Photo thread

[Flysmallie]

5 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

If the moon is the center of a clock where would they be?

[snagged in outlet 3]

I just saw that @Flysmallie.  Thx though!  Merry Christmas!!  

[Flysmallie]

You could say that I failed but I really never made the attempt. I scouted out a good spot yesterday afternoon. Nobody else would have been there. I packed all my gear. Then after work I stopped by the house to grab everything and just never left. 

[snagged in outlet 3]

19 minutes ago, Flysmallie said:

You could say that I failed but I really never made the attempt. I scouted out a good spot yesterday afternoon. Nobody else would have been there. I packed all my gear. Then after work I stopped by the house to grab everything and just never left. 

I went out after dinner around 7:30 and I think I was too late.  Honestly, you can only see a few stars around here.   Too bright.  

[ness]

I guess 800 years ago the sky would have been darker, there was nothing on TV and Ozark Anglers hadn't become a time sink, so they would have thought it was a bigger deal   

[moguy1973]

This is about as good as I could get of Saturn and Jupiter last night.  This was on a tripod with my 270mm zoom lens with about a second of exposure.  Any more exposure and the wind made the tripod jiggle and I got squiggly lines.

[Basfis]

1 hour ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:

If the moon is the center of a clock where would they be?

Looking southwest 20-25 minutes after sunset you can’t miss it. It’s visible before dark and is gone not too long after. We had thin clouds roll in around 7 and couldn’t see a trace. It was evident at 5:45. 

[ness]

2 hours ago, ColdWaterFshr said:

I couldn't see it very clearly last night.  Or maybe I was looking at the wrong thing.  Is early in the evening the best?  Southwestern sky?

I was in a decent spot, up high without a lot of light pollution and it was still fairly hard to pick up. What you'll see is a fairly bright 'star' (Jupiter) and a much dimmer one (Saturn) near it. Haven't read up to see what it'll look like tonight though.

Sunset here was 5:01 last night. I could see it at 5:45 to about 6:30 before I went in. 

[moguy1973]

1 hour ago, ness said:

I was in a decent spot, up high without a lot of light pollution and it was still fairly hard to pick up. What you'll see is a fairly bright 'star' (Jupiter) and a much dimmer one (Saturn) near it. Haven't read up to see what it'll look like tonight though.

Sunset here was 5:01 last night. I could see it at 5:45 to about 6:30 before I went in. 

And Saturn isn't round like Jupiter.  I thought in my pictures it was jiggle from the wind but it's the rings that makes it look not round.

[snagged in outlet 3]

I walked up to top of my street and saw them.