Nobody tells you where to go from there.
Wow...
The Kodak Gear tripod I picked up from Amazon.Com is like totally cool!
After the sky cleared out a bit, I went out back tonight for a little while to snap some pictures of old friends, namely Canis Major and Taurus the Bull.
"Dog Star" (or Sirius, the most prominant star in Canis Major)
and...
"Bull's Eye" (or Aldebaran, the eye of Taurus, surrounded by the Hyades Cluster)
Bummer though...
I only had a window of about a half an hour before the sky clouded back up. These two pictures were about the best I could do. I live in a highly light-polluted area - which is another reason why tonight was a good night for this: new moon. New moon essentially means no moon. No big white blob in the sky throwing stray light all over the place. I mainly intended this to be an exercise in exposure times and magnification limits for photographing stars with my Kodak Z650.
I dunno...
I think I was more jazzed about looking up at Orion and his friends above me with the tripod controls in my hands. I felt like a teenager again (yes, my adolescent years were very depressing) with my first telescope.
I guess I'll go back to watching The Odd Couple. I got the first three seasons on DVD recently...
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