Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

Sometimes simple astrophotography can yield cool results. The moon and Venus were somewhat close tonight, so I put my camera on the tripod and shot a bunch of pictures. As I took the pictures, I thought, what the hell, I’ll make a movie.

Each picture has an exposure time of 10 seconds at f/2.2 taken with my Sony DSC-F828. I used Quicktime Pro to open the image sequence and compress the pictures into a 640×480 H.264 movie. It lasts about 6 seconds, but took me a little over an hour to shoot, with an exposure every minute.

The Moon and Venus setting in the west, H.264 Quicktime movie, 212k, :06

The bright object on top is the moon. It was actually a crescent, but because of the 10 second exposure time, it appears overexposed. Below and slightly to the right is Venus.