Well hello there, here we are on Tuesday the last day of June 2020 at 8:58 p.m.
up here in Northeastern Ohio, and we have an 80% moon up there, pretty high up
in the southern sky, now tonight we're trying out something different
we have the Canon EOS R again but we're using the kit lens that comes
with the 80D which is the EF-S 55 to 250 lens and we have that Kenko 2x
teleconverter on there so it should make it 110 to 500, and at the moment we're at 55 x 2
and now we're at the 250 which is 500, and the only other thing we can do
is use the 10x focusing zoom to get in a bit closer
now it's not coming in as well as I would like, as usual
you hear me say that a lot huh
but we'll stroll around here
you know I might go in and go get the Tamron lens, the 18 400, and put the
teleconverter on there, I kind of thought this would come out a bit better but hmm
I'm not real thrilled with that, all right, I will try to do a stacking and
see how that comes out but I'll be right back
let me go get the other lens, hang on now
okay there we go we're back out with the
Tamron 18 to 400 and the Kenko 2x teleconverter, and so we're at 36 right now
now we can go in further, but I have to adjust the focus, so hang on now
okay, there we go, so it gets us in further, that should be, so it should be about
8,000 millimeters
and we'll stroll around here yet again
that is such a cool area up there to the top left
okay let me do that again
I had to darken it up so we could see better
and head on over to our mesa
and question mark, and those letters over there
I know, they all have their own proper names but I like mine
yeah I just wanted to test all this out again with the various lenses the 70 to
200 with the extenders on there, it's like I told you it was uh 13 inches long
and it's heavy, it was four and a half pounds, so I was searching for something lighter
I'd love to have that Sigma 60 to 600 again but that thing's six pounds
I had that last year, it was a really nice lens but just way too heavy for me
I still want to get it of course
okay I'm gonna get a clip of this and I'll be right back
okay there we go, we'll try to do a stacking with that Lynkeos app for Mac
see how it comes out, and we'll go back down to the 18 millimeters so we
can see a bit of a landscape, a few bits of the trees with that pretty white moon up there
and since it's so light outside there's nothing else up here to see except our
washed out sky, and if I remember I'll try to show set up here and I'll throw
in a clip from my iPhone of the setup with the Canon kit lens, that one is so light
the 55 to 250 and that Kenko teleconverter, my goodness, the monster
of the 70 to 200 with the extenders on it is uh four and a half pounds so it's real heavy
and then the other set up here with the Tamron lens, it's still lighter
than that 70 to 200 but
and sorry I hope I'm not boring everybody with just moon shots but
the three planets I want to get are taking their journey at the wrong
time of day for me, wrong time of night, I like to start filming about now after
the Sun goes down, so I might have to wait about another month maybe a few
weeks before I'll be able to catch them over in the southeast sky
it's just getting too hard for me to get up in the middle of the night to come out - Oh well
anyway like I said I hope I'm not boring you with these uh moon shots
anyway, okay, that's enough of me rambling on
alright so our 80% moon and our Canon camera says goodbye for now
y'all take care, it's now 9:27 p.m. up here in Northeastern Ohio
bye now