Saturday, January 18, 2025

Leftovers

I had some video footage of Jupiter shot from the kitchen window sitting around from the test runs before the Moon Mars occultation. Decided to try processing it.

Not bad for a quick test with just my Canon R7 + 500mm (750mm crop) zoom lens 60fps 4k on a Move Shoot Move tracker. Probably didn't really need the tracker for this but it was setup for testing and it things closer to center and easier to process.

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

The moon has a pimple!

 Lunar occultation of Mars captured from our kitchen window in SF. 

Does the moon have a pimple or is that Mars being occluded?





It started from lower left and ended top middle.

Light cloud cover that you can't see in the photos but it did cause the beginning images (lower left) to be softer. The clouds actually made it look nice and spooky through binoculars. Maybe at some point I'll edit a short video from the footage I captured to stack.