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In a previous EB thread, I proposed a collaborative Nostalgia Train Layout for this Summer's Brickworld Chicago: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/topic/146028-b...
There is a new EB thread is to determine participation so this is your chance to sign up: www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?/forums/forum/122-lego... We hope that this collaboration will attract many participants by recreating the nostalgic look and feel of the older train layouts featured in Lego catalogs and the train idea book. Unfortunately Brickworld won't permit us enough floorspace to do the large "L E G O" layout I first proposed. Therefor we are moving forward with the alternative shown here: a moderately sized "50" nostalgia layout to celebrate 50 Years of Lego Trains! Here is a description:
- The overall size is 16'x13'
- Only official Lego sets will be featured: track, trains, stations and other sets. We have limited space so priority will be given to train specific sets first, then to general town sets as needed. Upgrades and part substitutions are fine as long as the trains still look original (for example replacing 12v traction tires, re-gearing an Emerald Night, etc).
- This is a floor layout. The green and tan areas are created with colored roll paper taped to the floor. Tracks will be laid down over the colored paper.
- Scenery will consist of loose trees, vehicles and figures placed on the paper between the sets (just like in the catalog pictures :-) Open areas will remain so people can step around for access.
- Security will be addressed by having special stanchions up all show days (not just the weekend public days). These stanchions will feature a additional lower horizontal pipe to prevent young ones from entering the layout area. There should be about 30" between the stanchions and the outermost tracks.
The signup sheet is here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TWLe2n5GGTr_nSR4KT4gXIht1...
Please signup by May 15.
Closer again. Tonight's attempts initially started off as a test for my calculations and recordings spreadsheet that I've spent the last few days trying to write. I learned some excel to do it. Seeing as it seems to give me close estimates of timings, I had a good try to get a certain shape. Not there yet, but a step closer at least.. I just need to get a grip on the controller now.
Over-exploitation. Destructive fishing techniques. Polluting fish farms. If you want to eat ethically, which fish are actually fine for your fork?
Guardian piece:
www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jun/24/information-...
Data:
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WE CAN'T BELIEVE WE'RE DONE!! This has been going on for MONTHS AND MONTHS. It's ABOUT TIME! YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
SERIOUSLY -- This is the happiest we'd been in a LOOOONG time.
Notice how my sock has become a slipper -- close-up in a separate pic.
Actually, we still had some final touch-up sanding to do... But nothing that required wood stain, polyurethane, ventilation, masks, gloves, dropclothes, painter's tape, and all the hassle. Just some casual final touches with the least rough (400-grit) sandpaper to ensure that the finaly (usually 4th) polyurethane coat was smooth.
BACKSTORY: Anyone who reads our contract (link below) can see that it specified to move the closet and built-in shelves. But Virginia Design Builders's workers -- the workers hired by Daniel M. Lopez -- were unable to properly move the closet without destroying it. And they "accidentally" threw away our shelves. They also broke the trim at the edge of the closet.
And then guess what? The asshole refused to stain ANY of it, despite the fact that the only reason the color now didn't match was due to their inability to properly execute a contract. (It was a 3 month contract and was not finished for over 3 years.) This left us having to stain WAY more wood than we otherwise would have. It was quite literally a difference of several months' work, as we both had jobs (at the time), and spare time at home has been in deficit for awhile.
STAINING IS A PAIN: Just for reference, proper wood staining is a MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR pain in the ass. The wood filling, the sanding, the pre-conditioning, staining, the wiping, the dropcloths, the multiple coats of everything, the (4) polyurethane coats [which often required holding a lamp in one hand, to reflect light on it to ensure evenness], and the final sanding. And don't get me started on the timing: Stain 20 minutes after pre-conditioning, but only for 2 hours; stain in 20 minute cycles consisting of 4 sub-cycles: stain area #1, stain area #2, wipe area #1, wipe area #2. Then break, get new gloves, and start over. A 20 minute cycle might equal 2 shelves, or 2 boards from ceiling to floor. Our spreadsheet had over 200 cells. At the end of the day, the only way to get stain off your skin was to apply paint thinner directly to your skin in violation of the instructions, common sense, and one's best interests...
celebrating, doing shots, standing, wood staining.
Cutty Sark, chair, newspaper, shelf, slipper, sock, stool.
dirty. happy.
upstairs, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
July 26, 2007.
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LEGAL: To see an official VA DPOR sanction of $500 (+$150) against Dan Lopez and Virginia Design Builders: www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... These people were suing him for $400K last time I checked.
To see OUR contract with Dan Lopez / Virginia Design Builders: www.acm.vt.edu/~clint/download/filedump/2008/daniel-m-lop... ... Just in case anybody doesn't believe me.
Chaenomeles x Superba - 'Rowallane' (Flowering Quince)
In the walled garden at Rowallane - this cultivar is named after the gardens. The bee hives are just the other side of the wall and there are a couple of feral colonies in the roof of the building beside the garden that seem to have overwintered extremely well judging from the numbers of bees coming out from under the roof there on Saturday.
The very out-of-focus yellow pollen load can be seen in this picture.
for my Honey bees on named flowers set set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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at Rowallane
For my Honey bees on named flowers set set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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A Day Trip to the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway for the Saturday of a 3 day Steam Gala,
As Usual, the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
There were 2 Visiting Engines and some of 5 of the Home Fleet Locomotives scheduled to run on an intensive timetable.
Here, on my first Steam Heritage Railway Visit of 2022, a Cab photo of Loco no. 41241, an Ivatt designed and Crewe Works built Class 2MT 2-6-2T after arriving at Oxenhope Station on my first Train of the day.
For More Info about Loco 41241 ...
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I feel like this is the Common House Spider (Parasteatoda tepidariorum), but my spider senses aren't that acute (get it?). Anyway it clearly was on the site on the site the USDA National Honey Bee Lab where they have research buildings not houses. Photo by someone in the lab who did not fill out the photo spreadsheet. ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~
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We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
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Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World:
www.amazon.com/Bees-Up-Close-Pollinators-Around-World/dp/...
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
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Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
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or
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Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
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301 497 5840
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12 politicians in Japan are against the inhumane decision by the ministry of education raising the limit of annual radiation exposure to the children in Japan from 1 mSv to 20 mSv.
Tomoko Abe (Member of the House of Representatives, Social Democratic Party 4th term)
Yoshifu Arita (Member of the House of Councilors, Democratic Party of Japan)
Mitsuji Ishida (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party of Japan 1st term)
Tetsuo Inami (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party of Japan 2nd term)
Azuma Konno (Member of the house of Councilours, Democratic Pary of Japan)
Kusuo Oshima (Member of the house of Councilours, Democratic Pary of Japan)
Ryuhei Kawada (Member of the house of Councilours, Democratic Pary of Japan)
Ryoichi Hattori (Member of the House of Representatives, Social Democratic Party 1st term)
Makoto Hirayama (Member of the House of Councilors, Democratic Party of Japan)
Mizuho Fukushima (Member of the House of Councilors, Social Democratic Party 3rd term)
Hiroyuki Moriyama (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party 1st term)
Makoto Yamazaki (Member of the House of Representatives, Democratic Party 1st term)
Special Advisor to the Cabinet , Kosako Toshiso resigned today. He said that it's not acceptable for raising annual radiation limit for the children 1mSv to 20 mSv. He also criticized that the crisis management of the government is disorgnazed and haphazard.
www.mbs.jp/news/jnn_4712952_zen.shtml
There's no future for the country which neglect their children. - Masayoshi Son Softbank CEO and Donates USD$120 million to Earthquake and Tsunami Relief Efforts. Also he will set up an advisory group on the use of natural energy sources.
The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends that all radiation exposure be kept as low as achievable, and for the public, on top of background radiation and any medical procedures, should not exceed 1 mSv per year.
For nuclear industry workers, they recommend a maximum permissible annual dose of 20 mSv averaged over five years, with no more than 50 mSv in any one year.
However, on April 19th, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) notified the Board of Education and related institutions in Fukushima Prefecture to raise annual radiation exposure limit from 1mSv to 20 mSv. This is way to high for the children.
20 mSv per year is comparable to the legally recognized dose for inducing leukemia in nuclear power plant workers. It is also comparable to the maximum dose allowed for nuclear power plant workers in Germany.
If the government allows 20 mSv per year for the children, we will see many children suffer from thyroid cancer in five years like what happened on the children in Chernobyl.
Please click the link below and sign the petition for the children in Japan by Sat. April 30, 2011 at 23:00 in Japanese time (UTC/GMT +9 hours)
This petition is only for protecting the children from unacceptable level of 20 mSv
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This petition is being organized by: Green Action, Greenpeace Japan, Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center, Citizens Against Fukushima Aging Nuclear Power Plants (Fukuro-no-Kai), Osaka Citizens Against the Mihama, Oi, and Takahama Nuclear Power Plants (Mihama-no-Kai), Friends of the Earth Japan
Thank you for your support and friendship.
best of a set of not so great pictures a few weeks ago. Must revisit next year.
This is a row of these shrubs at the Ulster Museum in Botanic Park
This picture does show the pale yellow pollen load well
A new one for my Honey bees on named flowers set
And, when i eventually get round to updating it, will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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Reto de La Familia FoteraAquí podéis ver al resto de participantes:
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Emily is curious as to what the grownups are always looking at on the computer. Unfortunately for her, Sebastian was the one just working on it, and it's spreadsheets full of numbers! Not very interesting...
Retos de la Familia Fotera: www.facebook.com/groups/retosfamiliafotera/
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(1950) Voigtländer Vito III (lens: Ultron 50mm f/2)
Fomapan 400 @ ISO 1600
Gossen Lunasix 3 (recently repaired by Blas Iannini)
Epson Perfection 4490
Self-developed with Kodak Hc-110 (dilution B)
'Dilutions spreadsheet' provided by Ralph Lundvall
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Valerian (Valeriana officinalis, Caprifoliaceae) in Bryansford this afternoon.
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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Still flowering (it has been since early January this year) and still being worked by the bees!
Chaenomeles × superba 'Pink Lady' in Rowallane.
AKA: Japanese quince 'Pink Lady'
Rowallane gardens.
& in my Honey bees on named flowers set
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& some music if you like
Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
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A Photo from Day 8 of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
When planning this "Rail Tour" I had hoped to go the Great Central Railway (GCR) at Loughborough but a lack of Timetables on their web site and a shortage of anything i viewed as attractive in terms numbers of Steam Locomotives in service on this day (Saturday) prompted a change of plan.
I decided to go to the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway (EBA) in the morning and I can move onto the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway (KWVR) in the afternoon. It is only about 30 minutes by car between the 2 railways.
As I was leaving Embsay Station, It had started Raining when I took this photo of MG Classic Cars which explains the MG headboard on Beatrice.
In the Background, No. 7 "Beatrice" is almost ready to set off on the next round trip .
"Beatrice" No. 7 is a Hunslet Works No. 2705 0-6-0ST loco.
Off to "ingrow West" Station next for the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway (KWVR).
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Nothing nicer than a cold beer on a beautiful sailing boat with your colleagues after a long day looking at figures and spreadsheets... Cheers!
there was some solar explosion on the 14th of november. i was hoping to see an aurora or something on the sky. i was lucky. two days in a row it was clear sky and really quiet weather. and i saw.. "something". it was beautiful!
on other note.. could you take this survey? i need it for school :) thanks!
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In the walled garden at Rowallane.
showing pollen load - dull yellow colour
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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A Photo from Day 2 of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
At Didcot Railway Centre, their "Diamond Jubilee Gala" had 4 steam locomotives with 2 each on the "Main Demonstration Line" and the shorter "Branch Line." 2 diesels powered some early morning and evening trains.
Several Steam Locomotives were also on Static Display and it was possible to go round the sheds.
Here,
6023 - "King Edward II" - King or 6000 class 4-6-0
and
29 - The Lambton, Hetton and Joicey Loco on loan from NYMR
No 29 is in steam and will later run on the branch Line
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This week-end involved 2 Heritage Railways with the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
Here, after arriving at Sheringham for their Steam Gala Event, I moved along to Weybourne where 8572 was just coming from the sheds and had moved forward to the Station Platform ready to start work on Steam Gala activities.
There were 6 Locomotives in Steam for the Gala Event Sunday.
Cab photo of Locomotive 8572 is a Holden designed and Bayer Peacock built for the GER (later LNER) Class B12 - 4-6-0
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Olympus OM-2n / Kodak Tri-X 400 (shot at EI 320)
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Don't tell me you didn't know that my street work can now be seen at my secondary Tumblr blog, www.tumblr.com/blog/smilefromthestreetsyoushoot. Amazing, isn't it? Enjoy it then, why not? Of course you will. I know, you know it.
Blue Grape Hyacinths - Muscari armenicum
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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A Photo from Day 2 of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
At Didcot Railway Centre, their "Diamond Jubilee Gala" had 4 steam locomotives with 2 each on the "Main Demonstration Line" and the shorter "Branch Line." 2 diesels powered some early morning and evening trains.
Several Steam Locomotives were also on Static Display and it was possible to go round the sheds.
Here, Left to Right are :-
1340 - "Trojan" - 0-4-0ST
5051 - "Drysllwyn Castle" later Earl Bathurst - Castle Class - 4-6-0
5900 - "Hinderton Hall" - Hall Class - 4-6-0
6998 - "Burton Agnes Hall" - Modified Hall Class - 4-6-0
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66727 Maritime No 1 was in town and it impressed some more than others. Those sat sunbathing on the platform didn't seem too enthused. Perhaps they were waiting for one of the orange ones 66419 on the Dewsbury to Earles some 20 minutes later. Not for me as it was back to spreadsheet.
Blue Grape Hyacinths - Muscari armenicum
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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Spreadsheets to write, then data to input. But first, important stuff. Nails to paint and coffee to drink!
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A Photo from Day 3 of a 10 day 9 night "Railway Tour" of 13 Museums and Heritage Railway Locations. The Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
The Swanage Railway runs trains from Norden via Corfe Castle, another station and a halt to Swanage Station or the other way round so there is some very pleasant scenery to look at and photograph when travelling along the line.
There is ample car parking at the Norden end of the line so I started there.
The day I went during the sort of main summer holidays, there were 2 trains running both hauled by Steam Locomotives.
Here, 31806, a Maunsell designed SR U Class 2-6-0 loco has just run round the train to get ready to go back to Norden.
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alerian (Valeriana officinalis, Caprifoliaceae) in Bryansford this afternoon.
For my Honey bees on named flowers set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
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カメラを持って知り合いと訪れた横浜は、いつも雨でした。去年のCP+ の時は、雨を通り越して雪でした。今年は夕焼けに染まる横浜を撮りたいな。撮れるかな。
『JPCO Gallery Spring 2015 / 日本の写真文化を海外へ』
今週の2月11日(水・祝)から2月22日(日)まで、横浜みなとみらい駅構内の「SUBWAY GALLERY M」で、グループ写真展『JPCO Gallery Spring 2015 / 日本の写真文化を海外へ』が開催されます。出展者の在廊予定表はこちらですので、お越しの際はお気軽にお声掛けくださいね♪
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Further picture.
At Rowallane
I have put an easy to search spreadsheet of the whole set of honey bees on named flowers here:
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Wooden finds from Castleshaw Roman fort, late first cent. AD.
Top: despite being identified as a possible pommel, this looks more like the crossguard of a Roman sword (6.7 x 4.6 cm).
Right: pommel. Identified as a Roman dagger pommel, it probably belonged to a sword (4.6 x 4.3 cm).
Left: fragment of oak (7.5 x 4.5 cm).
In The Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, UK. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uLf_h8NFma7jEUpc7dmVbX67C... (nos 194, 197 and 196)
Laura, from the "Portrait Analog Photography Workshop"
Olympus OM-4ti / Zuiko OM 50mm 1:1.4 / Ilford Delta 100
Dev. in Kodak HC-110 Dilution "B"
HC-110 ratios & dilutions spreadsheet provided by Ralph Lundvall
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This week-end involved 2 Heritage Railways with the Main Aim was to get as many Steam Train Journeys to add to my Steam Powered Journeys Spreadsheet which is my modern "Trainspotting" record.
Here, after arriving at the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway (EVR) for their Steam in the Valley 21 Event and going on a journey behind Steam Locomotive "Henry Ellison" from Wirksworth Station on a train up the very steep 1 in 27 Ravenstor Incline, I went along the line to Duffield Station and back hauled by BR Std. 4 Tank 80080.
Here, Back at Duffield Station - half way round my second trip, I got a photo of the other main heritage line loco in use this day GWR 9466.
9466 was designed by Hawksworth as part of the "94xx Class" for the GWR which rather strangely was built at Robert Stephenson and Hawthorn Ltd at Darlington as a 0-6-0PT.
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This is my first successful attempt at astrophotography! The first night was a bust, but I learned what not to do. I'm impressed this is even possible with just an (unmodified) dSLR, a fast lens, a tripod, and special software to process a number of images! The entrance to the park area of Tuttle Creek Lake is reasonably dark and shielded from the lights of Manhattan.
I am currently using Deep Sky Stacker, a free program, to process the individual images. It is critical that the stars do not have star trails, otherwise there tends to be problems precisely registering the images so that they align perfectly. I am using the highest ISO that gathers actual data as opposed to just adding noise. This is dependent on the camera model; it seems to be ISO 1600 for the Canon T2i. Prefer a fast prime lens to a zoom lens, especially when no kind of tracking is available. I used other ISO speeds in an attempt to gather more color information.
Be sure to turn off the display when you are taking pictures. The display will add extra heat to the inside of the camera, which will needlessly add extra heat to the CMOS sensor. For a CCD based sensor the noise doubles for every 6C (10.8F) increase in temperature. I don't know if these numbers conform exactly to a CMOS based sensor, but the principle still applies. While running technical tests on the Canon T2i by shooting a series of dark pictures, I found that the sensor noticeably heats up and produces far more noise. With a comparable set of darks with the display turned on, the sensor heated up even faster and produced a corresponding amount of extra noise. As a side note, with all things being equal and with a camera that isn't temperature controlled, it is better to take astrophotographic pictures while it is cooler outside for essentially the same reason. The cooler ambient temperatures keep the CMOS sensor cooler, which keeps the amount of noise down.
I found the Magic Lantern firmware to be immensely helpful in correctly focusing my lens in live preview and also providing an intervalometer. Focusing with the live preview is helpful, but it is best to take test pictures and compare them on a laptop before you get too far. It is just too hard to tell for sure if the focus is perfect on the LCD screen of the camera. It is better to spend more time upfront than to come back and find that all of your pictures are out of focus.
In the 151 image stack there were 3 sets of images. In each set there were about 50 light frames, 20 dark frames, and 100 bias frames. The dark and bias frames help to greatly reduce the noise in the image. I used photoshop to bring out as much detail and color as possible without emphasizing the noise too much.
Comparing visible stars to the catalog in Stellarium, it appears that the faintest recognizable star is around 13.7 apparent magnitude in the 151 stacked image versus 10.8 apparent magnitude in the single non-stacked image. [Apparent Magnitude]
I initially thought that 14x times more light was being picked up in the stacked image. (2.512 ^ (13.7 - 10.8) = 14.46) because the faintest recognizable star went from 10.8 to 13.7 apparent magnitude when comparing the single image to the stacked image. I'm not 100% sure any more. I previously thought that light was being gathered in a non-linear fashion with multiple exposures. A discussion on the Deep Sky Stacker Yahoo group, claims that an additional amount of exposure worth of light isn't being gathered in the stacking process. Instead, they say stacking greatly improves the signal in the resultant image, such that the faintest recorded stars are visible above the noise. The faint stars are in all of the exposures, but they are buried in noise. And additionally Blair MacDonald mentions that "In order to be detectable in the image a single star must be about 3 standard deviations above the noise floor."
However, I'm not convinced that no additional exposure worth of light is being added during the stacking process. In an exchange with someone else he says that "… a modern SLR is truly sensitive enough to capture and digitize individual photons. The read noise is generally between 2-20 equivalent photons, so that definitely gets in the way, because the light source you're trying to measure itself has noise (Poisson distribution). But yes, you can stack almost infinitely dim sub-exposures to get a result. The extra time required goes up dramatically at some point, because the read noise accumulates, but it is possible. This is why, all things being equal, longer exposures are better. But most of the time all things are not equal."--anonymous. If cameras are that sensitive, I can see how given enough sub-exposures and stacking, a periodic photon source at a particular pixel that only shows up in every x sub-exposures could still be translated into a luminosity value above zero.
To my knowledge everyone is recommending a certain number of sub-exposures to deal with practical issues, such as noise and tracking issues over very long exposures. John Smith released a couple of papers that are useful in determining the number of sub-exposures in imaging a particular deep sky object. I have created a spread sheet based on his work that should be useful to others getting started with astrophotography. You put in an initial sub-exposure time and total exposure time and it updates two tables. One table shows different options for keeping the same SNR but adjusting the number of subs-exposures and individual exposure times. The other table shows how SNR changes by keeping the total exposure time constant, but varying the number of subs-exposures and the individual exposure times. You can find it here. You should be able to open the spreadsheet either in Open Office or Excel.
There are some options for choosing the number of sub-exposures, but there is a practical minimum exposure that is needed to record the object. The practical minimum will depend on a number of factors. Some of them include the background sky luminosity, the camera/sensor being used, and the target object's luminosity. Keep this in mind when looking at the spreadsheet.
On a related note, I went out again and took over 1,400 images of the Orion Nebula with 200 dark frames! The outing was a bit of a bust because the images were slightly out of focus and had star trails. Despite the problems, I processed them as a massive stack with sigma clipping in Deep Sky Stacker. The image was virtually noise free and it appeared that there was slightly more exposure, but not by a huge amount given the number of pictures. The faintest recognizable star may have been about .5 magnitude dimmer in the 1,400 image stack. Maybe if it had been more in focus, there would have been a more dramatic improvement?
I am working on building a barn door tracker so that I can take much longer exposures and get images that are not practically possible for me right now. Being limited to 1 to 2 seconds at 85mm is very restrictive! It will use an Arduino and a stepper motor for automated tracking. From what I have read, I should be able to get 15x as long exposures (or more) before star trails show up.
In the process of learning more about lenses and astrophotography, I found out that chromatic aberration can be particularly problematic with the use of lenses. Most photographers are more familiar with the variety known as lateral chromatic aberration. But a special kind of chromatic aberration known as longitudinal chromatic aberration (or axial color), shows up as colored fringing that completely incircles objects such as stars. This is caused by the lens being unable to focus all wave lengths of visible light at the same point. My 85mm lens is not apochromatic and thus exhibits this flaw. I have gone back and replaced the original image that I uploaded with a hand corrected version that attempts to visually minimize the color fringing. Color tends to build up perceived contrast, so I greatly reduced the saturation of color in the purplish fringes and replaced the color with a small amount of random color from the background sky. I feel that this change is a noticeable improvement over the original. If anyone has thoughts on this, I welcome their input.
my identifier: orion nebula d
There is a moment here that few ever come to realize---
A proverbial two fingers of ‘reserve proof’ poured into a crystal tumbler, there to be savored sip by sip in just reward---
An equilibrium of sorts in the push and the pull of everyday, a stasis in the corporate heartbeat which those who count beans and stare at computer screens in Fort Worth and Omaha and Jacksonville are perhaps unknowingly deprived of---
Moments that never register as a spike on a graph or spreadsheet or a figure on a quarterly earnings report, and one in which those poor souls sheltered in the glass and concrete facades of Wall Street are seemingly, and hopefully, oblivious to.
They are jealously reserved for those hearty individuals who laced up boots and learned a skill or trade or craft, one that doesn’t involve the tying of a Windsor Knot around the neck every morning and enduring a commute to a cubicle or corner office, there to lash it as a marionette to various rungs about a corporate ladder.
Yet, they are instants of brevity that rarely, if ever, convert to dollars and cents on a direct deposit slip that arrives in the mailbox every other week.
They are as a fringe benefit that only the worthy are afforded, those sage and seasoned souls who earned their credentials in the extremes of physics and metallurgy, and the temperature and other elemental challenges that Mother Nature seemed fit to bestow upon their existence in a 24-7-365 fashion.
When, at midnight, a knuckle lets go and gladhands separate on a grade, and the curses emanating from the locomotive cab are as angry as the lightning slashing from the darkened sky, with sheets of rain arriving in chapter-and-verse proportions straight from the pages of Genesis, threatening to wash from the land all those who dare venture into it---
Someone still has to go out and replace the damn thing.
These character-building moments are steeped well in tradition, their seeds first planted in the Welsh soils of Penydarren, there to be watered fully with saturated steam at the hand of a Cornish fellow by the name of Richard Trevithick.
Water is powerful, and useful, and ancient---
And in its antiquity, it is patient.
That which has fallen upon the geologic ramparts that schism the land from north to south, needs some place to go.
For eons it has sought the seas, and in an effort to reach them it has flowed from headwaters in the Sawatch Range and the Sangre de Cristos, scouring prehistoric and ever-changing channels across the land in a seemingly random and meandering fashion.
The Arkansas and the Cimarron and the Canadian Rivers, along with their local tributaries and a thousand other flows, have removed sediments from the land since the Laramide orogeny, 80 million years ago, and faithfully deposited them into the oceans, leaving the High Plains of today’s continental United States anything but flat.
Water, perhaps more than any other natural element, has been the bane of railroad builders and operators for more than two centuries. It has created rivers to bridge, canyons to blast rights-of-way out of, and then it has sent raging torrents down to destroy both; yet without it, Trevithick’s contraption would remain as fanciful as anything Jules Verne could imagine.
And though the builders of the Southern Kansas Railway had no gorges to contend with, they were nonetheless saddled with the watersheds that rippled the land across Indian Territory and all the way to the bluffs of the Llano Estacado over Texas way.
Here, in the cool and colorful and splendorous moments that precede the dawn of an April morning, is evidence of such.
While the eastbound grade up out of the valley of Wolf Creek is by no means as mentionable as that which tunnels under Raton, it is still held in respect by those who throttle their charges along BNSF’s Panhandle Subdivision.
Our crew aboard an old Dash-9 has reached a brief interlude, an over-the-hump equilibrium of sorts on the great curve at Gerlach, Oklahoma. Just moments before, our hogger set his units for dynamic braking, and trumpeted for the South County Road 198 grade crossing as he coaxed 6,000 tons and just as many feet of train up from Shattuck, in the process rolling over names like Buzzard Creek and Boggy Creek, and running along the margin of Sand Creek, there to push over the top of the grade and have the windshield view filled with this.
In days long passed, when conductors and engineers were revered and respected and were the absolute authorities over their realms---
When brass was polished and boiler jackets shined and lace curtains could be found in the cab and caboose alike---
Coffee brewed on a potbelly stove or was kept hot in a mason jar placed strategically against the locomotive backhead, there to be shared in drowsy moments along a run that began in Amarillo sometime after midnight.
Today, the waycars are long gone and backheads have morphed into digital control consoles, but coffee is still the nemesis of fatigue, with fresh aromas filling the cab as the hot contents of a stainless-steel thermos bottle are poured into a travel mug---
A Rule G-compliant version of ‘reserve proof’ not quite hot enough to burn the tongue with the first sip, but just right.
And in that savoring, there is only the rumble of an FDL behind the bulkhead, and the whine of dynamics as the aged GE performs as advertised.
Nothing else.
No words to spoil the moment.
Only a brief intermission when all the world is right.
A stasis between the push and the pull of life.
While the tie knotters are still fully in slumber, the fortunate take their pleasure in hot coffee and a gaze out over the valley of the North Canadian River, and there before them, as an ornament dangling on the invisible bough of orbital gravity---
The last dying sliver of a crescent moon---
Faint and struggling in the eastern sky, trapped between the receding colors of night and the luminance of an emerging day---
A gift from the universe, either by chance or by design, presented to them at this particular spot on a curve they’ve rounded countless times.
Soon enough the signal at West Gerlach will come into view, and they’ll roll down into Woodward on a ‘clear’ indication.
But for now, in the last few semi-tranquil seconds, there is little else to do but admire creation in all its multi-hued glory.
It never gets old.
One might wonder, only in a joking manner, really, if the view from corporate headquarters could be this magnificent.
Perhaps not audible above the throb and drone of diesel locomotion, a slight chuckle offered forth from the right-hand seat might answer that question---
Not a chance in hell.
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Special thanks to Jeff Ford for his assistance in the preparation of this piece.
Okay, I suck. I haven't been updating Flickr and my pain in the neck store manager is on my case - she even made a spreadsheet!. Please go to Nuke's flickr page and tell her to lay off poor, overworked, tired Sliye. Extra points and maybe free stuff if you call her a hobag. xox
This is the [RnR] Montana Bench - it was released at our beloved Cosmo two weeks ago, but now you can pick it up in store :)
It comes with menu-based texture changes, and they're interchangeable, so you can have dark wood with light leather, or light wood with dark leather or inbetween or all dark or all light! Fancy!
Rhyme nor Reason Main Store:
maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Paracosm/40/194/28
Don't forget, RnR is running a photo comp, any photo containing an RnR item that tags us on flickr is eligible to enter and voting will be done at the end of month live music event in the Paracosm club beneath the store. Last Friday of the month at 7am SLT. Lovely L$ and lots of fun stuff up for grabs. :)
Helleborus x hybridus (Ashwood Garden Hybrids) 'Ashwood Fascination'
Another from Rowallane gardens on Saturday - in the walled garden.
Great to see such great flowers and the bees in winter!
For my Honey bees on named flowers set set
And will also go on the botanically sorted spreadsheet at:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-_uJANb_oKgIZLEvm0mFjYq3W...
And a little music if you like:
Mazzy Star - Flowers in December
I am conditioned to big numbers. They're my thing. I don't blink.
Numbers on a page, in a spreadsheet, in a formula are one thing; easily rationalised.
This is another thing. Everyone of these painted hearts isn't a number. Each was just a single digit in the enumeration of the COVID dead. Except each digit was just a placeholder for a life lost and each their stories, what made up each one is orders and orders of magnitude as a multiplier to this simple head count.
Think of the relationships, the social networks, the health of entire communities impacted.
I blinked.
You know that feeling when you've created a spreadsheet, then spent hours entering data from a paper copy? Then, after a few hours, you think "that's not right". So you investigate, and find out that you haven't been given all the sheets? So now, you need to go through every month, checking if there is missing data?
And you lose the will to live?
That.
I needed a break from the computer. I had a cream cake for afternoon tea break, but needed to wash up first.
I've got another task now, so tomorrow will be yet more data entry. Oh, and there is no elegant way to eat a chocolate eclair!
Spreadsheets to write, then data to input. But first, important stuff. Nails to paint and coffee to drink!
Tati.
La Macarena, Bogotá (COL)
Rolleiflex 6003 Pro (Zeiss Planar 80mm 1:2.8)
Kodak TXP 320 (shot 200, dev. 320 in Kodak Hc-110 Dil. G 1:119)
Minolta Autometer IVF / Epson 4490
'Dilutions spreadsheet' provided by Ralph Lundvall
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