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The classic #astrophotography dilemma: wait to capture more data on a target to make it look really good, or make do with what you have and capture something new
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Doesn't help that the data I do have is from last week during an almost full moon and from my apartment (light pollution). It's enough to make an interesting pic, but I feel like getting data from a...
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Something I was thinking about last night is that I've noticed that part of the reason I find it motivating to work in the office (and around others more generally) is because of a desire to impress...
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I guess, the thing that confuses me about this urge is why it only happens when I'm in physical proximity. This doesn't happen for me online. Like, what is about *being near someone* that makes it...
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Like, is it theoretically possible to replicate the missing thing in a hypothetical communications platform, or is it fundamentally a feature of biology and physical proximity that can never be...
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Is social media alienating and isolating because we're being too lazy in how they are designed to function, or because it's just a fact of how our ape meat brains work that it will always be alienating...
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I've been thinking about getting a "real" SDR (something a bit better than my basic rtlsdr stick). I'm defaulting to getting a HackRF, but that's been around for a long time and I'm not sure what the...
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FYI, for (most of) North America and northwestern Africa, Mars will be occulted by (go behind) the Moon on Monday night, Jan 13 for NA and early Tuesday morning, Jan 14 for Africa!Mars will disappear...
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So turns out the target in question could use more/better data.Between the nearly full moon and light pollution, there just wasn't enough signal there to get a clean pic. I might try to capture more...
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I might complain about the quality of this pic, but as a friend just pointed out to me, I did manage to capture a 48 million year old signal, which is pretty amazing lolI don't know, I guess it's that...
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Like, yeah, not everyone could get even this "okay" image, but basically all I did was casually browse Telescopius for interesting galaxies that are near opposition and in the right part of the sky,...
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I am kind of curious how people did #astrophotography with film. Digital cameras and stacking are intuitive to me, but I have no idea if stacking is even possible with film or how to do it. Like, yeah,...
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It's been so long since I've done any solar #astrophotography that I'm seriously considering taking the day off tomorrow because it's supposed to be sunny here
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This project has been on the back burner since this summer, but I finally got around to finishing it up. I'm sooo in love with how it turned out 😍Elephant's Trunk (IC 1396) in narrowband SOH...
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I listen to the Trashfuture podcast, and last week Hussein made a comment that I can't stop thinking about:AI is a fundamentally anti-social and anti-human technology because the use-cases for the tech...
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Hmmm.... should I set my telescope up out front tonight and maybe catch Mars slip behind the Moon, or stay inside and not freeze my tits off?
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I did end up setting my scope up last night to get pics of the occultation. It was cold af, but I got some good data. I'll have more to share when I have time to do some processing, but I made up...
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For a while now, I've been working on getting a DSLR lens to work for my astro cameras so I can easily get high-quality wide-field astrophotography shots. I like how whenever I try to upgrade this...
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