I was going to post this on the day I did this, Sunday, Feb the 21st, but I was really tired by the time dinner was over. Monday I was occupied with helping my wife, and today was a continuation of that. But all is good
Last Sunday was a nice continuation of my Saturday; the weather was even warmer, and I gave my buddy's BBQ a second coat of paint and made progress on the grill I'm making for it.
I finished my welding on his grill at about 4:30PM EST, and took a look to the east. The Moon was rising in a fairly blue sky, and was just under my tree's most easterly facing branch... I went in the back door, and got my "Towatron" 60mm
With this
It might not sound like much, but that's almost how far Venus and the Moon are away from each other in this single shot from July 15th, 2018:
It also does a pretty good job of focusing on racoons prowling around, high up in my tree
But still not enough for what I wanted; a shot with the Moon focused with that tree branch in the same frame. However, the top limb of the Moon and the absolute bottom of the branch fit in the
I took a picture of that, then the Moon, backed out the focuser, then did the tree branch. Using
I kept that spacing and blended the sky in, though it was pretty much all the same color; just not where the frames joined.
And this is my end result.
After that, I brought it all in, and at about 6PM the snow started. We ended up with 6 inches (15 cm's) by Monday morning.
Thanks for reading my late post, and all my best to all of you
