A quick night

[Thefatkitty]

Well, it seems my forecast from this AM for tonight between 7 - 9 PM didn't exactly hold.

I sat out with my 60mm and camera, taking a few shots of the Moon and clouds playing hide and seek. I took this picture just after 8PM, and it cleared for about 5 minutes.

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I got my 80mm off the kitchen table from this AM, the mount from the shed (again), swapped the camera out, and managed six clear shots before the clouds rolled back in! The ISO was 800, 1/30th sec exposure with my T3.

I ran the six pics through PIPP, AS2, and ImPPG; it is what it is:

Moon_2019-09-03.png

And that was it. As you can see from the first picture, the Moon was getting pretty close to the rooftops anyways.

Back to work tomorrow :Boo: Try and have a good day all!

[bladekeeper]

Nice images, Mark!

I nabbed a few as well but am have a devil of a time stacking (I've always had trouble with crescents). I finally realized that with increasing the size of my alignment points I could get a clean stack. But now I'm having trouble with debayering. Maybe I need to forced it. I'll give that a shot.

The other problem is that I don't have Photoshop on my new laptop (older one is sitting in the yard sucking in photons from NGC 281). So I am trying to figure out how to reduce image size with GIMP so I can post the trash that I've been able to procure.

It's a hair puller.

Worked 15 hours on Friday, 7 hours on Saturday, 5 hours on Sunday, and only a couple today. Looking forward to going back to the office tomorrow so that I can at least get paid for my trouble.

[bladekeeper]

Mark, hopefully you are getting another shot at it this evening?

[Bigzmey]

Nice shots Mark!

[fatboy1271]

Love the moon over the chimney shot!

[Don Quixote]

Nice work Mark.
My wife and I are enjoying very much the moon over the chimney image!

Thank you.

[Thefatkitty]

Nice images, Mark!

I nabbed a few as well but am have a devil of a time stacking (I've always had trouble with crescents). I finally realized that with increasing the size of my alignment points I could get a clean stack. But now I'm having trouble with debayering. Maybe I need to forced it. I'll give that a shot.

The other problem is that I don't have Photoshop on my new laptop (older one is sitting in the yard sucking in photons from NGC 281). So I am trying to figure out how to reduce image size with GIMP so I can post the trash that I've been able to procure.

It's a hair puller.

Worked 15 hours on Friday, 7 hours on Saturday, 5 hours on Sunday, and only a couple today. Looking forward to going back to the office tomorrow so that I can at least get paid for my trouble.

Mark, hopefully you are getting another shot at it this evening?

Payday better have been good! All work and no play... Wish I could help with your images, but a DSLR is all I know Interesting, though, crescents I find the easiest; it's the "past 3/4s" lit that I struggle with! Still from what I saw you got it done nicely.

As for this evening.... I was outside at just after 8PM. To the east I could see a few stars. To the west, thick clouds with sheet lightning behind them, and the Moon coming in and out from behind the clouds. Kinda surreal that, especially with the cicada's trying to buzz louder than the thunder following the lightning...

So yeah. All that to say no luck tonight, but the following rain/lightning/thunder was quite the show!

Hope you fared better!

Nice shots Mark!

Thanks Andrey, and again, enjoyed your post and pics from the weekend!

Love the moon over the chimney shot!

Nice work Mark.
My wife and I are enjoying very much the moon over the chimney image!

Thank you.

Thanks to you both I did take quite a few; that one just made me happy as it was the last of the clouds!! In hindsight, I guess I should've posted the higher res/size one.

Have a good night all.