two red spots (the Great one and Jr) are colliding! Next week will be fantastic time to try to photograph the planet. It's anybody's guess what will happen to the two spots. Will they merge or totally break up? It may be everybody's last chance to shoot the Great Red Spot.....

Unfortunately I have had to return the LX90 I was using, so no chance for me to try for these.

Sounds very interesting indeed. Return the LX90? I thought it was yours?

I didn't know we could see the space shuttle and ISS from here....