Alrighty, well hello there - here we are on a Thursday June 25th, I think, 2020 at
10:36 p.m. up here in Northeastern Ohio, and we have a bit of a yellow moon
in our cloudy skies. so the crescent is about 25 percent lit
over in the West, about oh 20 some degrees up above the horizon and we are
on the Canon EOS R camera with the Tamron 18 to 400 millimeter lens and the
Kenko 2x teleconverter. I had to resort to this setup because something happened
with my Nikon p1000, that poor thing seems to be knackered. I was out last
night trying to get footage with the p1000 and it just would not work properly
the focus and everything, manual focus, oh my gosh, so I don't know if
something happened after the battery was exhausted and I don't know, but it was
acting up, so we're out here with this, now we are at the full 400 millimeters
with that 2x teleconverter and we're using 4k so we're at the crop mode which
is about 1.75, and about the only other thing I can do to go in further is to
use the focus, so that's a 10x focus, and so it doesn't get you in quite as far as the
P1000, it's more like the three thousand millimeters times 2x that's on
the Nikon, it goes up to 4x so it's about twelve thousand millimeters on the Nikon
when you're at full zoom, so this would be about six thousand millimeters which
should be more but, anyway
let's stroll around, I don't have the best alignment so it's drifting a bit
and go up further
up to the tip-top
it's quite cool
yeah so this is not the ideal setup but you work with what you got
and there we go with our look at the 25% moon, and at the moment my settings are
1/30th for the shutter, F/13 for the aperture, that's because you have the
teleconverter on there and you lose two stops of light, and we're ISO 400
Now, 1, 2, 3
different picture Styles um, that's User Defined 1 that I have set up
User defined 2 & 3 which is less contrast and might work better so it's
not quite as yellow, okay, so we'll check it out with the less contrast for that picture style
and take a stroll around
and up to the tippy top again
all right let me get a clip of that real quick
Oh, I always seem to forget to do this so I'll try to take a video with my iPhone
so we can see the setup, I always mean to do it but more often than not I forget
so there's our setup with the dual camera bar, and the lovely Atomos Ninja Flame
monitor/recorder, the 7-inch one, with our Tascam mic on top, and our Tascam audio recorder
our handset and our SkyWatcher tracking mount and then over to see the Canon EOS R
camera with that Tamron 18-400 lens and the Kenko teleconverter
at the moment it's at 18 millimeters, let me move it up, so there it is extended
out to 400
and there we go, that's our setup. I'll try to include this here if the video
even comes out. I'll probably be disappointed, not even use it again
oh well, so even if I don't I'm gonna wish you all
a wonderful weekend, in thought and spirit, all right, y'all take care
bye from Ohio, it's now 11:05 p.m. up here, good night now
and there we go with the 18 millimeters, well times 2 - because of the
teleconverter and we have the ISO at 16,000, 1/8th shutter speed to be able
to see a little bit of the trees
that's 20,000
12,500, okay, 16
now Jupiter and Saturn should have already risen, they might be above the
trees but it's too cloudy over in my southeast sky, so there's nothing showing
over there, and again we're facing West for the setting moon, okay, there we go
I changed up the menu settings so we could see the information here on the Atomos
Ninja Flame recorder, and that's me with a little penlight flashlight
quite cool
well I saw flash over there to the right of the moon
sorry this is difficult to do here
oh, there's a star at the one o'clock position
two o'clock, trying to get a bit of Earth shine there, and it's not coming in near as
nice as I would like, that's a shame, but at least now we can see some of the clouds
well I was hoping this setup would work alright, um, but
alrighty, there we go
sorry about the quality but when one camera's knackered ya try something else
Alrighty, there we go with this unusual setup, there's not much else
to see out here, it's quite dark out and there's a lot of clouds, so there's
really no stars showing, stars or planets, so that'll have to do
anyway, hope you're all doing well and you have a great weekend upcoming here
so have fun and be safe
alright it's now 10:46 p.m. up here in Northeastern Ohio
good night now