After coming back from taking the kids to an afternoon Christmas service and running some last minute errands, we got back to my daughters a bit after sunset and I spotted our friends Jupiter and Saturn in the sky. So after unloading the kids from the van, I grabbed my D850 which still had the 150-600mm Tamron attached to it and jumped in my Jeep running down a couple of blocks to an open park area. I set up quick and shot a couple of hundred shots before the planets got so low they turned into a fuzzy mess from the turbulence over the Rockies.
Over the few hundred shots I took, maybe 5 showed the rings. The rings on Saturn would disappear even on adjacent photos, the turbulence and seeing is that wacky here by the Rockies. I hope to shoot it again this Monday but down in New Mexico as my son lives in a really dark sky area, and I am hoping for better results.
With the 2 planets spread apart so far now, I couldn't crop in any tighter, I did the best I could. So the planets are a bit small.
Oh, what I thought was really cool was there was definite color in the moons of Jupiter. I don't think I had gotten such bright color in them before. So that really excited me.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
Over the few hundred shots I took, maybe 5 showed the rings. The rings on Saturn would disappear even on adjacent photos, the turbulence and seeing is that wacky here by the Rockies. I hope to shoot it again this Monday but down in New Mexico as my son lives in a really dark sky area, and I am hoping for better results.
With the 2 planets spread apart so far now, I couldn't crop in any tighter, I did the best I could. So the planets are a bit small.
Oh, what I thought was really cool was there was definite color in the moons of Jupiter. I don't think I had gotten such bright color in them before. So that really excited me.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
