On January 30th Venus and the Moon joined up in the morning sky for a lovely conjunction:
Sony RX100, 1/60s, f/4.9, ISO 1600
On November 17th I decided at 1:00 to try to take some pictures of comet ISON before it’s rendezvous with the sun.
To get above the fog in the Rhine valley I drove up a still-open (normally closed in winter) mountain pass.
I arrived early at the Furkajoch (a mountain pass in Vorarlberg), so I had the chance to take some pictures of the alpine landscape and of comet Lovejoy.
The full moon and a thin layer of high cirrus cloud made the process of locating and imaging the comet difficult.
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While bivouacing with my family high in the Alps I took some wide-angle shots of the summer sky:
An incoming layer of high cirrus clouds announces a change in the high-pressure weather pattern. The ice crystals in the clouds create a highly visible 22° ring of light, also known as a halo around the first-quarter moon.
Lens: Tokina AT-X 12-24 f/f
Camera: Nikon D200
Exposure: f/4 15s ISO 200
Date: 12th February 2011
After a very nice display the day before, another solar eruption triggered an even more impressive display
All images were taken with a Coolpix 4500 camera, either with the wide-angle converter, or the fisheye converter.
Here are some images, additionally you can view these two videos:
While imaging Mars with our Club´s 10″ LX200, I piggybacked the Nikon on my 130mm Vixen Newtonian and took this shot of the Constellation Cygnus.