We had cloud cover, again on the horizon, so everything was obscured.. I did try to shoot Jupiter, and I did assume that the smaller planet lower to the left was Saturn, but I could never find Saturn in my viewfinder.. Finding Jupiter was hard enough with my setup - I'm glad you mentioned you couldn't hold the binoculars steady enough to see it - that's the same issue I run into with the camera and 1600mm lens.. for one, you can't find the object zoomed in that far, and two, you can't hold it steady enough to do anything with it

Even with a tripod I got marginal results.. I dd get Jupiter, but my lens isn't that great. zoomed in you can make out that is a ball, not a spec of light.. you can see the top had a blue cast and the bottom had red, I think, but very light.. Really all you could see in my pic was that it was a 3D ball, not a speck of light.. I'm guessing my lens isn't quite good enough for stars..moon, yeah, but no moon last night..

Really, the only way this is gonna happen, s with a super duper tripod that has cranks for every adjustment, so you can slowly manually crank up/down, left/right, etc.. trying to move the camera by hand, then crank it down is extremely difficult - you keep losing the star in the view finder and VERY tough to find it again.. Like, I said, I could SEE Saturn, but couldn't ever find it in my viewfinder.. I think I'm trying to do big boy work with equipment not meant for this type photography...

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