Brotherly Fun

My favorite brother was up from Louisiana recently.  We had a very good visit together doing a variety of things, one of which was some "glass time".   Here he is shooting pictures of the moon (in daylight) using the Celestron C8 on a Vixen Porta Mount and his Nikon DSLR attached directly to the scope via a T-Ring.  We went out later in the dark and he was able to take some nice shots of the same target.  And, he wore a shirt to match the scope - which I thought was very kind of him.  If you look really close, his watch also matches.  He has always been a snappier dresser than me.

Family matters.  The older I get, the more it matters.  We had a good visit together, although I was a bit busier than I would have liked to have been.  Sharing these moments together meant a lot. 

His Eye is on the Sparrow

I shot these pictures this past Sunday, October 3rd. My intention was to practice using a new way I have of hooking my Nikon D40 up to my telescope. For these shots the camera was attached to an eyepiece which was in a diagonal which was in the telescope. In order to do that, I had to remove the lens from the camera (which lens was dropped and broken!) and in its place put a "T-Ring". Another metal ring goes between the
"T-Ring" and the eyepiece. The telescope was a Celestron C-8 and the eyepiece was a Baader Hyperion 24. The telescope is an F-10. The depth of field was very shallow so it was hard to focus. If you look closely, you can tell the pictures are "soft". Focus is a tough one. On my camera, you focus by looking through the camera and focusing the telescope. I hope to try it out this week on Jupiter.

The Lord uses sparrows to illustrate His care and concern for us.  If He knows when a sparrow dies, then He surely knows the details of our lives.