All righty here we are on, I think it's Thursday December 13 2018
it's now 4:11 p.m. up here in Northeastern Ohio and we have a new
gadget here, we're trying the SkyWatcher AZ-GTI, a telescope mount with the L
L bracket on it for a camera, and I think I have it aligned now for the moon.
over here in the southeast sky. oops, try to brighten it up a bit and it should be
keeping the moon in place I do believe
there's not much to see here. I need to get some video of the gadget, the... the
telescope mount it's not an equatorial mount. I could rig one up if I get a
wedge and update the firmware but so far I don't believe I'm going to, but anyway
so let's go out, now. I'm touching the camera, cuz I didn't bring the remote out here.
and move the shutter speed, now let's go over towards where the, whoops, I mean
it's on six speed, put it up to nine so to go faster. it's a noisy bugger but
now let me change that shutter speed more, and let me see, go down and from
this position we can't really see the Sun just a glare there but with this app
then if I pushed where Saturn should be if that alignment was right for the moon
go to
and basically that's where Saturn should be if we could see it
but let's go back to the moon
and see if it lined back up, and it did. Cool.
Well hello there everybod,y here we
are a Thursday evening, December 13th 2018, up here in Northeastern Ohio and we
finally have a break in our sky and we're looking at a 36% lit moon over
there and we're on a new gadget which I'm gonna have to show you on, in the
daytime but it's an electronic telescope mount, the SkyWatcher AZ-GTI. it's nice
and small and light and I have it on the Benro carbon fiber tripod. anyway let
me see here. but anyway with this telescope mount we should be able to
keep the object centered in there. I'm using an iPhone, the, let me move this
around a bit. whoops wrong way. well hang tight, I gotta figure this damn thing out
grrr. I have such a hard time with down as up and up is down with these
with these controls
all right, whoops, that was me hitting the camera. okay so here we are zoomed in all the way. I'm
not touching the tripod now, so it should be tracking it and that will stay right
in frame. I don't have the monitor hooked up so I can't see too well, but anyway so
since we have this pretty much aligned let's have it take us over to Mars.
Okay there we go. We finally have Mars centered, well kind of
but it should be standing still instead of scooting sideways or going
down that is. now the moon's down about the five o'clock position from Mars
there's not too much I can see out here in my light polluted sky, but that's cool
so it pretty much stayed there
now
I'll try to go back to the moon, see if it finds it, there it is
yeah it's a noisy bugger but
All right, try to get it centered again, and now try to go in
well doggone it. when I push the right buttons then the damn thing
goes out of frame. So I have to play bouncy with the damn controls here
oh well. I'll figure it out, so maybe if I press the buttons and then
tap it when I'm where I want to be, it'll stop moving around. I don't know
all right my favorite light beam area. let me turn this upside down and see if I
can work it that way. No.
okay so we have a standing still moon now. that's quite cool. Alrighty, I guess
that'll do it for now. it's flippin' cold out here, so it's probably below freezing
now I'm not sure, but, yeah we'll show this set up in the daytime. it's quite
cool. a lot lighter than the video head that I had on here. That thing was massive
and too big and bulky for this smaller camera
it couldn't counterbalance with it. Anyway isn't that cool? Just stays right there.
So someday I'll get a grip on the controls and we'll get a better video
out to ya. so I hope everybody's doing fine. it's been ages yet again because of
our weather and sky up here, so I hope wherever you are
all's right in your world. okay y'all take care now. it's 841 p.m.. good night now.