Imaging Project Portfolio - Solar System
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The Moon. Best seen at full size. I took this shot on the night of 7-1-20. I don't normally do Moon or planet imaging, but I was tweaking part of my rig and the Moon as there ... so why not. The Moon was in its Waxing Gibbous phase and had an illumination of 83%. This is the percentage of the Moon illuminated by the Sun. On July 1, the Moon is 10.81 days old.
VI don't usually shoot planets or the Moon, but I was out last night with my Sony A7iii shooting with the Sony 100mm-400mm GM Zoom with the 1.4 Extender on it - all mounted on a heavy carbon fiber tripod, so I decided to take a shot at it...
Venus approaches M45 - the Pleiades star cluster. It's not very often that you can see a planet so close to a well-known star cluster, and since it was marginally clear last night, I decided to try capturing it. This was shot with my Sony A7iii shooting with the Sony 100mm-400mm GM Zoom with the 1.4 Extender on it. The entire rig was mounted on a heavy carbon fiber tripod. This is 30 x 1-second exposure at F/8, stacked in Deepsky Stacker and processed with Pixinsight and Photoshop.
And now for something completely different. I don’t typically go after Solar System objects, but Comet Neowize blazed onto the scene during the Summer of 2020, and everyone who breathes air was asking me if I was going to shoot the comet. So I decided to make a half-assed effort to do that while I was talking other subs on the other scopes.