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I like solving weird, meaningless problems because they are a context for learning something new. I like solving problems that I don't know how to solve, *because **I** don't know how to solve them*.I...
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This has been another episode of "Mallory publishes her stream-of-consciousness for no obvious reason"
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And on that note I'm gonna go pack up my scope and go home because my ASIair+ is giving me low voltage warnings. Apparently my backup battery pack (which I almost didn't even bring) is almost dead....
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Speaking of weird solutions to #astrophotography problems. I'm back to thinking about computational tricks to eliminate the need for dark and bias calibration. In this case, setting up the system to...
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You could also use a similar idea and making sure the exposure times are a random selection of a sinusoid, sorting the images so they are back in sinusoidal order, registering them, taking an FFT on...
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For either case, you need to take the pictures in a random order to make sure the signal of interest is uncorrelated with time so things such as temperature changes or cloud cover shifts don't fuck...
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I've long thought about the latter technique and even alluded to it here in a toot a while back. I'm still working up the motivation to actually write the software to try this. Probably just gonna use...
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But this goes back to what I was rambling about last night. I'm sure these techniques would work to some degree, but I have no idea whether it's any better than the calibration with dark and bias...
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I'm being drawn more and more to building my own replacement for the ASIair+ from scratch. Help, I just googled whether there is a python library to control the ZWO ASI cameras (there is)#astrophotography
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I kind of want to building it on top of the Xilinx Zynq platform so I can build some #FPGA acceleration into it. I've always been kind of annoyed how slow the ASIair can be sometimes. It's really...
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I wish I had the ability to dedicate all of my time to a project like this, but the whole "gotta pay the bills" always prevents that.
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The whole point being even if the thing I make *could* be a marketable product that I *could* sell (and thus be possible to turn into an income source and my "job"), I'm not at all interested in doing...
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It's 3:30pm, but I'm in such a sleep deficit that I'm seriously considering just going to bed right now.
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I only was staying awake because I was expecting delivery of my new ASI294MM, but that's here now and I just feel like dying. I'm too tired to even want to play with the camera and verify it works. Soo...
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Things I will never understand: people that always put their trash bins out the night before trash day, regardless of the weather.Like, that's understandable when it's going to be good weather, but...
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Woke up about an hour ago and saw that it was actually somewhat clear out. It's absolutely windy as fuck outside, but it's good enough to play with the new camera I bought, so I reassembled my...
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I've only been playing with it for about an hour, but this $1200 camera (ASI294MM Pro) is way more than 4x better than the $300 camera (ASI178MM) I was using before. Seems like it was a worthy...
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This is literally just a 30x1 minute live stack from the ASIair+ under the some of the most marginal viewing conditions possible (strong winds, partly cloudy, Bortle 6/7), and it still far superior to...
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And with that, I'm going to attempt to go back to sleep again and hopefully get back on a semi-normal sleep schedule lol
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Yeah, so that plan isn't working. Can't sleep. Took some melatonin, so hopefully that knocks me out. I try to avoid melatonin because it tends to make me groggy and kind of out of it the next day, but...
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