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	<title>Thomasso's weblog &#187; Astronomy</title>
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	<description>Life in Fort Langley, BC, Canada (near Vancouver)</description>
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		<title>Macro Lens Is On Its way</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2012/02/09/macro-lens-is-on-its-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In about five days I will have my latest addition to my growing lens collection for my Sony A33 camera. I have purchased a Sony SAL30m20, which is a 30 mm prime macro F2.8 lens. I am really hyped about this little lens becuase the one thing I am lacking right now in my photography is a good wide angle lens. Of course, having a lens with a 1:1 ratio is great, but this lens has a minimum working distance of just under 2 cm! That is very close. ]]></description>
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		<title>Full Moon Capture &#8211; Got It!</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2012/02/07/full-moon-capture-got-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be my last Moon shot for a while. Not becuase I am getting sick of shooting the Moon with my camera, but becuase Vancouver is now going back into its normal cycle of winter weather. I predict that we are going to have several weeks of overcast skies, and rain to go with it. The last Six days have been a blast with getting out and taking some outdoor photography with super clear skies and warm sunny days. I will miss this.]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting the Moon &#8211; Photography</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2012/02/05/revisiting-the-moon-photography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am going to revisit the Moon. As we are on our third crystal clear night in the middle of winter, the Moon was calling me, again. This shot was just only one of five that I took of it. Using the same setting as I did from Feb 2nd, 2012, I just cranked up the shutter speed as the Moon is now almost full. ]]></description>
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		<title>Posted my Photos in Video: On YouTube</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2012/02/05/posted-my-photos-in-video-on-youtube/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent some time editing a little video of some of the photos, and a short clip, that I took today from my Sony A33. The video a sort of the spur of the moment project, very amateurish, and I put it together in less than an hour.]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Better Moon Photos With My Sony A33</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2012/02/01/getting-better-moon-photos-with-my-sony-a33/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 02:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a better understanding of my camera now, and it is all starting to sink in--after further reading the owner's manual. I had a golden shot of the Moon today, as it was almost overhead, and past the First Quarter position of its month long cycle around the Earth. Within five shots, and about ten minutes of waiting for a small cloud to pass by, I had my money shot of the allusive Moon with my 200mm telephoto lens. ]]></description>
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		<title>A Shot at the Moon</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2012/01/27/a-shot-at-the-moon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, a shot at the Moon. My luck played in, as the Moon was in the right position, there was a fairly clear evening sky, and I was home with some time to spare; in all, a perfect recipe for a short photo shoot with the Moon. I must have looked like a crazy fool running outside onto the front lawn with all of my camera gear, a tripod, camera bag, and of course my camera in hand. Then fighting to set everything up as fast as I could to start shooting up into the Southern sky. They must have thought I was going nuts.]]></description>
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		<title>Another Shot At Orion &#8211; Night Time Photography</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2011/12/31/another-shot-at-orion-night-time-photography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 07:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally another evening with some clear skies that I can just walk out into my back yard and start shooting the stars. ]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Solstice!</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2011/12/21/happy-solstice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally made it. Today, Solstice, is like Hump-day, everything starts to get better once you pass it. I am so looking forward to the nights getting shorter that it is not even funny any more. Sadly, the depressing thoughts linger as we now enter in the new season, called winter, and we all know that there is still four more months of grey cold days ahead. But to be optimistic, the days are getting shorter from now on for the next six months.]]></description>
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		<title>I Captured Orion</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2011/12/20/i-captured-orion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:59:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After five painful weeks of waiting for good weather, tonight unexpectedly gave way to clear skies, and the constellation Orion above my home. I finally captured Orion on my DLSR. Without further ado, Je présente, Orion.]]></description>
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		<title>Shooting the Stars, But need more Gear</title>
		<link>http://www.thomasso.com/2011/11/30/shooting-the-stars-but-need-more-gear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomasso</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have being doing more than staying up in the middle of the night taking pictures of the night sky, I have being nursing a cold/flu/headache for the last week too. For the record, I have being spending very little time outside. This evening I took the risk of going outside for a few moments to do one last shoot before I hang up the night-time shooting gig until I buy more gear to get the shots I want. I really need to get better from the flu bug that it killing me, but tonight was clear, and the fog was starting roll in from the river, and I figured that this maybe the time to get shots in before the clouds come back. So I compromised and took ten 30 second shots before retreating back in side to warmth. The fog had just started to cover everything when I finished. ]]></description>
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