The Moon...........and friend?

[Martin]

- taken this afternoon at 5pm from a viewpoint in Sussex...........
There was a very new moon - with a friend! - not a trick of the light, or a speck - was there for at least 45 minutes before lost to cloud.....Planet/asteroid/space junk??????

[Magpie]

Well, at 6.00 last night, I was looking at the moon with a star next to it, in the same position... I'm sure the the moon here(from NZ) looked the opposite to that though - unless you reversed the photo somehow?

[chadspad]

My hubby, a very dedicated amateur astronomer, tells me it is Venus

[the.fee.fairy]

its not the little green men come to take the green people to a lush green planet then?!

[Thomzo]

Whatever it is, it's a great photo.

Zoe

[Martin]

thanks for that! - prefer the thought of the planet of luuurve to that of space junk any day! (or Bally Branson in another balloon!)
ps the picture is absolutely as taken, and the right way up! - it's the centre of a shot taken with a 450mm tele lens

[Shirley]

That's a fantastic shot Martin!

[Martin]

a lot of it's down to the camera - it's a Dynax 5d with image stabilisation - as the focal length is different from the film version, I used a 75-300mm "35mm" zoom, which is effectively 450mm at the long end on a digi - just rested my elbows on top of a tank, and left the camera to it..........
I was a dreadful cynic about image stabilisation being an unnecessary gimmick - it really does work very well - all of the evening shots I did of the turbines last year were using the same camera/lens, all hand-held, and some are now being used by the manufacturer for publicity. Without stabilisation, it would have been a tripod job.
It's a great shame, Minolta had developed a superb camera system, but I believe it lives on - Sony bought the technology from them, and their new image stabilised camera looks like the result!

[Tigerhair]

beautiful

[Jack]

Gidday

Hey Martin, just whatch out for that full moon. It might give you a tic.

[ina]

a lot of it's down to the camera

You've still got to point it in the right direction... Really nice shot.

[The Chili Monster]

Here'sa pic of the moon and venus, taken on the same day as Martin's, but from the UAE.

Although I must say Martin's photo is much better!