By Hassan Dadashi Arani | 2025-03-06
Four and a Half Moons together
On 03/06/2025 08:37 pm by Tom Tan | Melbourne, Australia
The very first thing which made an impression on me was to see other moons.
Tonight is when Jupiter is closest to the moon. They can only fit in a 135mm frame
but Jupiter's moons may be too small to show. In addition, they have such a wide difference in brightness that multiple exposure is necessary anyway.
So I decided to shoot them individually with separate exposure settings and then blend them together.
I intended to use layers to blend them but their positions in the frame were too close
so I just cut Jupiter & its moons and then pasted into a spot above the crescent moon.
The two were actually NOT so close together.
The point is to show there are other moons which can be readily seen,
maybe with a smartphone camera or a compact zoom camera.
Just to show a perspective of sizes.
The moon shot was 1/30 second and ISO 100.
The Jupiter shot was 1/5 second and ISO 3200.
William Optics 61 360mm
Nikon D7500 APS-C camera
Tracking mount on tripod
Remote shutter release
Two photos:
(1) Crescent moon: slight boost in highlight and contrast
(2) Jupiter & four moons: curves to cut down the haze
Just a cut & paste to form a composite