Well hello there. We're back again, I think it's been what
three nights in a row? maybe, that's pretty cool and I have no
idea when the weather's gonna turn this sky and not let us see anything so
we're out here again on this Thursday September 5th, I think, 2019, it's now 9:38pm
and I've been out here for about an hour taking photos on the other
camera on the Canon 80D using two different lenses, that I wasn't real
happy with the new Canon ones I got but I'm trying to give him a fair shake so
so I'll check all the images in Lightroom, process them from the Canon 17-55mm
that's an f/2.8, and the Tamron 18-400mm, my good old standby, f/3.5, anyway so
we'll put those pictures in here at the beginning probably and maybe throughout
and we've got a cool alignment tonight, we have a 49% moon and Jupiter's right next
door about the 7 o'clock position from it, but since we were centered on Jupiter
we're gonna head over there first, um, I do need to change something up and I'll be
right back. Okay tonight we have two of the planet moons around Jupiter real close
to it Ganymede's over to the right and Io is off
to the left and the other two are out and about somewhere, I think Europa is
out in the front here to the bottom right and uh Callisto's either not in
the shot or
but I'll be right back here in a second
there we go
get this clip about, I think it was fifteen seconds now
it's a noisy one
probably military
okay there we go, we're back and we have Jupiter coming in, the bands are coming
in pretty well for being so low on the horizon, and it's quite watery but
now I don't think the video is gonna pick it up but I can see on the monitor, I can
see that Ganymede and IO flashing, the ones that are on opposite sides of the
planet there, but we see the bands of Jupiter tilted to the right as it
heads down for the evening
and that's a good look at the big guy
now there's a cool shot
our tilted moon and Jupiter off to the left, cool, and so since they're next-door neighbor's here
okay there we go we have half our moon there, well 49% lit tonight and since
it is pretty low on the horizon it's going to come in quite watery, but
well we didn't get that cool flyby like we did last night, that bird was so cool
but let's just stroll around real quick and see what's up
oh joy, dogs again
yeah it's
not the greatest time of day to try to get the moon and Jupiter because they are
so low and that means we have to cut through a lot of atmosphere here
try to darken up our light beam area
now check out the rest, okay
and that should do it for that big guy
and we'll get our full-on look here, hopefully I'll have a stacked image to
put on the right side, and what that is is taking a clip from the video
footage here and stacking it in a program, the one I use for a Mac is
called Lynkeos, I don't know if that's how you pronounce it but that's how I do it
and there's other stacking programs that people in Windows use, and I have a hard
time with the stacking so, trying to tweak it and, oh my goodness, but I do what I'm
able to, anyway, so that's a good enough look there
okay where's Saturn, I can't find it, all right there she is, she, he, it, whatever that
bright yellow object is over there
and I'll be right back
alrighty, there's my other favorite planet, our ringed pal over there in the South
heading towards the Southwest.
it's such a cool sky tonight
that huge halo ring around the moon, around the half moon, and Jupiter right
next door to it, shining very brightly. I lost sight of Antares, it must have
dipped below the trees already, but that should give us a good look at all three
of them and it's gonna take me forever and a day to go through all the pictures
I took and and the video footage here but I hope to have a nice one put up for
y'all, anyway I hope everybody out on the coast is safe and you're keeping dry
there's no damage out there and that everybody's having a great Thursday
night, Friday's upon some of you, and who knows, Saturday for some of you folks
down under I don't know, maybe, anyway I'm gonna wish you all great night and a
wonderful whatever day of the week it is for ya. alrighty, good night from
Northeastern Ohio on this cool and mainly quiet night, no ruckus tonight
let's keep it that way, all right, take care now, good night