Where two bright planets in the twilight meet

[Ajay Talwar]

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Where two bright planets in the twilight meet, Upon the saffron heaven,

the imperial star of Jove,

and she that from her radiant urn
Pours forth the light of love.

Let me believe, awhile, that they are met for ends of good,
Amid the evening glory, to confer
Of men and their affairs, and to shed down
Kind influence.

Lo! their orbs burn more bright,

And shake out softer fires! The great earth feels
The gladness and the quiet of the time.

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Hello Fellow Astronuts,

The conjunction of the two brightest planets, Venus & Jupiter is imminent next month.

The planets will be within three degrees of each other on the evening of March 14.

On February 26, Venus, Crescent Moon, Jupiter will line up in the evening (in that order) and

on March 26, Jupiter, Crescent Moon, Venus will line up (reversing their order from the previous month)

Surely a time to plan for some evening astrophotography.

Here is a video that I made yesterday in anticipation.

No of Images used: 300

Exposure: 10 seconds each

Duration of entire video in real (earth's rotation) time: 75 minutes

Batch processing in photoshop & video built in premiere.

Hope you like the video, comments of all flavours are welcome, the video is here:

http://youtu.be/P8tuurSvOgQ?hd=1

Ajay Talwar

www.twanight.org/talwar

[Sankaranarayanan K V]

Hi, Ajay:

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:01 AM, Ajay Talwar <ajayta...@gmail.com> wrote:

Here is a video that I made yesterday in anticipation.

http://youtu.be/P8tuurSvOgQ?hd=1

The video looks pretty good! Did you use a camera dolly?

Regards

Sankar

[Ajay Talwar]

Hello Sankar,

Yes I have made a dolly and used it for this video.

Ajay

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[Ajay Talwar]

Hello Shankar,

Thanks, and I did use a dolly that I made myself.

Ajay Talwar

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Sankaranarayanan K V <kvsa...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Sankaranarayanan K V]

Hi, Ajay:

Can you please share some details about the dolly? 

How was it constructed, how do you move it at a specific speed, etc.?

Regards

Sankar

[Ajay Talwar]

You can see the dolly here:
https://picasaweb.google.com/113543714818298554921/SkyPhotoTrip3rdEdition#
third and fourth photo.

I used two square aliminium pipes 2" size. There is a platform on top which is pulled by a handle and a gear. The plastic gear (which bangs against the spring loaded plunger and makes a 'tuck' sound whenever one gear is turned. So at night I just counts the 'tucks'.

Presently though I have bought a motor, which is run by a dolly engine, and you can program  the interval, amount of movement, and exposure too. So now I do not have to sit with the dolly for three - four hours continuously.

Ajay