well hello there everybody. it's been ages yet again. we've had such crap skies
here solid great blanket like it's been week after week but finally we have an
opening today and a bit of a Sun. I haven't seen the Sun in gosh I couldn't
tell you how long well over a week I'm sure but it is so low in the horizon
there's just nowhere in the backyard that I can go to be able to get a clean
shot of it because of the branches of the trees so anyway here we are at 9:47
a.m,. on I don't know what day of the week it is. it might be Friday December
7th 2018 up here in Northeastern Ohio
and we are on the Nikon p1000 camera and right now I'm just using the two B&W
neutral density filters for 16 stops of light. yes I know it's not recommended
but ah sorry I forgot to take it off of uh autofocus let me do that real quick
Okay I'm back. I put it on a manual focus but it's not going to help because we got
tree branches in the way, there is supposed to be a sunspot down on the lower right
I believe unless it's a decayed already
anyway sorry about that there's not much we can see because of the trees but
we've got something at least it's better than just the gray blanket. Now today is
the new moon day and the SkySafari Pro app shows that just to the left of the
Sun and then we have some of the planets, uh, up to the right of the Sun, it'd be
what Jupiter Mercury and Venus but of course we can't see any of them in the
glare of the daytime Sun. but there we go a little bit of something, a little bit
of blue, a treed Sun, some clouds and some wet snow
it's 29 degrees here so I'm not gonna stay out long and especially since we
can't get anything showing on the surface of the Sun like a sunspot but
for folks who do have a clear nighttime sky you might be able to see the comet
46 P that green one in the evening sky after the sun sets, probably facing south
east I guess maybe east southeast it'll be heading up from to the right of
Orion I believe the closest approach to earth
will be December 17th so it'll be heading up to the right of Orion and I believe
to the right of Aldebaran, and heading up towards the Pleiades and it'll be to the
left of the Pleiades, so it's not looking good for here as usual, but I hope
wherever you are you have better viewing than I do
so y'all take care, be safe, and and I hope you're all doing well. take care now
bye from Ohio