The Friday after Thanksgiving, I managed to get some photographs of the Moon, Saturn, Venus and Jupiter.
We had some computer problems shortly afterward which prevented a proper download of the photos from my camera. (The camera can do some wireless transfers to a mobile device, but I noticed the image quality was vastly inferior to using a cable to directly copy image files to a hard drive.)
At the end of a day of decorating my folks' Christmas tree, I excused myself and went out to the southern slope of the hill where they live.
The crescent moon was out, but none of the other planets was visible. I was glad that I got out a little early, because it allowed me to find a good spot to set up the tripod. Then I waited and tried not to fiddle around with the zoom too much (which requires re-focusing).
I did wish that I'd managed to have a clear sky several nights prior when the Moon would have been much closer to Venus and Jupiter, but the Moon that Friday made it easier to find Saturn.
Writing: I got out of the house Monday and edited a long non-fiction piece that's been rattling around. It needs some cleaning up, and I should decide if I'm going to post it in installments to this blog or if I'm just going to push it out to Amazon or something.
Gym report: went to the gym Monday and did the new routine. I allowed myself a ten day break; the last time I was at the gym was Friday, December 20. I got some earbuds over the break and tried them out; I have to say that not hearing nihilistic music about some dude's co-dependent relationship and general mess of a life was kind of nice.
The Friday after Thanksgiving, I managed to get some photographs of the Moon, Saturn, Venus and Jupiter.
We had some computer problems shortly afterward which prevented a proper download of the photos from my camera. (The camera can do some wireless transfers to a mobile device, but I noticed the image quality was vastly inferior to using a cable to directly copy image files to a hard drive.)
At the end of a day of decorating my folks' Christmas tree, I excused myself and went out to the southern slope of the hill where they live. 
The crescent moon was out, but none of the other planets was visible. I was glad that I got out a little early, because it allowed me to find a good spot to set up the tripod. Then I waited and tried not to fiddle around with the zoom too much (which requires re-focusing).
I did wish that I'd managed to have a clear sky several nights prior when the Moon would have been much closer to Venus and Jupiter, but the Moon that Friday made it easier to find Saturn. 
Writing: I got out of the house Monday and edited a long non-fiction piece that's been rattling around. It needs some cleaning up, and I should decide if I'm going to post it in installments to this blog or if I'm just going to push it out to Amazon or something.
Gym report: went to the gym Monday and did the new routine. I allowed myself a ten day break; the last time I was at the gym was Friday, December 20. I got some earbuds over the break and tried them out; I have to say that not hearing nihilistic music about some dude's co-dependent relationship and general mess of a life was kind of nice.
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