Well finally, the big guy finally showed
up here it's been ages since we last saw
the moon and I do love to see a crescent
this one's about 5.3% lit let's go up
and take a look at 'em, after I shut
this stuff off. Here we go
that is such a cool look a sliver of a
moon all right I tried to get it in
better but it's quite difficult because
it's so low on the horizon it's cutting
through a lot of muck and moisture in
the air but it's so cool to get just
that small slice of a moon there, but
anywa,y hello there, here we are with the
crescent moon on August 2nd 2019, what's
today Friday? and it's now 9:14 p.m. up
here in Northeastern Ohio and as that
little piece of the moon is about to duck
under the house and go to bed for the
night so we're gonna wish it well and
try to see if we can hit head over to
Jupiter here
okay there we go with our grainy image there, and we'll redo the alignment so
this will take me a little bit but if
the video does pick it up I see
Antares down there to the five o'clock
position away from Jupiter and Jupiter
is the bright one up there
all right there we go that should uh, I know
it took me a while but there's a good
look at all four of the moons and I'll
take a short clip here and I'll be right
back all right there we go we're back. we
got our short video clip and we'll try
to do a stacking, see how well it comes in
but next we're gonna try to get Jupiter in
it does not look too good i hope to
get it in better because i think the
great red spot is over there in the lower
right. all right there we go
I'll be right back taking another clip
okay so as Jupiter's doing its thing I'm
gonna walk in the back and see if I can
get a glimmer of Saturn I don't believe
so though no there's not a single
flicker over there I thought my sky
would be pretty good tonight for viewing
but there's not one star showing up by eye
oh well it's 9:27 p.m. now so maybe oh I
don't know maybe we'll come back out in
about two hours or so maybe an hour see
if uh Saturn ever shows
well it's so sad that my sky is devoid
of any of those stars up there and I
live in a small city I can't imagine
what it'd be like in the in a large one
probably be lucky just to see the moon
there we go get one more look at the
four moons around Jupiter and again it's
showing a big halo ring on the monitor
around Jupiter itself but I don't think
the video is gonna pick it up I don't
think it did the other night
so boy was it good to see the moon again
little bugger's been hiding from me and I
probably forgot to say it but Jupiter's
in the South right now the moon was over
in the west-northwest and Saturn's
should be in the southeast somewhere and
that's good enough there so if it's only
the two big guys tonight well that'll
have to do hopefully not though alrighty
we're at 9:35 p.m. now take care and I
hope to be back if not I'll wave goodbye
now.  you mean to tell me I didn't
have that recording? What the hell. oh hell. Well first off let me do this. alrighty, I think
I forgot to hit the record so I'm gonna
do this again
alrighty we're back it's now 11:05
p.m. and we're having trouble trying to
get even a picture of Saturn here but we
eventually did so then I was able to get
the alignment right and just double check
our settings here, okay we're at our max zoom
shutter speed's 1/150th and the ISO is 800
okay
so there's our ringed buddy it's nice to
be able to get Saturn and Jupiter in the
same shot so we'll put some pictures in
here so you can see the sky and where
they are positioned and a bit of our
foreground here of the trees and houses
and stuff and just in case I didn't get it, I'm gonna change up and try to
get the stars around Saturn in better
be right back. okay so if the recording
didn't work before I mentioned I could
see Titan over there about to the oh 8
o'clock position but it's doubtful the
videos gonna pick it up but what I
wanted to do just in case things got
buggered up I want to show the stars of
Sagittarius here which are all around
Saturn so the brightest light up there
is Saturn down at the bottom and those
flickers of light are called stars in
Sagittarius and just so you can see the
darkness here, so on the monitor this is
what it's like for me the ISO's up as
high as it'll go so you can't see the
tree or Saturn and the only light is to
the far right there which is Jupiter
that's why it can be so hard to get the
camera centered on that very faint light
anyway it's now 11:11 p.m. up here on
this Friday night the 2nd of August 2019
it's a shame the earlier footage I got of
Jupiter just did not come out very well
and the Great Red Spot was uh, was showing
tonight but it didn't come out very well
in the stacked images but that's the
breaks, but anyway we'll try to throw
some pictures in here maybe do some
overlays so we can see what we're
looking at in the direction and all that
at the moment Saturn's in the south and
Jupiter's in the southwest but anyway I
hope you all had a great week and you
have a fun time this weekend
take care now, the trio's gonna wave
goodbye and, no we'll make it a quartet
me too and hope all is right in your world.
good night from Ohio. Bye now.
