Off Topic Nikon P900

I agree. I do-not know why camera designers bother with electrical focus manual mode. There is just no beating a good  manual focus ring. Aperture ring and shutter speed  adjust

First Sun Spots for 2019.

Typical solar minimum sun spots
I am not sure what the shadow to the left of the spots is. May be a cloud although the sky appeared to be clear?

Can somebody tell me how to fix my comp screen.
When I shut down the other night I inadvertently clicked on something that shifted the blue task bar (or whatever you call it)  to the far left of the screen.
How do I get it back to across the bottom of the screen?

I can rotate the entire screen but not just the blue bar].

I'm not much help Adrian, that has happened to me but can't recall how I fixed it. Cheers

Same with me . I do not recall how I fixed it last time.

Option is not there to click on??

This is what I get:

Hi Adrian, I was just looking at my settings, right click on task bar go to ( task bar settings ) and on mine go down to ( task bar location on screen ) but my screen looks a lot different than yours. Running windows 10
Just a thought what comes up if you click on customise?

Cheers Peter

OK thanks. Dragging fixed it but now the bar is too wide.

Largish Sun Spot approx 40,000 km in diam with a bright prominence spanning the centre region.
Not very good shots but what can you expect from a hand held un filtered shot at 1000x of something 150,000,000 km away








Maaan I dunno!! First my pics were to large now they are too small

Anyone know why crested pigeons do this.?

Jaged a shot of an aircraft flying past the moon just now.
You can just pick out a bit of the jet exhaust on the right limb of the moon.

That is interesting. The complete pic displays on my screen without having to click on the pic??

Hi Jackie.
Pic taken from my back yard. Aircraft was on final approach approx 7 km away as moon was rising just above my neighbours roof and some local hills.

Moon is over exposed because the 900 was set to capture the aircraft.

Jupiter and Venus tonight.




Not sure what the little fuzzy spot is to the right of jupiter? Have taken several shots of this area of sky and it is in all of them.

Nice pics Adrian,I saw these two planets last evening and it reminded me to say thanks for sharing the Nikon pics.
You might have discovered your own fuzzy comet? or it might be the mould growing inside your lense

cheers moredeep

Mould! Mould! There's no mould in my 900 Grrrrrrrrr.
Am uncertain about the comet notion. a possibility I guess. If not too cloudy I will have another look to night.
    The fuzz ball was not in pics taken on 24/11/19 at 2043, 2044, 2045 and appeared in pics taken at and after 2053.

Enlargement of fuzz ball.

you'll have to think of a name for your fuzz ball [Adrian's fuzzy ball comet 900]

cheers moredeep

By the Adrian way forgot to mention about things on lenses/screens,back in the old days in hospitals they use to have the xray box,dr's would put the xray up to examine it.
On the odd occasions a patient lung/chest xray would have the preliminary diagnosis of a "shadow" on their lung, only to turn out to be a smudge on the perspex screen.
Some git had used sticky tape on the screen,when the tape was removed and not cleaned properly it would build up a translucent smudged area not seen until the light box was turned on.
The good old days not.

cheers moredeep

These are single frame snap shots of the Southern Cross region taken April last year and about one minute apart and shows an egg shaped smudge that has moved during taking the pics.
I did not notice it when setting the shots up and have no idea what it may be.

That's very odd indeed I haven't a clue.
I've done a bit of photography in my day but that is strange.

cheers moredeep

Quick shot of Venus tonight and there appears to be some cloud banding visible...That is about as good as the p900 can get it without enhancement.

An enlargement of the egg smudge.

It's an awesome zoom

cheers moredeep