RichC | June 16, 2022
As the warm evening and nights of summer arrive, I catch myself looking up at the sky again. It may have started with a purpose back when Charlie (Kamikaze) and I were locally sailing the “Fiberpile” and studying celestial navigation before there was much more than radio directional finders (LoranC was too costly and wasn’t […]
Category: Books, Hobby, Memories, Sailing, Social Media, Space, TBT |
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RichC | June 14, 2019
With the colder weather and clear sky over Cincinnati late Thursday evening and Friday morning this week, I took my Lumix GX-8 camera and 100-300mm lens out in the backyard to see what I could photograph. Not much as expected from Jupiter, but I think I could make out a couple moons in the pixelated […]
Category: Photography, Photos, Science, Space |
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Tags: astronomy, camera, cincinnati, gx8, jupiter, lumix, photography, Photos, planets, space, stargazing
RichC | July 23, 2018
The moon and Jupiter circled from my iPhone on Sunday night July 22, 2018 I have fond memories of sitting out with Katelyn when she would get out her telescope and was learning astronomy … but I do also still enjoy special nights like last night to "try" to capture the amazingly bright and large […]
Category: Cellphone, Photography, Space |
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Tags: astronomy, cincinnati, jupiter, mars, moon, nighttime, planets, saturn, skywatching