As is pretty standard with UK weather, evenings here are often cloudy. Last night I was checking the forecast and was happy to see that there's chance of 'intermittent cloud' which, when you deal with so many cloud, you'll take what you can get.
Knowing that the forecast for later in the night into the early hours of the morning meant that full cloud cover was likely to happen, I decided to take the camera and scope out for half an hour.
The First Quarter Moon was setting very low in the South West sky. Unfortunately, the layout of my back garden makes it very difficult to see that area of the sky due to neighbours houses and tress. However, I got a little lucky as I headed further to the back of the garden that usual and was able to catch it between trees.
The purpose of this was for two main reasons, one I haven't had chance to get the scope out all that much of late and secondly I wanted to try and capture some footage so I can practice so editing techniques I'd been researching.
The plan was to import the video captured of the Moon into Registax but after trying a little, I'm still struggling so will have to take a look at that some other time. At least for now I have the footage to go back to when I want to take that on again.
Anyway, it was a relativity uneventful half hour with the scope and the resulting video is below. Nothing fancy, just a simply HD 40 second clip of a First Quarter Moon. If anything, I think it's proved that getting out with the scope and camera for any amount of time can often be worth it and not to be put of by even partially cloudy nights.
