Coo! - guess what I saw?

[martin]

Whilst walking the dogs in the field just now - http://earthsky.org/tonight - quite spectacular - didn't know to look out for it, there it was!

[desperate]

It's a good time for observing the solar system,  as I type Jupiter is high in the SSW, Mars is a bit further to the East, and later on Saturn will rise in the East. Neptune and Uranus get in on the act as well if you have a good sky and some good bins, or a 'scope.

I'm glad astronomy is looking up........................

Desp

[biff]

While ye good lads will be looking at the skys,
        The good folks of buncrana in donegal will be wondering will they have another earthquake tonight.One woman said,"shure i though it was thunder and lightening again"  and "it was,nt that baddddd Its the auld lightening that get te me"
 There are no understanding some folks tastes.
                                                           Biff

[MarkB]

No sign of Venus when I went out to look just now, but Jupiter is shining brightly. Not sure I've ever knowingly looked at another planet before. 

[clivejo]

There's an App for Android called "Google Sky Map".  It uses your GPS, compass to work out where you are and direction your looking and displays the planets etc as they are in the sky!!  Pretty cool !!

[dhaslam]

Here is one I took earlier (yesterday). Well actually  two because they will a little farther apart at the time.  

[Andyr]

Heres my latest one...must admit I used a large 200mm diameter telescope and stacked about 1000 pics to get a better image. It shows what can easily be done by anyone using modern techniques...

Andy.

[desperate]

Wow that's a great piccy Andy, that must have quite a long focal length, is it some kind of cassegrainian with a webcam at the prime focus?

Stomps off with envy....................

Desp

[Andyr]

        Used a Newtonian 200pds with a x2 barlow lens so about f10 on that one . Tried the cheap webcam route never quite got the results some people achieve (better than my pics by far). I used a dedicated high speed camera which will take upto about 40 odd frames per second over a one minute period.

        The more interesting pics I think are the galaxies and nebula's using dslr's, I've just started learning how to do this side of it when we get the odd clear night and quite a few hours spare without annoying the wife to much.

Cheers Andy.

ps the little dot on the pic is one of the moons, can't remember which.