I don't have that photo right now for this post, but may use it for an article in this month's Star Stuff (FAAC club Newsletter). I'm late at getting that article together, so I don't know if I'll even get that update published this month.
Yesterday I tried to combine kayaking with Astronomy. Or I should say go kayaking and have my telescope ready for Astronomy if the weather proved to be reasonable for viewing. It turned out I didn't have enough energy and will to break away from chatting and talking after kayaking, so I didn't do any Astronomy out in Dexter, although I had my telescope in the car.
I took a Hero 3 Black Edition camera with me while kayaking. I ended up taking a few videos with it in the waterproof case. I also took a few stills, but this was of the little river near Dexter and I could see the moon rising over the water as I kayaked back toward my friends house.
Here's a picture I took from the kayak. I've done a little photo manipulation to correct the fisheye distortion in the original using Adobe Photoshop CS6. I used a 15mm lens correction and -22 custom correction to get the photo into a nicer perspective, losing most of the fisheye distortion. The reflection of the moon in the water looked really nice near sunset. The dark water had an almost polarizing effect on the reflected view.
It's a nice night out tonight and I may still stop by the observatory to try to get a spectroscopy photo of the nova for spectral analysis. We have a filter to take a photo of something like this, but I don't know if I'll be awake enough to head over there and give it a try. There's is a chance I'll go over. We'll see. I put out a post of the results if I'm able to make it there.
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