watching a woodpecker catch dinner

 

March 25, 2023 in search of spiders and small insects at Triple creek nature preserve

scarce vapourer caterpillar

oak tree hopper on a twig

Oak treehopper Platycotis vittala

Eastern lubber grasshopper juvenile 

 

March 4 2023 survey at circleB Bar nature preserve

red shoulder hawk

                                                        eyes of a gator 

                                     four wading birds 

aligator swimming

Great blue heron

    

                    OSsprey

venus Pleiades Move-SHoot-Move tracking

I've been experimenting with MSM tracker (Move Shoot Move) to capture Venus and the Pleiades.

A stack of 25 images Canon T3i, 70-300mm ISO 400 sec exposure. Image not as crisp as two days ago

annotation, brightest object venus - annotation of original stacked image by nova.astrometry.net

Full MorningMoon

Full evening Moon

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.

Venus passing through Plieades

Annotation by astrometry.net of objects in the above imag

Initial image Plieades quite faint - Venus, brightest object

One night later between clouds

Later through the clouds apr 05

Annotated

water birds

Great BLue Heron

Ibis

great blue heron

anhings drying wings

Duck

duke in flight

Great LBue heron waiting for twigs to finish the nest

Great Blue heron taking off - tired of waiting

taking off

either taking off or landing - don't remember

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Ibis

taking the plunge

white egret fishing

White egret caught a fish

white egreat taking fish to the dinner table