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I’ll have to look into the RAID options, then.

And yeah, XP is going out when everyone quits coding in 32bit. It’s getting to the point now that XPs memory cap has become an insurmountable hurdle. Sounds so strange to be saying that 3G of RAM ain’t enough.

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But I do believe some modification was involved.

Why do I hear maniacal chuckling?

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At the same time, who would’ve foreseen 1TB drives for $90

Newegg had 1.5TB WDs for $50 some time ago… been moving all my old drives onto 3 of them.

Can I mix RAID? ie a standard boot drive with redundancy or acceleration on the storage?

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Lazy bitches.

/musta been drinking when I wrote that… I’m sure I meant it non-asswholishly…

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^ citation needed 😆

ohpleasepleasepleaseplease scan and post…

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I really miss Windows95. As far as I’m concerned, everything since W98 is just bloatware… Who in 1995 thought we’d ever have an OS that took a full Gigabyte of hard drive space?

*Grumble*Grumble*Grouch*

That’s why ours will be a *nix household, eventually.

/not evangelizing

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Good lord how my wife complained when I forced her from IE to Firefox years ago. I had to, I was cleaning out malware weekly from her machine. I finally told her I wasn’t going to maintain her machine anymore unless she cut the cord with IE.

When XP becomes completely deprecated, she’s moving to Linux.

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I missed it when it landed here a few years back (the local field was an alternate landing site for piggy-back stops when Edwards was used). I’ll never get a chance now! 😆

Nice shots! And hell yeah, pimp some of that! 😉

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^yup. I’ve seen the auroras ONCE in my life. I really need to move back up north. Beautiful shots, soosh!

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I’ve had no end of grief with uploaders in general. Part of that’s my fault for being a Linux weenie, I guess. Work uses IE, and I’m one of the few upgraded to IE7 (newest available behind the firewall); most are still on IE6.

I’ve always thought it was pretty poor planning to base a large portion of your employee/database interface on a web browser that breaks standards. Every time we upgrade we have to re-tool all of our websites enterprise-wide, and we’ve got a farking huge intranet; all tied into one database or another… old UNIX stuff, mainly, but if you can name a database package from the past 30 years, you can bet we’re using it for something. 😆

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This seems relevant here. It’s a big help to anyone under light-polluted skies. Old, but the info is still useful.

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I’m hoping the terrestrial just gets blurred and it locks on the stars. If not I’ll load them up in another app and try to apply manual control points. The kicker is that the time I spent taking subs was when the side of my planet was facing a relatively boring stretch of sky 😆 I may drop that lens on the old 300D and simply lay it on the ground over the summer at some point and let it catch the milky way passing overhead. I won’t get 180 degrees, but it will still get most of the sky at 6.3 megapixels while I concentrate on longer focal lengths with the hi-rez body.

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Take the laptop. Unless you’ve got a deck of cards you’re gonna need a data dump. If you’re worried about using it, leave the charger at home (assuming you have a good battery), then you’ll be limited to using it only for storage.

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Astrophotography I think is mostly noise control, at least from the processing side. Tracking/guiding is a bit pricey, but just about any DSLR bolted to just about any lens will show you the sky better than most expect.

I found this in the stack of subs tonight (I have yet to touch the fisheyes that I actually have darks for). It’s 30 seconds at ISO3200 and 24mm f4. Look at the trailing in 30 seconds on the “original” size, then look around in the lower part of the image and notice the hot pixels and the noise floor. Those are what you need to minimise or filter out (rav knows this, I’m directing this more towards Yugo and anyone else who wants to try stacks). Now compare that noise with what you see in a normal <1sec exposure. Now imagine what that noise looks like after 4 minutes. That's what I've got for the fisheye shots. I'm going to try to stack them, but there is rotating landscape in the FOV so I don't know if my alignment tool is going to lock on the stars or the landscape or simply lose it's mind. I'll find out, I guess. At the least, I have a good set of darks that I can use to apply noise reduction to single subs.

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You can p.m. me the full sized version…I won’t tell!

heh, might as well let everyone see what happens when you don’t have all the pieces you need….

That’s Antares bottom center, the globular cluster M-4 center right. Rho Ophiuchi is up above about a frame and a half. 100% crop looks presentable, normally. The m42 and horsehead shots I posted were 100% crops from the same image, for instance. The purple stars are because my UV filter was off (I need a set of AR UVs badly), my existing filters are not AR and I get prominent ghosts.

No darks=no image, for the most part.

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