Minor victory thread

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I received permission from my old university to place my lectures on YouTube. I hope this will help someone somewhere. I will link them here when I work out the details. I don't want to just throw up the presentations and talk over them. That works in a classroom where I can be alive in front of them, but not online. I'm thinking about trying the whiteboard thing.
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

evilmike said:
Just amazing!

What settings did you use?
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Thanks! I am on my phone now but I think it was ISO 1600 f/4 12mm. I took a series of 30 second exposure shots and merged them.

I had been doing star trails on one long exposure but the results weren't as good. I had a very overexposed single image that required photoshop.

I've taken advantage of all the clear nights recently to practice for our next camping trip at a dark preserve.[DOUBLEPOST=1411580037,1411579910][/DOUBLEPOST]
PatrThom said:
I'm guessing: "Point camera towards Polaris. Open shutter. Wait 85-90min."
(arc trails look like they are about 21°, which works out to about 90min)

--Patrick
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Pretty much :) I used a series of 30 second shots though.
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

That started as about 180 30 second frames. I removed all the ones with obvious planes, shooting stars (meteor shower last night) and random weird lights then merged them. Then I still saw flaws in the image and took out more and re-merged. Rinse repeat several times :) I think trying to edit one single long exposure would be brutal. Also totally out of my league photo shop wise :)
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

I have to think that merging 180 individual frames at 1/180th opacity would remove planes, meteors...and the stars, for that matter.

--Patrick
 
Sparhawk

Sparhawk

Squidleybits said:
That started as about 180 30 second frames. I removed all the ones with obvious planes, shooting stars (meteor shower last night) and random weird lights then merged them. Then I still saw flaws in the image and took out more and re-merged. Rinse repeat several times :) I think trying to edit one single long exposure would be brutal. Also totally out of my league photo shop wise :)
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I think that the airglow would kill that long of an exposure. Most of the astronomy sites that I've looked at (really enjoy APOD) their star-trail photos are several exposures stitched together to create a good image. Even in the middle of nowhereville there is still the airglow to deal with.
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

Sparhawk said:
I think that the airglow would kill that long of an exposure. Most of the astronomy sites that I've looked at (really enjoy APOD) their star-trail photos are several exposures stitched together to create a good image. Even in the middle of nowhereville there is still the airglow to deal with.
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Single long exposures are awesome in theory but can easily be ruined by lights, battery death and my errors in selecting settings. We live in the woods and it really seems dark, but long exposures pick up so much. Here is what I got the other night in a single frame:



Thank goodness I was using raw and could help it after the fact.




We are going camping soon in a dark preserve and I plan to try a single exposure there because there is no light pollution at all. I will also totally do a series of pictures too just in case :D[DOUBLEPOST=1411701371,1411701340][/DOUBLEPOST]
PatrThom said:
I have to think that merging 180 individual frames at 1/180th opacity would remove planes, meteors...and the stars, for that matter.

--Patrick
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StarStax is magic!!
 
Squidleybits

Squidleybits

Poor @HCGLNS is not as excited by all of their awesome pictures. Some of the Milky Way ones are amazing. I have one good shot that I took recently but it still had a ton of light pollution. Fingers crossed for the weekend.
 
Enresshou

Enresshou

I started brewing my own beer about a year ago and kind of jumped in the deep end by making all my recipes from scratch. I've only got 5 batches under my belt, but my latest one--an IPA--has been both mine and my friends' favorite so far.

Despite firmly being in the "beginner" category, someone dug up a post I made on Reddit and asked my permission to use my recipe/input on how I might make it better now that I've had a chance to taste it. It's a very minor thing, but color me flattered that I made something someone liked!
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Enresshou said:
Despite firmly being in the "beginner" category, someone dug up a post I made on Reddit and asked my permission to use my recipe/input on how I might make it better now that I've had a chance to taste it. It's a very minor thing, but color me flattered that I made something someone liked!
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You'd be surprised how many discoveries start that way.

--Patrick
 
Frank

Frank

Possible minor victory and minor defeat.

Minor victory: I got my girlfriend to try Magic: The Gathering tonight and I'm pretty sure she really liked it.

Minor defeat: If tonight is any indication, she's going to be REALLY, REALLY good at it.
 
WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

Squidleybits said:
Awesome pictures! How is the lens so far?
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This was the first time using it for something other than pictures of our kitten. I'd say so far, so good! We had a few pictures that weren't focused well, but the majority were great. The real test will be during Noah's football games next month.
 
WasabiPoptart

WasabiPoptart

Also...I wrote a paper about domestic violence in the military community. I had a hell of a time piecing together a minimal amount of information specific to the military into 8 pages. It sucked. I even turned it in late (only by a few hours, but still late) because I was trying to squeeze more info out of peer-reviewed articles that barely gave me anything to begin with. I was dreading this grade.

I got a 95.

:minionhappy:
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

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GasBandit said:
Yeah yeah, I eat a lot of things nobody should eat.

And I'll not go to my grave saying "I've never had cheesy bacon beef beer stew."
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Ok, so I tried it.

It tastes like standard campbells cheese and meat soup with a heady aroma of beer. I'm left a little underwhelmed.
 
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