bipolarben

joined 1 year ago
[โ€“] bipolarben@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago (19 children)

Yes. 88 Octaine is 15% ethonol instead of 10%.

[โ€“] bipolarben@beehaw.org 13 points 8 months ago

This is why Xfinity just sent me a note saying they're graciously increasing my upload speed to 20mbps. How nice of them. ๐Ÿ™„

[โ€“] bipolarben@beehaw.org 10 points 11 months ago

Say hello to Mater Tom.

 

I've finally broken my months long dry spell and imaged another astrophotography target. This time it's NGC281โ€ฆ the Pacman Nebula. Squint really hard, tilt your head to the left, and imagine your looking at it though a crappy telescope in the 1980's. Do you see Pacman?

[โ€“] bipolarben@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

This is the way.

[โ€“] bipolarben@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I think so, but I'm not sure how. I think some other phones are compatible and will 'just work' with Google's camera app. Others need some configuration with 3rd party software. I've never done it.

[โ€“] bipolarben@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I think this was ~4 minutes worth of exposure time. I took this with my Pixel phone and Google's astrophotography mode, which is part of the Night Sight setting. When the phone realizes it's completely still, like on a tripod, and it's looking at the sky, it gives you the option of taking pictures like this. It actually takes a lot of short exposures and stacks them. It's a very automated process, so there's not much tweaking to do. I do wish they gave the user more control.

The setup for this picture was just my Pixel 6 Pro on a tripod pointing up. :)

[โ€“] bipolarben@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's an airplane traveling though as the exposure was happening.

 

Here's a picture I took of the Milky Way with my phone. My telescope rig is out of commission until I get my new (used) observatory up and running. I need to install the dome rotator, but I'm waiting on a part to arrive before I can finish.

This is all I've got for now. I took this last weekend with my Pixel phone in astrophotography mode.

If you want to see my older images, I have quite a few posted on Astrobin here: https://www.astrobin.com/users/BensAstroStuff/

[โ€“] bipolarben@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Unless you multiply yourself by the speed of light... Then, you energy.

[โ€“] bipolarben@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Our eyes are not nearly sensitive enough to be able to see an image like this. It can only be brought out with a camera and lots of exposure time. This image is over 4 hours of exposure time with a dedicated camera designed for astrophotography. You'll still see amazing things with that telescope! Clear Skies!

 

I took this picture from my backyard in April. More details on my Astrobin page: https://www.astrobin.com/hoeyl5/

[โ€“] bipolarben@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Planting grapes and irises, then going to the local Italian restaurant for dinner. Tomorrow, picking up hay for the donkeys. Playing Valheim between all that. ๐Ÿ˜†

[โ€“] bipolarben@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Oh no! What is the Spiffing Brit going to make a new video about?! ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] bipolarben@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I've been playing a lot of Valheim lately. I run a small server for my family and a couple friends that get on occasionally. We just made our first visit to the mountains, but we made it to the plains first. That was pretty brutal.

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