It was looking as sweet as a bag of M&M's tonight! I was eating it up. 
My schedule is a bit hectic with the grandkids right now, but thankfully they go to bed.
After I had gotten the 5 year old to bed, I went out on my daughters deck to look at the Moon and see how well I could see Mars. I could see it, but it just looked like a bright star, but I saw it! So the quickest way to take it was the old fashioned way, I stuck my Tamron 150-600mm and the 1.4x extender onto my Nikon D850 and shot it in DX mode.
But still... Mars only looks like a bright star. One day, maybe I will have some planet capturing telescopes for my astro gear. But for now, this is the best I could do.
Tonight Mars is the closest it's going to get for a while, it's also having it's own eclipse, what they call an occultation. But I didn't try to capture it. Mars when I do zoom in is still basically devoid of detail.
After I took this, I did set my astro gear up. The forecast had been for partly cloudy, but along with the full moon, I just wasn't going to bother. But then I decided what the heck.... I hadn't used my astro gear in video mode, which is what the guys do to capture the moon and the planets. So it gave me a chance to work through how to do video with my setup.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
My schedule is a bit hectic with the grandkids right now, but thankfully they go to bed.
After I had gotten the 5 year old to bed, I went out on my daughters deck to look at the Moon and see how well I could see Mars. I could see it, but it just looked like a bright star, but I saw it! So the quickest way to take it was the old fashioned way, I stuck my Tamron 150-600mm and the 1.4x extender onto my Nikon D850 and shot it in DX mode.
But still... Mars only looks like a bright star. One day, maybe I will have some planet capturing telescopes for my astro gear. But for now, this is the best I could do.
Tonight Mars is the closest it's going to get for a while, it's also having it's own eclipse, what they call an occultation. But I didn't try to capture it. Mars when I do zoom in is still basically devoid of detail.
After I took this, I did set my astro gear up. The forecast had been for partly cloudy, but along with the full moon, I just wasn't going to bother. But then I decided what the heck.... I hadn't used my astro gear in video mode, which is what the guys do to capture the moon and the planets. So it gave me a chance to work through how to do video with my setup.
All comments are welcome,
Jim
