Kim crawled into bed at 4:30 a.m.! His first round of images was done about the time I went to bed; because the Whirlpool was still visible, he set the scope to go for another couple hours to collect more data. Ended up with 6 hours of data…he’s never gotten that much on a target before. More data means more to work with when it comes to processing.
After he’s processed an image, he shows me to see what I think, and I
always ask him if he’s pleased with his efforts. I see a galaxy or a nebula in
picture form and am always amazed at the colors, shapes, etc. I don’t know what standards he’s chasing but
he’s much more critical of his work than I am.
To me, they’re hidden gems up in the sky, and I’m in awe that people can
even get pictures of them. But last night when he came to bed, he said, “You
know how you always ask me what I think of the image? Well, this one turned out
great! I’m very pleased with it. I love you and will you please get me up at
10?”
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When Kim has an imaging session going on, he programs the scope to do its
thing, returns to the camper and then walks out to check on it every so often. It
isn’t unusual for people to wander out there to see what’s going on in the
corner…they’ve either noticed the scope during the day or happen to be out
walking the dog one last time and see him.
Last night, I heard him talking when he was coming into the camper…a man
had stopped by the telescope, intrigued by what Kim was doing. Kim had explained the whole process and the
man asked if he had any pictures of what he’s done. Since Kim has had 4x6 pictures printed of his
images for this very reason, he invited the man to walk back to ‘that corner
lot over there, the camper behind the silver truck’ so he could get a picture for him. The man asked if that was the lot with all
the hummingbirds and then confessed that when he and his wife are out walking,
they stop by to watch the birds. Kim
pointed to the chairs and said, “Now you know where to sit.” Oh-kay.
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Cell camera is still sending pictures without any animal action which to
me means branch action is setting it off.
This morning it sent two pictures that were nothing but fog on the lense…don’t
know how it detected any kind of movement.
I downloaded that video and certainly didn’t see any movement through the condensation.
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We put the ramp down today to let fresh air in the camper; we were sitting at the table, Kim playing with his image program and me working on the needle felted snake. Saw movement out on the ramp;
When we left about 2:30 to go for a drive, sparrows had come near it but
not to it. Left the seed cake on the picnic table for their enjoyment in our
absence. Will try again tomorrow.
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I found piggy cookies at Safeway!
There’s not a big shelf display like at the Eloy IGA…just sitting in a
little basket in the bakery department along with other Mexican pastries from the
Estrella Bakery in Tucson. It was a good
find.
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It was
a beautiful day again…clear, sunny and warm.
We chose to go exploring this afternoon.
We had a specific goal in mind but first we took a detour over to the
burrowing owl relocation area. The tent
frames have been built and are set in place waiting for completion on
Saturday. Our real reason for exploring
is that there’s a road over by Saguaro National Park that has intrigued me
since we’ve started coming out here. It turns right off Sandario Rd. and it
looks like it goes on forever or maybe at least until it connects with AZ 86. However,
not having been down it, I had no way of
knowing if it was paved the entire length or if it turned to gravel at some
point. For that reason, we took the
truck. The truck is better for exploring
unknown roads than the bikes are. And as
it turns out, that was a good choice because Manville Rd does eventually turn
to gravel; it’s still a road but the kind that ATVs would be right at home
on…so not for our kind of motorcycle. Even
in the truck, we chose not to do the gravel portion; we turned around and
headed back the way we came. So, there’s still the mystery of how far the road
continues before it doesn’t go any farther.
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Kim’s
imaging a star cluster tonight. Don’t
know what that is but I suppose I will when he’s done.
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