FULL is approaching! The next full Moon will occur on Friday, July 23, 2021, at 10:37 PM ET,

[elleng]

[SheltieLover]

1. Gorgeous, Ellen!

[niyad]

2. Just lovely.

[PJMcK]

3. Your photography is wonderful!

A full moon means high tides for me. They look great but I have to worry about tides and currents.

T=Fantastic picture, though.

[elleng]

4. Oh RIGHT, PJ, you have a BOAT!

Ahoy!

[Retired Engineer Bob]

5. Do you have a link to a description of your equipment?

Been thinking about buying a telescope. It would need to be transportable, viewing conditions at home are bad. Any suggestions?

[elleng]

7. Nikon COOLPIX P900 Digital Camera

The P900 is outfitted with controls familiar to both Nikon COOLPIX and DSLR shooters. Very familiar to the consumer DSLR crowd, the camera features the same "PSAM mode control dial" that rides atop most of Nikon's DSLR cameras.


((I don't know what most of that that means!!!))

[elleng]

8. The Nikon P900: The New King of the Superzooms

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/photography/hands-review/nikon-p900-new-king-superzooms

Make no mistake: the Nikon COOLPIX P900 is a photo-taking telescope that you hold in your hand. The superzoom point-and-shoot camera has been around for years, albeit under the radar, as the point-and-shoot market has been waged in a war against two competing genres of cameras. On one end: the smartphone camera. On the other: the entry-level DSLR camera with its lower and lower price point. If the point-and-shoot is going to survive this war, it is the superzoom camera that will save it. Put simply, there is no smartphone or DSLR on the planet that can reasonably be as versatile as the superzoom point-and-shoot camera, and the COOLPIX P900 has just raised that game.

[Retired Engineer Bob]

9. Thank you so much for your replies

You are getting great results with your hand held. My husband and I were up in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Skies were perfectly clear, moon gone, no nearby lights. I told him to look up. I still remember his reaction to seeing the heavens so clearly. He had no idea it could be so spectacular.

[Retired Engineer Bob]

6. Beautiful photo by the way.