Well hello there. It's a Thursday evening,
no it's not, it's Tuesday sorry
September 18th maybe 2018 and it's
7:40 p.m. up here in Northeastern Ohio
and we have a 69% moon up there over in
the south, and I don't want to spend a
lot of time on it because over by that
tree we're waiting for Jupiter to come
up.
Jupiter's been so low on the horizon for
me that probably within a couple days
it's gonna dip below the trees and I
won't have a chance to see it again
until next year when it begins rising in
the East, maybe around May, something like
that. Anyway it's still a little bit too
light out for it so lets go on up and
take a look at the the moon here, um, just
to know I have it on the lowest number
aperture and lowest shutter which is one
over 60, slowest I mean, and we're in movie
manual mode and manual focus, all that
good stuff.  I'm not sure what iso I have
it at maybe about 200 I guess, 2 to 400
I'm not sure, I forgot to look. Okay this
uh, on the recording it doesn't show
what the, how far zoomed in we are
millimeter wise, so we'll just take a brief glance
here and inch up a little bit in zoom
bottom edge is just so cool
okay there we go
That should bring it into focus better and
I did up the shutter speed to 1 over
160 so it wouldn't be washed out and the
aperture automatically goes to f/8 for
when you zoom in this far, but anyway, all
right, so I did say I was at max zoom right?
oh yeah that reminds me, um, wonder if I
should lighten it again
I forget what I had it on the other
night. The monitor tends to make it look
lighter than what it does when we go in
so I'm gonna keep this way though for a
moment. I want to check out our Mesa there and
our light beam area. It's bright
tonight isn't it
I know what I missed because we're
zoomed in further than the p900 goes
is our question mark which is over here,
whoops, okay there it is. yeah there's our
question mark. Hey, it looks like one to
me, what can I say. Let's go up at the top
real quick. Well she appears to be
scooting sideways huh and not rising or
maybe a little bit of both huh. Get to
the area here I call the boneyard.
I don't know why, just reminds me of a...
 like the Giants and their bone
field out there
but anyway while we have the time here -
Hello everybody!
Over the last couple days there's been
quite a few hundred new people that have
come into my channel, and well first off,
we'll say hello. And many of you don't
know me so uh I'm just an old lady up
here in Northeastern Ohio who enjoys sky
watching and I am awake and very
untrusting of official sources
I do take an alternate view most of the
time and have a very conspiratorial...is that
the right word? Mind. Throughout the years
I've captured some amazing stuff up
there some unknown things zipping around
but to tell you the truth those are rare
occurrences they don't happen every
night and all that and I am just an
amateur and teaching myself the cameras
and so an amateur photographer amateur
astronomer. Hey I'm just a Sky
Watcher what can I say. Aw, come on Jup
where are ya, bud. 
All righty, I do see Jupiter so we're
gonna take a little trip further away
I wish I would have changed the iso
before I started but I'm gonna back us
up here
All right so there's our moon in the
south
Okay so over here in the southwest we do
have a Jupiter. Well it's not looking too
bad or too great I don't know. At least
we can see the bands um, I don't see the
red spot there though.
All right so what we're going to do
we'll have to shut it off and uh change the ISO and
brighten things up so we can take a look
at the old moons up there. I shall be
right back. All righty, there we are
we have it on 3200 so it's very bright
well I don't like how they're coming out
because it's so grainy so I'm gonna go
down to a I'm gonna change I'll be right
back
Alrighty, I went back and changed it to
1600 because it was so damn grainy.
So is this but anyway I think we have
Europa out in the lead tonight and
Callisto is way in the back there
bringing up the rear
I like the configuration the other night
when it was like the triangle out in front.
That's cool
so
yeah here's hoping we have about a week
maybe two weeks I don't know but I might
be stretching it to be able to still get
Jupiter after the Sun Goes Down now
where is Saturn. I'm gonna take a few
pictures and I'll be right back
Alrighty, sorry for the grainy image but
to be able to see Saturn I have to
really crank it up so it's at 3200 now
and it's over to the right of the moon
there as we can see a little flicker of
light
okay I was hoping to be able to get
Titan in here. I don't really see it
though it should be about the seven
o'clock position and but let's change it
up so we can get a better view of Saturn
itself. So I just changed the shutter
speed to one over 320. All right there's
our ringed one. I think that's the best
I'll be able to get it in. It's not too
bad but I can never tell for sure until
we go in the house and look on the
computer. okay so as Saturn takes its
journey here I'll explain. I did get the
remote today. I was real excited about it
well I got it yesterday and it seemed to
work fine, not a problem, but then today
when I hooked it up to the tripod and
the external monitor it was like what
what the hell what's going on it won't
work
bluetooth won't connect. So apparently
you can't use the remote with the HDMI
cable plugged in. I'm hoping that's just
a software, or what do ya call it, a firmware
issue and it can be fixed I really hope
so because it was really cool being able
to zoom in and focus with the remote
but I rely so much on the external
monitor because like I told you before
I'm an old lady and have bad eyes so
having a 7-inch monitor helps so much
yeah one issue after another and I'm not
nitpicking or anything but
just explaining my issues. All right,
that's enough of Saturn
we're gonna go off and hunt for one more.
I don't see any stars by eye
just so you know because I I live in the
city and we have light pollution and all
that good stuff here. Ah there we go, we
can get all three of them in the shot so
to the right of the willow tree and to
the left of the moon is Mars.
Let's go in and take a gander at him.
okay I'm not gonna be happy with this so
until I turn the iso down for Mars
I didn't do it yesterday so I'll be
right back. All right, I'm sorry about that.
I'm just having a hard time dialing it in.
anyway we're on iso 200 and 1 over 200 for
the shutter. so a look at our orange
buddy, brother,
whatever. Thanks everybody for coming
over
be nice now and with so many comments that are
on the video I, uh, wow,
I don't know if I'm gonna be able to
keep up now. I try to, but, because I like
talking to you guys. Anyway, and that should
do it I have a lot of footage to go
through so I'm gonna wish you all great
night and wonderful Wednesday if that's
what it is tomorrow. All right good night now.
