Last Night's Moon 7-1-25
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I tried shooting a handheld high-resolution shot of the moon last night with the mZuiko 100-400mm zoom and it wouldn't work. Not enough image data in the frame to align all the images. But if I put the MC20 2x teleconverter on it, it fills enough of the frame to align the images.
Went into Watkins and picked up the proximity card for the gym. When I got home, there was an alert on my phone that Apple Maps had corrected the issue I reported.
At first, I thought they had. I entered our address and that's what showed up on Maps. Well, I'd forgotten that I'd entered a Pin for our address, and that's where Maps goes when I enter the address. If I remove the Pin, it still points to our neighbor's house.
So I reported the issue again. Added six photos and typed in ALL CAPS, because I'm old and cranky.
It's a beautiful day here. I can't let Apple and its dysfunctional customer service ruin it.
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Saw the fireflies in the grass behind the house last night and figured I'd try a little experiment.
Stuck the Olympus Tough TG-6 against the sliding glass door and tried a Live Composite shot. This is a little 1/2.3" sensor compact camera with an f2 lens, so I wasn't expecting a lot. Its great virtue was its light weight, which made the suction cup tripod mount less of a risk. I have an adapter so you can screw a filter in front of the lens, but I couldn't find an adapter so I could make one of my circular polarizer filters fit, so there's some reflection in the glass.
This is probably 11 or 12 minutes of 13s exposures, composited into one image. That may be a meteor near center frame, or a flash from a satellite. The time in the exif data is an hour off, despite the fact that this camera has built-in gps. I probably have a setting wrong somewhere. But the shot was a little more than an hour past sunset, so there's still a lot of sky-glow.
I checked later in the night when I was up anyway and firefly activity was much diminished, so they seem to be more active just after sunset.
This is tweaked in Photos, but largely what came out of the camera. Larger version up in Flickr.
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By no means an exceptional photograph. I was shooting through a window and I couldn't exactly maneuver to frame the shot except for zooming in or out. I had gone into the bedroom for something else and saw this group beginning to emerge. Called for Mitzi and then went to find a camera.
There are a lot of deer around here, so I'm quite certain this will become rather mundane at some point. But for now, it's still pretty remarkable. This is the first time that we've seen this many does and fawns together.
Warmer today than yesterday, but by no means oppressive. We had the windows open most of the day, only closing them about an hour ago to kind of bring the internal temp down a few degrees.
I got in touch with the gym, and I'm picking up my access card tomorrow morning. I'll probably start working out on Thursday, I have a few things I need to do tomorrow.
Just wanted to get a post in for the first day of July.
The beat still goes on...
For now.
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