Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2020/12/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]While Impressionism works some of the time, especially when emotion comes into play taking the time to build a facility more than a kilometer above sea level does provide a bit more detail. On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 4:03 AM Peter Klein via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Seattle had bad weather for several days before and during the Great > Conjunction on Monday night. Tuesday night the sky was partly cloudy, > but the cloudy part was blocking the planets. Tonight (Wednesday), I > finally got to see Jupiter and Saturn having their t?te-a-t?te. They are > still respectably close. Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains provide > the setting. > > < > https://www.flickr.com/photos/24844563 at > N04/50754183152/in/dateposted-public/ > > > > I was alone at a park on a bluff overlooking Puget Sound. Due to > COVIDiot considerations, I wanted to be sure I could quickly move away > from any unmasked people, unencumbered by a tripod, expensive equipment, > etc. So my record shot was taken with a humble iPhone 7, complete with > Impressionistic noise, and cropped to about 50%. Enjoy anyway. > > This is a better shot, taken with a very big telescope in Chile. Size > matters. As with mine, click once or twice to enlarge. > <https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201223.html> > > --Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information -- Don don.dory at gmail.com