Alrighty, well hello there -
here we are on Tuesday August 18th 2020
at 9:30pm up here in Northeastern Ohio,
and we're out here playing around yet again
with the Canon R camera and we have two
teleconverters on that 18 to 400 Tamron lens
so we have a 2x and a 1.4 x
of the Kenko teleconverters
and at the moment we're at the 10x
focusing zoom
on the camera
okay and there we go we're at uh, we're
at the 400 times whatever those
teleconverters are,
I think it's about 1120 millimeters there
okay there we go we dialed down the
exposure so we can see a bit of the bands
now this should be pretty close to the
size that the
P1000 gets, the max zoom on that
is 12,000 and this should be 11,120
if my calculations are right, it's hard to say
but
and I can't really see
Saturn at the moment
but I think it's cleared the willow tree,
now
okay there we go
now Saturn's coming out quite yellow
but I'm sure that has to do with the uh
setup I have here
that is so cool to see
and as you can tell since it's not going
out of frame we are on the
Sky-Watcher tracking mount
which makes things so much easier
now it's not the greatest captures with
this setup but it's still cool that we can get
pretty close to what the the P1000 does
now I will try to stack this in the Lynkeos app for Mac - if they come out
that might be a bit iffy, I don't know
and who knows, I might even overlay this
onto a photo
so don't freak out if I do. I do that for
a bit of creativity but also to
to help you see the surroundings here
and where the planets are in my sky
and all that good stuff
it's a shame I have to write in big
letters 'Overlay'
I can get some scathing remarks from
people if I don't
and even when I do, my goodness, anyway
that's gonna do it, uh, so I'm gonna wish
you all a great
rest of your week and hope all's right in
your world
so you all take care, it's now 9:40pm
up here
bye from Ohio
