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It’s quieter in the country.
Posted on 7 September, 2015 | No CommentsManaged to get away to to PA a couple of weekends ago. Had a good time hanging out with family on their way through, and we got to check out […] -
Stellar(?) weekend…
Posted on 10 August, 2015 | No CommentsMinor febrile knockout aside, I managed to get some pretty good shots of the kiddo, and some of the amazing skies at Mom & Dad’s house this weekend. She really […] -
Avoiding Lunacy
Posted on 29 June, 2015 | No CommentsLunacy, the condition suffered by a lunatic, now used only informally. The term lunatic derives from the Latin lunaticus which originally referred mainly to epilepsy and “madness” as diseases caused […] -
You’ll go blind!
Posted on 1 May, 2015 | 2 CommentsSeriously. You could. Unless you’re paying attention to what you’re doing, and have proper equipment, the activities described in this post could cost you your eyesight. CAVEAT LECTOR. What is […] -
Tidying up a bit.
Posted on 13 April, 2015 | No CommentsSpring is springing, and I need to do some cleaning. As is usually the case, winter brought sloth, lethargy, a general malaise… you get the picture. Despite being upbeat as […] -
Shoot the moon…
Posted on 20 February, 2015 | No Comments…and Mars and Venus. Rare conjunction of these three celestial bodies tonight. The big scope got used for some planetary imaging, but I’m not sure I got usable video to […] -
Spending time to save time… it’s kinda what ORSAs do.
Posted on 19 February, 2015 | No CommentsOver the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working a lot, to make future work worth more. I’ve been installing the various drivers required to get my laptop talking to […] -
32-bit moon.
Posted on 13 January, 2015 | No CommentsLiterally. This moon picture is assembled from 32 individual shots. Each 640×480 sub-image is a stack of the best 50% of frames a webcam video (averaging between 600 and 700 […] -
Facebook sucks at categorizing a year.
Posted on 3 January, 2015 | No CommentsSo, where to begin? The Facebook algorithm does a fairly decent job of picking some representative pictures from your year, and then setting up this “Jim’s Year” scroll-through. Which is […] -
Hours in the dark below freezing.
Posted on 30 November, 2014 | No CommentsAll of the telescope prep paid off. While I did not get to try shooting the GoPro through the lens for video frame stacking, I was able to get to […]