Well hello there. We finally have a
clearing up here in Northeastern Ohio
and today is Sunday March 15th 2020 at
8:05 p.m. and we're facing west and that
bright object up there is the planet Venus
and we are on the Nikon P1000 camera and
it's quite chilly out here and windy but
what we're gonna do is put that 6 stop
ND filter on, go up all the way, and there we
go, looks like a half moon up there
doesn't it, I believe it's phase is about
59% lit. Now I could try to take the ISO down some
I'll try that in just a second, all
right, there we go
it's not the best view but better than
being shut out.
Oh my goodness, it's chilly out here
okay there's really not much else out here to see but let's
go back out
I'll have to move for Sirius
okay so there we go, over in the southern
sky we have Sirius, that incredible
binary star in Canis Major
yeah and this damn camera
it has horrible... all right, so we went over
to the Orion Nebula but we can't get it
with this camera, it has terrible
low-light, that's terrible I can't even
see the constellation by eye, kind of
sucks being in the city you know
let me go get the other camera and I'll be
right back. Hang on now.
alrighty here we are, we're
back with the Canon EOS R camera and
the 70 to 200 lens on there, and we're at
the max 200 millimetres, that's as far as it'll go
and we're pointing right at the
Orion Nebula, so what I'll do I'll try to
do a crop zoom in Final Cut Pro and put
it alongside a picture, I hope the
picture comes out
if I didn't screw anything up, oh let me
shut that stuff off, there we go
okay, and if we go further up we see Orion's belt there
and, try to find it there we go that
should be Betelgeuse - beetlejuice
whatever you want to call it
okay that should be enough of that
all right now we're gonna switch around
well guess who we have over here, we have
the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters
it is so beautiful
anyway, what I was trying to go to, on
this camera, is Venus, and once again as I
constantly have to say it, I can't see
much of anything by eye except Venus and
uh Sirius, and just a few light dot in
the sky, but Venus is just shining so
brightly over there
whoa, looks like we have a satellite going
up there
oops
and I do believe I'm at the max, oh no I
wasn't, sorry about that
there we go
okay so there we go with the 10x zoom on
and I did forget to do that over at the
Orion Nebula, oh my it is so cold out
here
and once again, all right there we go, I want
to get my bearings here, and even in the
video we can get a little bit of color
there, that aqua color and and a tinge of red
boy the temperature must have really
dropped down, and there we go with our
beautiful Sirius, still in the South, with Orion
up in the southwest and Venus over to our
right in the Western skies it's going
down, and that should do it on this uh
chilly evening here in Northeastern Ohio,
so I hope wherever you are you're all
safe and have all your supplies ready,
the world's gone mad right now so please
be safe and take care of yourselves and
your families, all right, goodnight from
Ohio it's now 8:43p.m. up here. Bye now. brrrr!
