stepping beyond Loc: usa eastcoast

These are from my 2nd attempt at Jupiter , Phillips spc900nc & 3x Meade multi barlow/ modified webcam /8 in. astrograph /lxd55 {goto} mount. It was a {yellow} night meaning good seeing.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Hey! There you are! I was wondering where you were Ronnie.
Nice captures!

Hope everything is going well.
What's a 'yellow' night? Humidity, temperature, or both?

stepping beyond Loc: usa eastcoast

Pollen, it's killing me here in tree city. Everything is covered with yellow pollen and it doesn't help my equipment to be out in it .We haven't had any rain in quite a while , everywhere else gets it but, skips right over us or something. Sonny maybe the town didn't pay there water bill and the god of thunder shut it off. I also had a handpad fixed by another buddy . I'm wishing it would rain the news keeps saying but, haven't seen a drop. Salty dog.

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

Ronnie, Nicely done!
It's not easy getting everything working together when shooting Jupiter.
I have had good nights and really really bad nights lately.
I'm hoping to shoot tonight since Io is doing a transit starting now and lasting about two hours.
I have to wait for the sun to go down and its going to be a close call.
On the positive, the red spots out tonight later in the evening so there's hope there.
Keep on shooting, you're doing well.

SonnyE Loc: Communist California, USA

Oh Man! I feel for you. I developed allergies in 1968 at the age of 18. I thought I was getting some sort of fast moving head cold the first several times. Then I settled in for about 20 years of on again - off again allergy misery. Sometimes I'd take a double dose of Triaminicin and go to bed. Just knock myself out.
Somewhere, somehow, I guess I outgrew it, or my olfactory that reacted to the pollen burned out. But it's rare now that I'm affected. Hallilulia!
But that was hell.

One day I guess I just happened to be looking the right way when a tall pine about a quarter mile away let off this huge cloud. I thought somebody was burning something at first. But as I watched this plume rise up (no wind to speak of) and slow begin to drift away I could see it had a yellowish cast and wasn't smoke at all.
Usually, I've only seen the piles of it, or seen the accumulation on our cars. I was glad I saw that from afar, and it was headed away from me.

No, allergies are a nasty pain in the head. (And here you thought I was going to refer to a nether regine....

Shoot when you can, I hope you can find relief.

Two of the 3 of our youngest Grand Kids are suffering allergies now. They got it from their Mama. And the baby, 13 months has awful Eczema. Poor kids. (You, too.)

OK, it's time for me to man the controls. Looks to be a clear night for me.
(Last night was iffy, then I was getting weird images. I went outside and the cloud cover was very low, and glowing orange like high pressure sodium light pollution. I gave the sky a one finger salute, and called it a night.)

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

Very nice job Ronnie I love shots of Jupiter and the Moons.
I like Sonny have out grown my really nasty allergies. I just get them mildly now. When I was in my teenage years I went to an allergist and he gave me shots every 3 months. They did wonders. Anyway good luck with that.
Craig

stepping beyond Loc: usa eastcoast

Fellas thanks alot, It's so bad that with my headlight I just see a blizzard of pollen and when I pulled everything in everything was covered in pollen . I could no longer see the 18 different colored nail polish stars guestimating about 500star"dots" on my ota. I usually wear a dust mask but, I don't always remember to do so, I did check on astro shed and found the settings that I should be using and I was way off on the saturation and I shouldn't even use the gamma. I can't wait to get back out there and do some more and also get my 30s subs with my asi mono cam on Orion before it's gone. I'm now using Microsoft edge as my browser , IE is just a pain anymore.