View allAll Photos Tagged Solve
The title is a quote from Susanna Clarke's novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell.
Also, NECA's Alien Queen Mother is amazing!
last night session just to sort out my plate solving issues and my psychotic PHD2 program. Good news I did sort that stuff out.
I just swung over to the Crescent Nebula to take a test image. I did not think an unmodded camera would be worth it on this image (especially with the moon) but after seeing the whole nebula in a single 2 minute exposure, I thought, hmmm.... why not.
My tracking was still terrible. Mostly because I had the balance wrong (at 12:30 realized was WEST heavy and at zenith). So every frame is trailed but whatever.
26@ 120 seconds
ISO 400
100 BAIS
no flats
no darks
AT65EDQ
dithered
Nikon d5300
Celestron CG5 with OnStep (Howard Dutton) and belt and motor upgrade
The worst aluminum tripod filled with sand to make better
QHY 5LII-M guide camera
Orion 50mm mini guide scope
DIY FocuserPro2 arduino focus motor ( Robert Brown)
Software: APT, PHD2, CdC, Sharpcap, ASCOM POTHUB, DSS, Pixinsight, PS/ACR, Team Veiwer.
PS Plug ins: Nik Define 2, Astronomy Tools
Location: backyard, Bortle 4 skies
quick edit, not my final offer
Americans have lost confidence in their government. We no longer trust our legislators and the Supreme Court to solve our country’s problems: income inequality, affordable health care, a woman's right to decide what’s best for her health, the economy, and climate change. Governance has become a series of battles. It’s no longer just political ideology. We are at war over cultural issues while our politicians ignore our basic needs.
The morals of our GOP legislators and their sycophants are just as important as their economic policy. How can we trust a party that Alex Patton, a Florida-based Republican consultant and pollster, has characterized as a party that “has become mean and driven by emotion on whom we dislike.”? “But,” he says, “that is the driving force in American politics right now.” That is the driving force of the GOP, not the Democrats. This is not an example of the equality of "bothsidesism."
In my essay, “It’s Time to Release Our Own Kraken!” I outlined the history of the Republican Party’s “below the belt” tactics. They continue to be underhanded to this day. But with the low level of civility in our present polarized country, many Republican legislators now in office have hit new ethical lows.
As a visual artist who has spent over a decade creating posters about the sorry state of American political discourse, this year I began a new series of portraits, “Faces of the Republican Party.” The men and women in this series deserve to be taken to task for their unwillingness to compromise, belief in conspiracy theories, and disdain for the LGBTQ+ community, women’s rights, and our children’s education. The purpose of our government is to solve our nation’s problems. It’s not a place for personal vendettas or manufactured cultural issues.
“Faces of the Republican Party” is not a partisan series of portraits. Merriam-Webster defines the word as “a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person, especially one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance.” The people depicted in these images are the partisans. Instead, my series is a documentary and op-ed showcasing the facts in 2022. All of these people had a hand in trying to overthrow the government. These images are MAGA Republicans who put their blind allegiance to Donald Trump and their careers ahead of the needs of the American people.
The results of the 2022 midterm elections showed we are tired of autocratic and self-absorbed politicians. We would simply like our officials to do the jobs we elected them to do. Everyone deserves a piece of American Exceptionalism. As it stands, there is nothing exceptional about the tribalism these people promote.
Republicans are perfect examples of Patton’s “driving force.” This force is dirty, mean, misogynistic, selfish, and wastes our tax dollars. These people are just a small sampling of individuals responsible for the loss of credibility and faith in America’s institutions. And worse, they couldn’t care less.
Feel free to pass this poster on. It's free to download here (click on the down arrow just to the lower right of the image). Each has a special Creative Common's copyright that allows you to share these images as long as there is attribution, no derivatives, and you do not use these for commercial purposes.
See the rest of the posters from the Chamomile Tea Party! Digital high res downloads are free here (click the down arrow on the lower right side of the image). Other options are available. And join our Facebook group.
Follow the history of our country's political intransigence from 2010 to 2020 through a eight-part exhibit of these posters on Google Arts & Culture.
Starting with "Bright Green Under" and a cube in a corner of a field...
When I took the shot I had hunted in vain for any information sign...so hence the internet search as I posted...
I wasn't very successful to start...
And then I remembered Geograph m.geograph.org.uk "The Geograph® Britain and Ireland project aims to collect geographically representative photographs and information for every square kilometre of Great Britain and Ireland."
So I checked our GPS route to work out which grid square I thought it was in..
Then I found the advanced search on Geograph - that took a few attempts so I have saved the link here www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?form=text
Then I looked for images within 1 km of SK1664 (the grid reference) as it was on an edge.
I spoted a shot - and it gave me the extra word of Limestone and and the idea to include Cales Farm in the search (Neil had put in grid square SK1663 www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3596177
I then headed back to Uncle Google search with "bright under green limestone cales farm"
Bingo!
www.sitesofmeaning.org.uk/site14/details14.htm
Full information from Sites of Meaning...
inscription - Bright Under Green Limestone Edges. With Queen Ann Lace and Cranesbill in her Hedges
Michael Dower
proposer Emma Youatt
mason Heritage Stoneworks
location West Footpath to Cales Farm from Long Rake.
grid reference SK 16495 63959
notes Sometimes called the Bugle Stone, after the name of the community newspaper that Emma Youatt founded and edited.
From www.sitesofmeaning.org.uk/preface/about.htm
Sites of Meaning was a millennium project of Middleton and Smerrill in the Derbyshire Peak. It marks the seventeen entrances to its parish with boundary stones each inscribed with a text chosen by members of the parish.
So hopefully if we trip over any of the other 16 stones I'll remember where to look.
If you've got this far, I was rather chuffed I found the information and hence the rather laboured notes above on how I got there. Now, was I meant to be doing anything else this morning, I think the "to do" list will win again today!
LEGAL DISCLAIMER: I Do Not Condone Any Acts Of Vandalism Nor Do I Participate In Such Criminal Activity. I Am Simply An Observant and Take Photos Of This Graffiti You Have Come Across. ALSO I Will Not Condone Any Usage Of My Photos To Support Any Legal Matter Involving These Acts Of Vandalism Therefore YOU ARE NOT WELCOME TO VIEW OR TAKE THIS MATERIAL For ANY Purpose...
Guess its galaxy season and I was looking to add some detail to a wide field shot of M81&82.
The data looked good enough at this scale so im posting it until I get finished with the whole shot even though the seeing wasnt the best this night.
Ha was not long enough but I was really just filling time while the moon was out.
This is also a bit of a crop since I did a meridian flip and it wasnt aligned the best , did learn a new trick on my hand controller to set a user object and have it be the center of the frame to do the flip with.
39 5min subs with no filter and 13 10min Ha subs from a semi dark sky at ISO 1600 stacked in DSS and then adjusted in PS CS2. Canon 500D(Gary Honis modded) being run by Backyard EOS , Orion Atlas mount and the scope is a Celestron 8" SCT with a .63 focal reducer(FL 1280) and a 7x40mm finderscope as a guide scope.
I will accept my Nobel Prize with grace and humility for solving this age old problem. Thank you all :-)
No more pinholes but this developer is really black in the shadows. Agitation is every 15 sec. Might try once every minute next time to reduce the contrast.
2/5
Sam Robson, aka "Robbie" (1/6 Dark Zone Agent) is pondering the best way to protect his client while on a ski trip in Vancouver.
Not to worry, his coat and hat are beside him on the bench.
Canon EOS 40D, Canon EF 85mm ƒ/1.2L II USM prime @ ƒ/1.2, ISO 1600, .8 sec exposure, camera sitting on a folded coat in lieu of tripod as I didn't have one with me.
I find that the faster you shoot these, the more subtle colors you get. Long exposures tend to make the quick flicks of rarer colors blend into one another; I was fortunate to have the ƒ/1.2 lens along.