watching a woodpecker catch dinner
My Macro World
Sunday, April 2, 2023
Saturday, March 25, 2023
March 25, 2023 in search of spiders and small insects at Triple creek nature preserve
scarce vapourer caterpillar
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
venus Pleiades Move-SHoot-Move tracking
I've been experimenting with MSM tracker (Move Shoot Move) to capture Venus and the Pleiades.
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A stack of 25 images Canon T3i, 70-300mm ISO 400 sec exposure. Image not as crisp as two days ago |
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annotation, brightest object venus - annotation of original stacked image by nova.astrometry.net |
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Full MorningMoon |
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Full evening Moon |
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Astrophotography by mistake photographing Venus and the Plieades
I'm learning Astrophotography mostly by trying many things making mistakes and learning from mistakes. April 4, 2020 - trying to set infinity focus - by varying focus of a bright object, in this case Venus - as I pass through the focus many dim objects appear and when they are brightest _ I think that is the infinity focus point 9about 400 light year - big infinity. the Plieades above and to the right of Venus appear but I did not recognize - but took several image - while post processing, I passed the image through nova.astrometry.net for annotation - tells me where I've aimed my camera lens. labeled a number of the stars and other galactic objects, nebulae etc.
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Venus passing through Plieades |
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Annotation by astrometry.net of objects in the above imag |
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Initial image Plieades quite faint - Venus, brightest object |
One night later between clouds
Monday, March 16, 2020
water birds
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Great BLue Heron |
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Ibis |
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great blue heron |
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anhings drying wings |
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Duck |
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duke in flight |
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Great LBue heron waiting for twigs to finish the nest |
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Great Blue heron taking off - tired of waiting |
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taking off |
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either taking off or landing - don't remember |
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Ibis |
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taking the plunge |
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white egret fishing |
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White egret caught a fish |
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white egreat taking fish to the dinner table |
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