Moon and Jupiter Rising
Taken by Victor C. Rogus on October 24, 2013 @
Jadwin, Missouri, USA
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Camera Used: Canon Canon EOS 60D
Exposure Time: 83/1
Aperture: f/8.0
ISO: 800
Date Taken: 2013:10:25 00:18:17
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Hello Friends,
We have enjoyed very few clear nights here in Jadwin, Missouri of late. Night time fog and bright moonlight has hampered my plans to do great things. Well I suppose that is par for the course for late October in the Ozarks. Tonight was clear but cold as the temperature dropped below 30 degrees, a reality of things to come.
At nightfall I began making exposures with a wide angle lens hoping the sky would give up something, a great bolide meteor perhaps, but the sky was quiet this evening, teasing me with one long meteor trail in the East moving lazily to the North from where the constellation Orion would be in a bit. A late Orionid meteor I thought, maybe a long forgotten piece of Halley's Comet, burning up, unnoticed but for me. Halley's comet, of course, is the source of the Orionid meteor shower.
Well before midnight the woods in the East began to blaze yellow-orange, I knew the Moon, 71% illuminated waning gibbous phase was rising; not alone, this evening, but with a companion, the king of the gas giants, the Planet, Jupiter. The sky began to brighten, my friends, the stars began to fade, and I, made a few last exposures.
This exposure was made at 23:45:36 on 10/24/2013 a cannon 60Da camera fitted with a Zeiss manual focus 18mm lens at f8 was used for the 83 second monochromatic exposure, with an ISO of 800.
The brightness of the Moon would end my stargazing for this night, and the weather looks poor for the immediate future, but I know that one day soon the dark and clear nights will return and the stars will shine bright again.
Victor C. Rogus
Jadwin, MO
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