Alrighty, I think we're ready here. Well hello everyone. I hope you're doing okay
we had some storms roar in last night and and really socked us with lightning
and downpours of rain wind all that good stuff and it was cloudy all day long
until tonight and I guess those storms were the remnants of that hurricane
Barry from the Gulf so with what we had I can't imagine what the folks down
south went through but anyway today is Wednesday the 17th of July 2019, it's now
9:33 p.m. up here in Northeastern Ohio. So I haven't set this up yet
so we'll try to do that and maybe do a fast-forward here. I don't think the
video portion here is gonna pick up very well but over to the lower left would be
Saturn and Jupiter's about the only thing I can see on the monitor here
so let's get this set up first. I'll be right back
okay there's our alignment, let's check our settings first, heh, we the ISO up
real high but that's so we can see the moons of
Jupiter, and we'll go in further, that's the max zoom this camera offers
so we have three of the moons of Jupiter out in front and then the planet itself
and off to the, let's try to find it, there it is
that would be Callisto out there, way out there. alright so we're gonna change up
and try to get the bands of Jupiter in. I shall be right back
hope it comes out alright, doggonit, I forgot what camera I was on, I'm gonna
have to try that again. I thought I was on the Canon and I wasn't. All right.
I accidentally turned the camera off, so let me do my thing here. okay so there's
our settings, and we'll turn them off. I'm also going to do another start and stop
here on the recording so I can get the short video clips and try to do a
stacking with them so I'll be right back again. Alrighty, I'm back with taking
those short video clips for stacking and we are on the Nikon P1000 camera tonight
recording onto that Atomos Ninja Flame and using the Sky-Watcher telescope
mount to track the planets. now the only thing I can see in my sky is Jupiter
and barely Saturn, so we're gonna pull back, I'm going to change up the ISO and
try to get like Saturn or the trees or something but
so we're gonna have this mount take us to the general area of where Saturn
should be. okay so that one lone light up at the top right is Jupiter, bottom right
is somebody's security light (street light) and there we go we have a little triangle there
with a couple stars by Saturn
all right so we can't see Titan even with the ISO up all the way so let's try
to get Saturn in. just a second
Alrighty, there we go. I'm gonna take a few short video clips so we can do a
stacking and I'll be right back. okay and we're back again after getting that
short video clip. I did take some pictures with the Canon 80D right
before using the Nikon, (oh my), for the video portion so um we'll probably put those
pictures in here too but that's gonna be it, the moon hasn't risen yet or if it
has it's not above my trees yet so and there's nothing out shining out here
except some lightning bugs and these two guys not in my sky that I can see by eye so
so it's a really muggy night over here not surprising with the storms blowing in
from the Gulf, and it is a summertime too so that makes sense
try to get both the planets to show up and now I can see Saturn on the monitor
but when we go in the house I have a feeling it'll be too hard to see but
anyway, that's gonna be it for now. it's now 9:49 p.m. up here and I'm gonna wish
you all a wonderful night and a great Thursday ahead, is that, yeah tomorrow's
Thursday. so please be safe wherever you are and thanks for everything. thanks for
taking the time to come out and watch the sky with me. we don't have much else
to see here because the only other planets I can get are Venus and Mars and
they're in the daytime sky or when the Sun does go down the planets are too low on
the horizon for me. I have trees and houses in the way.
So that's about it in my late polluted skies over here, so I hope you have
better viewing conditions than I do and all is right in your world. Good night for now.
Bye.