Hey all,

These pics were taken with a Fujifilm s5800, 8MP, 10x optical (and 5.2 digital). I'm still transversing the learning curve of astrophotography, which is evident, but i appreciate anyone having a look. I love how much i can get from a photo of Jupiter with only my camera. I was also happy to see that Neptune doesn't escape me completely, and it was great to catch them in the same photo (even though i spent an hour photographing a star that i thought was Neptune, lol). These pics were taken on the 17th of July i believe.

Anyway, hope these bring a smile to someones face.
cheers,
Dan

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That's pretty cool. How can you tell it's Neptune though?

I used stellarium. I was just planning on photographing Jupiter but i saw that Neptune was realy close so i jumped at the chance to see if my camera could pick it up.

Looking at the first picture I immediately thought, "Where's the Monolith?"

I never cease to be amazed at what we amateurs can do nowadays. Well done!

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Thanks. My binoculars could only make Jupiter into a 0.5 mm disc.

Although I'm embarrassed to discover I was so ignorant that I thought the big bright one was Neptune.... when it was Jupiter. I was using Kstars, which shows Neptune as a blue dot, and Jupiter as a yellow dot, and the blue dot looked bigger. Silly software.

Jupiter and the Moons...were a lovely sight through my binoculars, the other night. I managed to catch some time, with clear skies in the neighbourhood. I could only discern three Moons...Lovely pearls...

Inner-city skies didn't allow for Neptune...

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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. CARL SAGAN

Mak: Pass the pepperoni please.
Fazor: "Hail, Bautainia! We pledge our hearts to thee! Science and woo, some babbling too, and astron-oh-meee!"
slang: And it made ash out of yew and tree.

That's really cool, I'd love to know how to take such images.

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Oh Foote, how awfully rude of me...
I thought I did leave a hello message here...what happened to it? hmm!

Anyway, I wanted to say your captures of Jupiter and Neptune are wonderful.

I appreciate your sharing them.

ps: I dreamt of Jupiter and the Moons, recently....very similar image to yours...classic image captures, except mine were lined more horizontally than yours.

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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe. CARL SAGAN

Mak: Pass the pepperoni please.
Fazor: "Hail, Bautainia! We pledge our hearts to thee! Science and woo, some babbling too, and astron-oh-meee!"
slang: And it made ash out of yew and tree.

Thanks alot for the comments , and two from mahesh (i can see both), how exciting! lol. I've been wanting to have some more space dreams but they seem to elude me regardless of how long i spend looking at pics or the real thing. Often if i become lucid in a dream, i'll try and fly straight out into space, but it always wakes me when i try

In two weeks I'll probs have a big night of astrophotography and even give image stacking another go, so hopefully i'll have some decent nebula pics to present.

Thanks for the encouragement all!

Thanks again

Thanks. You know Galileo actually saw Neptune alongside the Galilean moons when he first spotted those?

Recent studies suggest Galileo may have actually suspected Neptune’s planetary status but not confirmed or published it. Actually a number of astronomers actually saw Neptune but mistook it for a star before it was discovered as a planet by Galle & D'arrest in 1846 - on Sept. 23rd.

See : http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...o-neptune.html

'Australasian Science' magazine, vol.30 no.8 Sept. 09 - Page 40 "Did Galileo discover Neptune?" by Stephen Luntz
& Moore, Patrick, ‘New Guide to the Planets’, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1993.

So you've recreated the great man's work in the International Year of Astronomy commemorating 400 years since Galileo's great telescopic year! Accident or not that is awesome! Well done & thanks for sharing this with us. :-D

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Believe it or not StevoR, but i actually went to a lecture at my uni, by David Jamieson about his theory. It's all pretty amazing, and i'm keen for the results from the ink analysis, hopefully they'll get it done this year

Thanks for the post.
Dan