Well hello there. We're finally back. Here we are on Sunday night October 13th 2019
at 7:30 p.m. up here in Northeastern Ohio and I've been out for the last
couple days trying to get footage but I've been having one issue after another
electronic glitches, technical ones, old lady glitches, the whole gambit and
though we're gonna try again for a third night in a row, so at the moment I have
two cameras running, the Canon 80D is trying to get video footage, I don't know
how well that's gonna come out. I no longer have the 90D, I had to send it
back which really bummed me out it had a stuck red pixel in the 4k video
portion and it just drove me nuts so within that 30-day window I had to send
it back and it just, I love that camera, man, mm-hmm, but I just could not accept that
not for a brand-new camera sorry and I did want a replacement but I don't
think that part of the order went through so we'll just have to wait and
make sure all the money gets put back in refunded and go from there
so again, like I said the 80D is running a wide field of view but it doesn't have very good
low-light so I don't know how well that's going to come out over there
probably not well I had the ISO on 6400, I moved it up
to 8,000 it's probably gonna make it way worse, but, anyway, now let's get over to
the Nikon, now tonight we have three of Jupiter's moons should be showing
Io should be in front of the planet so I don't know if we'll be able to see a
shadow of it or not once we change the exposure to try to get the bands and
detail of the planet in so we'll give that a go here
now tonight there should be the Great Red Spot showing in our general direction
oh boy, it's not coming in good, I tried to get the focus in before we even started but
yeah I can't even make out the details here, okay so if I include the clip here
if it comes out on the other camera we can see the landscape and where the
planets are in the sky and we can see how low Jupiter is as it heads towards
that tree, but I was really hoping it would come in better because we have
that Great Red Spot tonight and IO up above it
anyway I think that's gonna be it for poor Jup. all right let's do this and
try to head over to Saturn, now tonight we have a full moon rising, I don't see
it yet but it should be up six degrees above the horizon but I don't see
anything over there in the east yet but then I have houses and trees in the way
okay so Jupiter's eighteen degrees up above the horizon and Saturn is 26° so
that's what we're gonna try to go to, there we go, let me mess around here and try
to get to get Jup, not Jupiter but Saturn in
alrighty, so I think we have clips of everything, the moons of Jupiter, Jupiter
itself which I don't think it's gonna come out very well
now Saturn, oh and I do see the moon peaking in between those tree branches
over in the east
and I'm gonna have to do a complete realignment cuz I'm gonna have to move
us for that but it is so cool to be able to get the planets here with the Nikon
P1000, with any camera that has a telephoto lens on it, it can be hard to center them
and get it focused and, it's a challenge, and I know it's not telescope quality
but still cool what we can capture, and that should be a good look here at our ringed
partner, our banded one and ringed one, oh, and for those that are interested
I believe it's next week when we should have a good show of meteor showers over
in the southern sky when Orion is up Orion and Sirius. We'll be going through
the debris trail of Halley's Comet. you know what's funny about that? I grew up
probably for the first 50 some years of my life calling it 'Hay-ley's Comet, I mean
that's all we ever knew it as and I don't know it could've been about 15
years ago when I heard someone call it 'Hal-ley's Comet and I was like what what
what are they talking about it's Hay-ley's Comet anyway
it'll be in the early morning sky
probably between I don't know 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. might be a good time to see it
next week so if you look up towards the constellation of Orion you might be able
to see some meteors shooting by, okay
all right we have to go relocate so
one camera down, up, whatever
lets get this other one setup
there we go
all righty we're all set up here, I think we have the tracking situated on our
full moon rising in Northeastern Ohio, it's up about eight degrees above the
horizon and it's over an East heading towards the southeast
while Jupiter and Saturn were over in the south-southwest, so we can see how watery
it is because it's so low in the sky, now I'm surprised there's not a whole bunch
of bats and birds flying across it, it'd be so cool to see a flock of geese in a
v-formation we got one once before, what was it a
couple months ago, I forget when it was
I suppose I could try to go in but there's really no sense in it because
you can't see any details of the craters and you can't see the depth of 'em or
it's more of a dull view, I don't know, I don't know what you'd call it
now I would like to try to get it in a bit better, this is gonna be a shaky
process though
all right there we go, I think we have a better focus now
it was so weird those few nights where we couldn't focus at all on it
it was driving me nuts, I didn't know if there was something wrong with my camera or what
because we didn't have any clouds in the sky and it was up higher than I think
Saturn was at the time so it probably would've been up about 26, 28, 30 degrees
above the horizon so yeah I don't know what was going on with it back then
come on, this isn't fair, I want some flybys tonight guys
boy that sounds like a high flyer up there doesn't it
I can see on the one camera it's getting close to the tree branches
but this other camera that has the full look it's over a couple feet away from
the other so it has a bit better angle
anyway it's nice to get out here now before it gets too cold, last night it
got down to 33 degrees here, and I was out taking footage, but oh man, that was a
technical nightmare last night so, and just for reference I did uh, I was having
so much trouble with the Orion SynScan handset, that was one of the issues of
last night just one of them though, and so tonight I am trying the phone app and
it's working okay
but it's gonna be hard to use something like this in wintertime when you have
gloves on and I like the tactile feel the buttons but, now that's my second
handset and I'm just not happy with the quality
well I guess nobody is gonna do a flyby tonight
figures I got it in pretty good
and boy I do have a lot of light pollution around here
well doesn't help with the full moon but, and I can't see any stars up there
I know the camera picks up so much more but it has better eyes than I do
now tonight there is a large halo ring around the moon it's very very pretty
and it's quite round too unlike the oval one we had last week
well, I'm gonna call it a bust for a fly-by-night, that's disappointing guys, come on
well maybe something did fly by while I was looking around, we just have a lot of
footage to go through, anyway, that should do it on this Sunday evening up here in
Northeastern Ohio, so I'm gonna wave goodbye to you and hope you have a great
start to your new week, and that y'all stay safe and warm too, or cool if you
need to be wherever you are in the world anyway
waving goodbye from up here it's now 8:04 p.m. bye now