Perhaps because of my bad English I have not understood completely the
explanation of the beautiful image.
However in my opinion the photo doesn¹t represent a single sequence of
photos but separate sequences of images of the Sun, of the Moon, of
Venus and Jupiter while they are rising and in the following instants.
Subsequently the photos of these four sequences have been overlapped
and fused in an single image, together with the photo of the landscape.
In other words the author has made : a sequence for the Sun after dawn
with very short exposure times ; a sequence for the Moon in a period
at least 1.5-3 hours before down ; a sequence for Venus few hours
before the rising of the Sun and one for Jupiter while it was rising
in a whatever time of the night.
I understood that the image was a fusion of more than one series of
exposures. The sentence that led me to believe the Moon, Venus and
Jupiter might have been in near conjunction was this: "Exposures were
taken every six minutes and digitally superposed on an image taken from
the same location at sunrise." That weakly implies that there were only
two series - one of the Sun, and one of the other bodies, all together.
- I don't remember such a narrow conjunction among Venus, Moon and
Jupiter, but this perhaps is caused by my age (not too young :-) ).
Toward the end of the sequence the three bodies are at a distance of a
small fraction of the Lunar diameter : obviously in the case that
there was a single sequence.
That conjunction, or lack of one, is the key!
Thanks,
Dave
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