Jupiter with barlow and 26mm eyepiece magnification,
video camera on max zoom. The bands are clearly seen in the original (I
mention this to encourage those with a camcorder to try this).
Venus/Jupiter Conjunction of February 23, 1999 approx 6:00 - 7:30 pm, EST
Taken from Southern New Hampshire. All these images were made using a 10 year old technology Sony camcorder using eyepiece projection with a 6" f/4.8 telescope. All these images look much better directly on the camera or on TV; my video capture board does not work as I would like.
Jupiter with barlow and 26mm eyepiece magnification,
video camera on max zoom. The bands are clearly seen in the original (I
mention this to encourage those with a camcorder to try this).
Images below are of the conjunction itself, with unrotated images, as seen through a Newtonian.
Jupiter is in the upper right portion of the images, Venus is in the lower left. The air was not especially steady or clear this night and both are fairly close to the horizon, causing unsteady seeing. The grainy appearance is from digitization of the images, it is not nearly as obvious in the original. Jupiter's moon are very evident in the original; here they are obscurred by the graininess. These are raw images, without any digital processing.
One of the first shots of the evening. The sky was still quite bright,
showing a pretty blue. My diagonal is undersized for this application, so
some vignetting is evident here.
