I did attempt to capture the full moon setting over the water but I was a day late. It was a bit too bright to capture the image I would have liked, oh well! This was a composite of four shots around 7:00 at 3 minutes apart.
While in Santa Monica vacationing I managed to get Jupiter and Mars in the same FOV with my Canon EOS T3i (600D) and a 200mm Lens on the morning of 8-19-24. They were closest between the 14th and 15th. The sky conditions were not ideal, lots of light pollution but Jupiter was easily seen as was Mars. Jupiter's four moons (Galilan) were in an alignment starting from the bottom left Callisto, Io, Jupiter , Europa, and finally Ganymede on the top right. Mars was quite bright as well as it will be approaching Earth, thus appearing larger and brighter. The spikes around Jupiter and Mars are caused by aperture adjuster. Had I planned this better I would have kept the aperture open and used step down rings.
It was finally a clear day and I was set up from the previous night of imaging. I was mainly doing observing, however, I did capture this image. I would had done a video but we are getting ready to travel so there was not much time. It looked stupendous live especially the active spot regions and the detached prominence!
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