It's been a typical Finnish autumn. There's nothing but rain, clouds and fog everywhere. There's nothing to be mad about beautiful fall colors on trees, all the leaves are turning red, but there's one thing that makes me absolutely devastated about the weather.
Dwarf lab were kind enough to provide me with the beautiful Dwarf 2 telescope and I haven't been able to use it the way I want to use it; Imaging nebulae, imaging planets, imaging stars. Luckily Dwarf 2 is more than just a normal, typical telescope. It's a multi-purpose device, and I had a chance (okay, I'll admit, I bought nuts) to take some photos of a friendly squirrel. It's simply amazing how the telescope handled hard winds, constantly changing lighting as there were a lot of clouds, and the squirrel moving about. I couldn't have gotten a better image with my DSLR.
Fast forward few days ahead and there's a cloudy night, but I can see an inkling of Moon behind the clouds. I knew that I had to take the chance and went outside telescope in hand. I found just the right spot in the middle of the road and started to focus. Within 1 minute I was already fully focused, directed at and tracking the moon. I took about 20 photos, but only one was even close to be cloudless. It's the image I've attached to the blog-post.
Weathercast for the next 10 days promises me one night (12am-3am) where there should be a clear sky. Other than that it's all rain, clouds and wishful thinking of a cloudless, rainless night.
Thank you Dwarf Lab for giving me the opportunity to better myself at the craft and giving me, a complete newcomer to astrophotography, a chance to learn, progress and share my tiny dream of imaging our beautiful night sky.
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