Well hello there. We're back again after being covered in
a gray blanket and all that good stuff up here in Northeastern Ohio, but anyway
today is August 28th 2019. I'm not sure what day of the week it is maybe
Wednesday. we'll say, we'll take a guess, and it's 9:07 p.m. up here, anyway I've
been out here probably about, oh I don't know, maybe an hour taking pictures on
the other camera on the Canon 80D, so knowing me I'll probably put those
pictures in here in the video. I'm outside right now I'm taking video so
you never know what's gonna happen once I go in check the footage and process
everything and all that good stuff. oh by the way I I finally caved in and got
Lightroom to process the still photos and I was having so much trouble with
On1Photo it was always freezing my Mac constantly and I really like that
program but so I broke down and I did get Lightroom and I just hate paying a
monthly fee for something, for software, it just rankles me
but anyway, so like I said I probably am throwing in some pictures in here, oh and
by the way before we even go up to Jupiter and Saturn there are a couple of
comets heading towards the Sun I think it's called 322P, they're approaching
the Sun now and I think by Friday they're gonna be doing a slingshot
around the moon and by the looks of the SkySafari Pro app, I saw 3 tails so
I'm guessing that they're broken up and heading towards the Sun. I think it said
those Comets take a four year trip around and, but anyway it looks really
cool on the SkySafari Pro app, so I wanted to include that in here too
so anyway after the still photos from the Canon we're now over onto the Nikon
P1000 camera and recording onto the Atomos Ninja Flame
and there we go with the big guy up there, if I recall correctly
Callisto is out there to the far right and IO is the one closest to Jupiter
tonight, that is a cool shot, it's coming in quite well, okay there we go
so we have our clips done for stacking to try to help bring out the details of
both the moons around Jupiter and Jupiter itself and if I'm not mistaken I
think we have the Great Red Spot tonight in the lower left-hand corner. it's
getting harder and harder to get a good capture of Jupiter right now and if I
said Saturn before excuse me, but that's a cool look and Jupiter is over in the
southwest and Saturn who we're going to next is over in the southern sky, so that's
good enough there for the big guy, and we're gonna have the SkyWatcher Mount
take us over the Saturn
or get us there in the general direction
so that very faint late that's on the screen, well I'll probably overlay a
picture on here so we know what we're looking at but, okay so there we go
we've got her in. Saturn and it's cool rings. I have to admit these two planets
are my favorites probably because you can actually see some details of say the
bands and the Great Red Spot on Jupiter and these rings around Saturn, so with
the equipment I have you can't really see much of anything of Venus and Mars
except a blob, an orange blog for Mars, and Venus we can get in phases like
the crescent moon, but not right now because they're still in the daytime sky
now I'm not sure how the pictures are gonna come out after processing in
Lightroom and all that, but I'm gonna try to do a good job, and if I happen to
overlay a picture of my landscape of the night sky here and have these two big
planets sitting on top of it, it's not true to life, it's just a bit of
creativity, but anyway the batteries are running down here on my Ninja Flame cuz
I forgot to change them and we're gonna have to call it an early night
so whatever day of the week it is I'm gonna wish you a great one and a
wonderful new one ahead. So y'all take care and the three of us are gonna
wave goodbye from Northeastern Ohio. It's now 9:24 pm.
Good night everybody.