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Binocular Relaxation

I will say this for cloudy weekdays – at least I don’t have to make up excuses for not taking my telescope and camera out on a “school night.”

Just one problem, though – the Moon was approaching Full and washed much of the sky out. So I settled for looking at the Moon, mostly.

April 19, 2018 Paul 991 Views 0 Comments Moon

The Moon is now significant higher than Venus after Sunset, and fuller. So I took my digital camera and tripod outside to take the above picture.

April 17, 2018 Paul 929 Views 0 Comments Moon, Venus

Despite the unseasonably cold chill (the reason I have not posted anything for several weeks), I set up my camera to take this photograph.

March 31, 2018 Paul 934 Views 0 Comments Moon

The beaming Moon, contrasted to the blurry haze of last night’s, was too tempting a target not to get my camera and tripod out.

With an excellent view towards the Western horizon on Sunday night, Venus and Mercury were easy to see.

My first thought was, oh crap, I almost forgot about that! I further completely forgot that Venus and Mercury would be very close tonight.

March 3, 2018 Paul 994 Views 0 Comments DSLR, Moon

Though I missed taking a picture of the Full Moon on March 1st, I did get this picture the following night of the early Waning Moon.

I had prepared my 127mm Mak-Cass and digital camera with tripod, hoping to see and capture this morning’s Lunar Eclipse event.

On Thursday night, a few hours after I photographed the Orion Nebula, I searched for the asteroid and dwarf planet known as Ceres.