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Location: Austin, TXDate: 22 Apr 2009 at 5:20am CDT
A crescent Venus about to be occulted by a crescent Moon.
Gotta love the Canon 600mm F4.0L
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Amazing! What aperature and shutter speed? Is this one photo or two combined?
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It's a single shot (cropped about 50%). It was shot at 1/60 sec at f6.3 using a 600mm f4.0L Canon lens (no extender).
About an hour later the moon occulted Venus, and a local Austin photographer got an even better picture on the local news.
--Mick
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Well this is still an amazing shot
(nice lens too! I want one 
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Wow, time to change the desktop of my PC again! The current one is your shuttle shot
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Thanks. Maybe I should photoshop in a little "Discovery" spaceship from 2001
It was a spectacular site. Frustratingly the local news didn't run my shot because some other photographer got a better one 
--Mick
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i loves it so much. the moon is a power symbol for me and i love seeing it this way <3
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I am so glad you got to capture this one! I was outside with my binoculars during the entire special event! What a great morning with completely clear skies for our Moon to overlap Venus! 
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Your camera is fantastic and the shot is beautifully composed. I took a similar shot with a Canon Powershot S5, the results weren't nearly as clear or defined. Fantastic work here.
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I got the EOS 600mm f4.0L to shoot the space shuttle last year [link] and it was worth it. Now it's mainly useful for nature photography and the occasional celestial phenomenon.
Thanks for the comment
--Mick
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Thats quite the lens attachment. XD
I'm hoping to get myself an SLR one of these days, I had originally intended that but found that my photographic skills needed improvement before I could justify spending 1K on equipment.
The S5 is an adequate mid-range camera, I think im beginning to find my feet with it.
Thanks for the response
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My best advice is to get a used DSLR that has a manual setting (something like a 20D goes on eBay for $100 [link] ) plus a zoom lens (again eBay $82 [link] ).
That gives you the ability to learn about exposure and framing without spending the $800 it takes to get a new Rebel.
Canon and Nikon have the largest families of product... pick the brand that most of your friends have -- that way you can borrow lenses and attachments
You can get comfortable with ISO, f-stop, shutter speed and depth-of-field for only a few hundred. New cameras come out so rapidly these days that the "gently used" stuff is really good.
--Mick
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Thanks for that advice, very much appreciated! Sorry for the late reply, was kinda busy the last few days.
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