Well hello there, we finally have a
beautiful clear blue sky here up here in
Northeastern Ohio on Saturday March 7th
2020 at now 6:01 p.m. The Sun has about a
half hour to go before it sets over in
the West and over here in the East we
have a beautiful 96% moon rising over,
over here
with an airplane passing underneath, that
was cool
now I haven't set up the SkyWatcher mount
yet, so let me get situated here and I will
eh, it sounds like gunshots,
okay there we go so
sorry it takes a while to
get her set up, um, I'm trying something
different, okay I've got a little bit of
a different set up here tonight and I'm
kind of unsure how well it's gonna do
but I got a SmallRig cold shoe adapter
that goes on the hot shoe of the camera
and can plug into the monitor but that's
an awful lot of weight up there and I'm
not sure how well it's gonna work, it's
gonna bounce around a bit I think
especially when it's windy but
you know what's quite cool is that really
bright spot over there in the lower left
yeah, see every time I touch the camera
that just bounces around way too much, ah
doggone it, I was really hoping this setup
would work out better
but yeah I don't think this setup, dog
gonnit
is gonna work, oh well um there's really
not much use to going in any further when
the moon's so full like this that it
just looks uh too flat, you really can't
see too much of the craters and the
depth and all that stuff, so there's just
really no sense in going in much further
b ut there we go and like I said the
moon's 96% lit right now and it'll be a
Full Moon SuperMoon on Monday, two days
from now, and I do believe there's four
Supermoons for the year 2020,
and what that means is the moon will be
closest to Earth at the time so it's
gonna look bigger and brighter than
usual, but it does look quite awesome
right now in this beautiful blue Ohio sky
it's quite nippy out it's about 40
degrees and I think it'll get down into
the 20s but I wanted to show the blue
sky here, now right there that's about
what I see by eye the size of moon, boy I
hope you guys do have clear skies
wherever you are because it's just beautiful out there
anyway I'll come back out in a little
while after the Sun goes down and try to
get a shot of Venus and Orion maybe some
nebulas and all that, if it's not too
cold out for this old lady, anyway y'all
take care, it's now 6:13 p.m. up here
I hope to be back, all right, bye now
Alrighty, hello there again, it finally got
dark enough out and over here in the
West we have Venus shining brightly up
there along with a few other stars and
earlier we shot the moon with the Nikon
P1000 when it was still daylight out but
I wanted to get pictures and I like
using the Canon camera for that so
that's as far as I can go in on the 70
to 200 lens, whoa there's something
shooting across the sky there
it doesn't look like an airplane, I can't
see a trail so it's probably a satellite
I do wish I had a longer lens here but
200 is as far as I can go
that's quite cool though, all right, let's go back
over to, back over to Venus
now tonight and we should be able to see
it here, actually let me double check the
SkySafari Pro app, right over, I'll do a
crop zoom in Final Cut Pro so we can
see it but, but right over to the left of
Venus at the nine o'clock position is
Uranus, now I can't see it by eye but I
see a faint speck of light here on the
video, video screen, that's quite cool,
okay I'm gonna reposition our tripod and
try to go for some pictures of Orion and
Sirius and maybe the moon, hang on now
okay so that brightest one there in the
middle of the screen is Sirius, we can
see a few others dotting the sky but I
can't see them by eye
the only thing I can see is the moon
Sirius and Venus and that's it
but Venus is in the West, at the moment
Sirius here is in the south, and the
moon's over to our left still in 
the eastern sky, now we have the ISO up real high but
it'll probably be grainy
anyway, alright, ok with this lens I'm not
gonna be able to see the whole
constellation of Orion, but
but from here we have Betelgeuse up there
Betelgeuse, whatever, the Belts down
here and here we have the Orion Nebula
which I need to get some pictures of and
try to do a crop and get a nice shot of
it I hope, alright, and
and over there through the trees, we
have that pretty moon up there
okay, there we go,
I forgot that we could do a 10x zoom
here so what I'm gonna do is uh, before
taking pictures, do the same thing for
Sirius and Venus so let me reposition
yet again, okay and there we go with a
Sirius at our 10x, let me shut all this
shit off though, and I guess I can't yet
oh well, that's alright, and
all right so that should be the Orion
Nebula in the southern sky
we had our 10x in-camera crap on, now
we're gonna reposition yet again, okay and
we're back over to Venus and use our 10x, she pretty much looks like Sirius huh
with this high exposure and whatever settings
I have on here, there we go, yeah, that's
why, but anyway um, let me get some
pictures and hope all this stuff comes out
oh I had to rearrange and put the
old setup back up because the uh, there was
just way too much weight on top of the
camera, so we're back down to having the monitor
on the tripod leg and, it was a good try,
anyway
but anyway I hope you have a great Sunday ahead and a new week upcoming, don't forget we have Daylight
Savings Time, starts tomorrow,
Thank You Jewel, j7409, she reminded us
this morning, me I would've forget, I'd
have gone through the whole day without
knowing what time it was, so yeah, set
your clocks ahead, spring forward and
fall back, and I hope you have great
viewing of the next couple days of the Moon
being so much closer to the earth and
being big and bright and beautiful up there
as it journeys across, alrighty,
ya'll take care, bye from Ohio
good night now
well I had shut off the
video portion and was taking pictures of
Venus when I saw these satellites going
by one right after another so I'm
guessing they're the Starlink ones
they seem to be further apart. Movie
Vertigo, he gets some great shots of the
ISS and the Starlink satellites here, and
they're over in the west-northwest
now the bright object there is uh, over on
the far left is Venus, and we can see a
few of the satellites going by
there's been a whole slew of 'em, my
goodness and there's more coming
and if I look up by eye I can't see
anything, which as usual just Venus and
the moon and Sirius
I have too much light pollution here
now these guys look closer together don't they
yeah now there's one right after another
oh my goodness,
it's getting quite cold out here, I think
it might have dipped below freezing, it's
now 7:32 p.m. out here, better put some
gloves on, yeah look at them, the earlier
ones seemed to be spread further apart
or it could have been because I was zoomed
in, let me double check, yeah
I never thought I'd have a chance to
catch them
not in my skies with
with barely even being able to see just
a few stars, but thank goodness for
cameras with good exposure and telephoto
lens and shutter speeds and all that stuff
much better than my eyesight, okay that
looks about it, they should be done,
it's now 7:33 p.m.
There we go. Bye.
Cool.
