This was my 2nd day of going after the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. This day was better then Saturday night as the wind was calm and not shaking the camera all over and causing the windchill to feel like it was in the teens. The 28 degrees I was shooting in felt rather warm tonight actually. 
So I didn't have the wind to contend with, but I did have clouds. I had a spectacular sunset that I enjoyed with my 4 and 8 year old granddaughters who came out with me tonight. They had a blast photographing the sunset, fences and eyeballs....
With the clouds I almost decided to pack it up after sunset. There was some sky in gaps, but there was a pretty large bank of clouds floating above the horizon to the west. Anyway, I stayed and played Roblox with the girls while I waited for it to get a little darker. When it was dark enough, sure enough Saturn and Jupiter could be seen through some clouds. Not too thick, but thick enough. But I went out to my set up camera and aimed it at them. By the time I was aligned up, they were in what looked like a small gap that I could shoot for a few minutes before another thin stripe of clouds started to cover them again. A few minutes later they came out into what looked clearer. I am guessing there was still some thin clouds even when it looked clear, only because the gaps weren't that large.
Anyway, back at my daughters, I liked what I had gotten for the most part. My exposure was much better as I severely underexposed tonight having learned my lesson from Saturday night. I converted this one to B&W so I could focus on the shapes. The coloring was a bit off, but not too much. Jupiter was a kind of tan/orange color, but without the stripes in it, it didn't do much for me. But I may try to go back and do a color version, and I did also shoot some video of it that I will try to process also later. I am still learning how to work the video so I focused on the still shots for now. This was one single image, I might try to stack some later for better detail hopefully. I was able to make out the rings of Saturn a bit, so that had me really excited.
This isn't all that good, but it was still exciting to even to a small degree make out the rings of Saturn. I shot this with my D850 in DX and the Tamron 150-600mm @600mm. I did not use the 1.4 TC tonight as I wanted to eliminate any possible source of softness since my Saturday photos were pretty soft.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
So I didn't have the wind to contend with, but I did have clouds. I had a spectacular sunset that I enjoyed with my 4 and 8 year old granddaughters who came out with me tonight. They had a blast photographing the sunset, fences and eyeballs....
With the clouds I almost decided to pack it up after sunset. There was some sky in gaps, but there was a pretty large bank of clouds floating above the horizon to the west. Anyway, I stayed and played Roblox with the girls while I waited for it to get a little darker. When it was dark enough, sure enough Saturn and Jupiter could be seen through some clouds. Not too thick, but thick enough. But I went out to my set up camera and aimed it at them. By the time I was aligned up, they were in what looked like a small gap that I could shoot for a few minutes before another thin stripe of clouds started to cover them again. A few minutes later they came out into what looked clearer. I am guessing there was still some thin clouds even when it looked clear, only because the gaps weren't that large.
Anyway, back at my daughters, I liked what I had gotten for the most part. My exposure was much better as I severely underexposed tonight having learned my lesson from Saturday night. I converted this one to B&W so I could focus on the shapes. The coloring was a bit off, but not too much. Jupiter was a kind of tan/orange color, but without the stripes in it, it didn't do much for me. But I may try to go back and do a color version, and I did also shoot some video of it that I will try to process also later. I am still learning how to work the video so I focused on the still shots for now. This was one single image, I might try to stack some later for better detail hopefully. I was able to make out the rings of Saturn a bit, so that had me really excited.
This isn't all that good, but it was still exciting to even to a small degree make out the rings of Saturn. I shot this with my D850 in DX and the Tamron 150-600mm @600mm. I did not use the 1.4 TC tonight as I wanted to eliminate any possible source of softness since my Saturday photos were pretty soft.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
