Very neat, Igor! Living in the middle of a big city, the ambient light makes star-gazing futile.
Rick > On Dec 21, 2020, at 11:55 AM, Igor PDML-StR <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Yesterday, when we finally set our lights outside of the house, - I saw a > neighbor setting his telescope - 2 houses down from us. Remembering your > heads-up about the celestial event [*], and having seen the two planets close > to each other last night with the naked eye, - I suggested my daughter to > walk over and chat. > He confirmed setting it up for the big planets, and offered to look at them. > He's got a serious telescope with the tracer, etc. I saw Jupiter with 4 moons > and the Saturn with the rings (for the first time in my life). My daughter > could see the same sans the 4th moon - she couldn't adjust the focus for her > eyes. > While the telescope was being set up, - she also got to see moon craters (for > the first time in her life). > > I was very impressed. > > Something good came out of us being late with the decorations. :-) > > --- > [*] Many thanks for that heads-up! > > > Cheers, > Igor > > > > On Mon, 21 Dec 2020, 10:06 Larry Colen wrote: > > >> I had a little better luck with the planets tonight, this is my best, you >> can actually see Saturn’s rings without squinting too hard >> > https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/50743174936/in/album-72157717440959336/ >> >> Pentax K-1 with adaptall 300/2.8 + 2x teleconverter ISO 400 1/100 second >> >> full album here >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157717440959336 >> >> After the conjunction was too deep in the haze, I decided to see whether >> the Tamron worked better with or without the 2x using my lunar test >> subject. When cropped to about the same size the shots with the 2x did >> seem a bit sharper >> >> https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/albums/72157717452588397 >> >> >> >> -- >> Larry Colen > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
