{"id":446,"date":"2008-12-01T21:19:10","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T21:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2008\/12\/01\/conjunction_moo\/"},"modified":"2008-12-01T21:19:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T21:19:10","slug":"conjunction_moo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2008\/12\/01\/conjunction_moo\/","title":{"rendered":"Conjunction: Moon, Venus and Jupiter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/photo\/main.php?g2_itemId=347\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2008\/img2008120101_2061sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tonight&#8217;s conjunction was a beautiful sight in the dwindling twilight. McMillan Mesa provided a wide open view of the western horizon as the lunar-planetary trio sunk lower. Thin cirrus, and a fresh contrail added color and interesting geometry to an already stunning scene. To cope with the wide dynamic range of the sunset and brilliant crescent moon, I combined two overlapping exposures in the shot above: 1 shot at 1\/50 sec to capture the crescent moon, and another shot at 2 seconds to capture everything else. (Canon EOS 300D, ISO 800, f\/5.6, 25 mm.)<\/p>\n<p>Below is another photo I shot earlier after walking out of the office for the day. The conjunction was already putting on a spectacular display.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/photo\/main.php?g2_itemId=360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2008\/img2008120101_2051sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following two photos were shot the previous day, November 30, 2008, from my front yard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/photo\/main.php?g2_itemId=352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2008\/img2008120101_2031sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/photo\/main.php?g2_itemId=356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2008\/img2008120101_2027sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What an awesome display!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/archives\/images\/2008\/img2008120101_2074sm.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conjunction: Moon, Venus and Jupiter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astro-photography","category-lunar","category-planetary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":554,"url":"https:\/\/perezmedia.net\/beltofvenus\/2010\/12\/08\/drawn_to_the_un_17\/","url_meta":{"origin":446,"position":0},"title":"Drawn to the UniverseDECEMBER 2010 &#8211; Twilight Conjunction","author":"jperez1690","date":"December 8, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Sketch of Twilight Lunar-Planetary Conjunction - AUG 13, 2010 Move mouse over sketch above to view labels. 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