Best picture so far by Texan Matt Smith.
Composite of different exposures overlaid on another photo for positioning.
Jupiter is brighter so exposure is a problem with one photo, also the moons are dim.
11” telescope.
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- Wed Dec 23, 2020 10:40 pm
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- Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:37 pm
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So the photo has gone viral. News sources in India are picking it up and putting it on line.philip964 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 23, 2020 10:26 am So I am Facebook friends with a TV news reporter in another city.
She shared the attached photo. Some other friends have also shared the same photo. It was supposedly taken in Australia.
It is obviously to me a photoshopped composite.
I commented that it was photoshopped.
She denied it and said it was real. ( anything a journalist posts must be real )
I suggested she might want to do some investigative journalism on her post.
She said if Facebook says it’s fake she will believe that.
Many other commenters thought it didn’t look right.
Someone posted a diagram of the planets which showed the correct locations and names of the planets and moons and said that the Jupiter moons had moved in the 12 hour difference between the US and Australia. Thus solving the difference.
The diagram was correct and it did not match at all the fake photograph.
The news reporter then declared that her post was correct and not photoshopped.
I some how felt I was watching the news media world right now in miniature.
Twitter has it but no disclaimer saying it’s fake.
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 11:56 am
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The person also claimed that it was taken with a 300mm lens on their camera.
Now since then I have realized that being in Australia they are on their heads. In addition a telescope reverses the image.
However it does not account for Saturns rings being at 90degrees.
Nor the unbelievable resolution of the 300 mm lens with Saturn.
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 10:26 am
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Re: Jupiter and Saturn Conjunction
So I am Facebook friends with a TV news reporter in another city.
She shared the attached photo. Some other friends have also shared the same photo. It was supposedly taken in Australia.
It is obviously to me a photoshopped composite.
I commented that it was photoshopped.
She denied it and said it was real. ( anything a journalist posts must be real )
I suggested she might want to do some investigative journalism on her post.
She said if Facebook says it’s fake she will believe that.
Many other commenters thought it didn’t look right.
Someone posted a diagram of the planets which showed the correct locations and names of the planets and moons and said that the Jupiter moons had moved in the 12 hour difference between the US and Australia. Thus solving the difference.
The diagram was correct and it did not match at all the fake photograph.
The news reporter then declared that her post was correct and not photoshopped.
I some how felt I was watching the news media world right now in miniature.
She shared the attached photo. Some other friends have also shared the same photo. It was supposedly taken in Australia.
It is obviously to me a photoshopped composite.
I commented that it was photoshopped.
She denied it and said it was real. ( anything a journalist posts must be real )
I suggested she might want to do some investigative journalism on her post.
She said if Facebook says it’s fake she will believe that.
Many other commenters thought it didn’t look right.
Someone posted a diagram of the planets which showed the correct locations and names of the planets and moons and said that the Jupiter moons had moved in the 12 hour difference between the US and Australia. Thus solving the difference.
The diagram was correct and it did not match at all the fake photograph.
The news reporter then declared that her post was correct and not photoshopped.
I some how felt I was watching the news media world right now in miniature.
- Tue Dec 22, 2020 10:06 am
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- Topic: Jupiter and Saturn Conjunction
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Re: Jupiter and Saturn Conjunction
2000mm F8 with a cell phone held behind the lens and snapped. Not ideal. Going to try again tonight if it’s clear. I have a Canon actually attached to the big lens ( actually a telescope) but it takes some computer work to get it on line. I’ll post those later.
- Sun Dec 20, 2020 9:35 pm
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Re: Jupiter and Saturn Conjunction
Tonight at 6:00pm.