Waterfall

Okay Conjunction Part II. And some moon while I was at it.

Brought out bigger machinery. Got just a bit of Saturn ring action.

'Great Conjunction' - I'll be the judge of that. I'd say, more like... 'Okay Conjunction'.

Well, this was from my backyard, so at least I didn't expend a lot of effort!

 

Foggy!

Another hand held pano. I'm getting a lot of use out of this.

 

On the way home.

More goofing off. More hand held panos.

Goofing off in the park.

Handheld pano.

Entrance to Piney at winter pool. (Plus 2 ft)

Still more.... Fungus.

More Fungus

iPhone Fungus

Brought to you courtesy of the Bever Dam Creek Baptizing Center.

 

A little more park.

A Walk in the Park.

Pompous Park Pond Pano!

Lake Malone Ky

Starting to look for fall colors. Not a lot of keepers from Lake Malone. Lots of the great orange menace signs though!

Well. That's the way it is.

 

Well, I saw one while setting up.

Went out a little early for the Persids (early date wise, and also early in the evening). My first location choice had a surprising (to me anyway) number of people, so I scoped out another location in the area. Saw one streak across the sky while I was setting up. None during capture though. I bumped my camera out of focus anyway, and I would have been disappointed if there had been a big display. So, here is one six second shot, a little out of focus, with a little help from tail lights. I've done worse.

Then, a stack of several six second shots. All still out of focus.

Neowise.

Well, not great, but there is a comet in there. My half-assed attempt at getting a shot of Neowise before it's gone. That is the visitor center at Mammoth Cave NP below.  This is a 30 second shot, my shorter shots didn't make the cut. All stars are slight arcs if you look closely. Like I said, half-assed attempt. There are a few clouds here and there.

Also, due to my lack of planning, I was thinking the comet was going to be much further up closer to the second star in the big dipper handle. I never was able to see it that night. Just shooting blind with no real hopes of anything. It was just happenstance that the comet is fairly well centered in my shot. The first image is is not cropped, the comet was just pretty much right in the middle of my shot.

The second image is just a crop of the first image.

Better luck next time!

Osprey! Lake Barkley! White Pelican! (and LOTS of Double-crested Cormorants)