Re: A little better luck tonight

2020-12-21 Thread Alan C 

Thanks for sharing. How wonderful for your young daughter.

Alan C

On 21-Dec-20 06:55 PM, Igor PDML-StR 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



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Re: A little better luck tonight

2020-12-21 Thread Daniel J. Matyola 
Well Done!

You have several with both the rings of Saturn and three moons of Jupiter
quite visible!

Dan Matyola
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On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 4:06 AM 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
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Re: A little better luck tonight

2020-12-21 Thread Rick Womer 
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  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
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Re: A little better luck tonight

2020-12-21 Thread Igor PDML-StR 



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



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Re: A little better luck tonight

2020-12-21 Thread Alan C 

Indeed you can. Well done. Tonight is the night!

Alan C

On 21-Dec-20 11:05 AM, 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



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Re: A little better luck tonight

2020-12-21 Thread Bob Pdml 
Very impressive. I looked for it yesterday but there was too much cloud low on 
the horizon. I’ll look again today, but right at the moment it’s raining 
heavily and looks set to continue all day. I’ve never seen the rings of Saturn 
but hopefully with binoculars I may be able to. I won’t try and photograph it 
as that is doomed from the start.


> On 21 Dec 2020, at 09:06, 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
> 
> 
> 
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Re: A little better luck tonight

2020-12-21 Thread Toine 
Wow!

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
>
>
>
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A little better luck tonight

2020-12-21 Thread Larry Colen 
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



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