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Here's the timelapse I also captured on the 19th. About 38 minutes of images condensed down to about 15 seconds (~150x speed).I wasn't sure at the time whether I had gotten anything cool, but this...
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I don't know who needs to hear this right now, but I want to remind you that it's possible to change.It doesn't matter who you are, there's something for which all that's actually stopping you is an...
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Don't let your mind make excuses about how something can never happen. Reality is the true judge of what's possible.How do you *know* you can't do it? What's your evidence? Have you actually *tried* to...
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I'm not a pessimist because I don't think it's possible for people and society to improve.I'm a pessimist because so many people simply refuse to change, even when everything is pointing to its necessity.
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How can you expect the world to change for the better if you can't even accept it's possible to change yourself? It's logically incoherent.Changing yourself won't fix all of the world's problems, but...
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The sun from this evening.The bottom right area has some cool prominences. There's a large filament loop just barely visible.#solar#astrophotography
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I wanted to capture a longer timelapse tonight, but the clouds conspired against me and generally the seeing gets worse as the sun sets. Kinda disappointed because the placement of the sunspots on both...
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I was thinking that I was being overzealous by waking up early to catch some pics of the sun before work, but I was greeted by the biggest loop prominence I've ever seen (bottom right) 👀It was "plasma...
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For context, here's an image from NASA of a similar event, but at an angle so you can see what I'm talking about.
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I tried something different today with my full-disk photo. It's actually a composite of two stacked images: one at the normal exposure, and another at the same exposure but a higher gain to get more...
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And I also managed to get about a 1.5 hour long timelapse sequence, which I'm super pumped about. Would have kept going, but the scope wasn't in a spot where I had a constant line of sight of the sun....
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In the ADHD mode of "why does life have to be so fucking difficult all the time?"
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I'm going to be buying some HDDs to add to my NAS to have a huge space to archive my #astrophotography data.The question is how much I want to invest in this. Buying a bunch of 20 TB drives would be...
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Also, it's kind of insane to me that 20 TB hard drives exist and are reliable to any degree.
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uspolJohn Oliver did a segment about what Trump's second term would look like if he were elected. I started watching it, and then thought better of it and closed it. It would only make me depressed,...
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Random uspol thought, Santa ClausI just realized that Santa Claus is basically the ideal American political candidate:- Elderly white man- Charismatic celebrity- Maintains a comprehensive surveillance...
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I just want to say that I am grateful for the people who have openly discussed their challenges with disordered eating.I don't have the same issues, but it has helped me recognize some unhealthy...
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I don't understand people that get upset when others discuss their personal issues in the open. I usually end up learning something about myself when I read about other people's struggles, even if I...
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No person is perfect. We all have our demons, many of which are rooted in the same cultural failures.It benefits everyone to acknowledge those failures. Acknowledging an issue is the first step to...
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I feel like I've grown a lot as a person since coming out as trans. Obviously, most of that was reckoning with my gender, but a lot was simply getting a different perspective on how our societal...
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