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I put up the recipes, only via link instead of on the page Yugo you didn’t miss memos.

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//edit–the last one (potatoes) linked okay–it can stay!!

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Elsinore in case you miss it there, I fixed my coding and reposted; please delete all three of the first postings, thanks!

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“Bwaaaaains.”

LOLz, exactally!

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Thanks guys.
Tony is also looking to feature Farktography more in blog posts.

Aroo? Tell me more!

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That is pretty damn amazing. I still get excited when I can make out the big dipper.

I’ve gotta head down to the desert sometime and hang out with you guys in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night where no one can hear you being mugged.

Or raped.

//sayin’.

Damn, Rav, you were up late! The Lagoon and Trifid don’t rise til like 4AM this time of year! Beautiful stacks, I gotta say…

Thanks; I have a shot of the Whirlpool Galaxy I like also, but it was way difficult–the 1/4 moon was still up (actually–it was for the Sunflower, also)

Man, I’m bummed over the IR mod for you. Have you spoken with the folks who did the mod? That ain’t right…IR block removal normally results in beautiful astrophotos; it’s a 2+ stop increase in HA sensitivity.

I’ll post more on this sometime in the near future.

Those darks make quite a difference, don’t they? Most folks look at you like you’re from Mars when you start running off a bunch of exposures with the lens cap on 😆 It’s anti-intuitive until you realize what’s going on.

True, but I use the time to jump around and dance and move, to keep warm. 🙂

I love your shot. I wanted to capture more in that area (in fact, I did get one more, about 3 frames, I don’t even know what it is!), but the light of dawn approached. And I’d like to spend some time doing the piggybacking rig, I just was focused (ah-hah!-ha) on deep sky this time.

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This is awesome. I can think of 11ty captions for this. Including “The zombiepocalypse shall be breed-worthy” (insert photoshopping of child, in tones of green).

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That’s sad news, Elsinore. :o(

Archive friendly is a goodness.

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Damn. I’ve wool-gathered at the ‘rents place and behind the telescope and behind the post processing of astrophotos, and I’m left with nothing. Archive diving. Thank goodness I know the recipes that go with them by heart. We’ll see how it goes.

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The list. We should be discussing this now. Where do we begin?

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I’m back from astro-excursion #3. I am learning, but the curve is steep (I’ve found steep curves work for astrostuff, at least the deep sky stuff).

The IR converted camera? Dud. Useless. Worse than useless, in fact. I’ve written it off as a bad experience. *sigh*

However, the rest of my skill sets are improving. I’ve figured out how to get a mean tracking done using just the sun–not even a compass, that worked well enough till the sun went down. I was about a degree off the mark. When I have the scope level, though, I can set it to track balls-on perfectly. The solar shots are good–but not at the resolution that works well here for posting. I have them up at G+.

Meanwhile, a few stacks:

The Wild Duck Cluster, a favorite of mine. Full of stars:

The Trifid Nebula:

The Lagoon Nebula:

And last (and leastly bright) the Sunflower Galaxy:

All of these are multiple images stacked with multiple darks, processed in Deep Sky Stacker (which I’m improving in, slowly), then finished in Elements.

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Thanks. Maybe I should skip two weeks more often.

I have nothing yet for this week. Plus, I’m on-call… But I have an idea or two.

I haven’t cleaned the apartment in ages, but I have ample archive material (I hope!)

But…maybe I’ll do one fresh meal. I haven’t done my white-sauced enchiladas in a while…

Ulle; maybe the U-Woman can cook something and you can just take piktures?

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It’s midnight Sunday morning and I think I can congratulate U-man on his win this week. When I saw this a few weeks ago (over on G+) I was hugely impressed and hoped to not have to go against it in a theme…such as this one. Such a great shot.

I’m holding my breath for 2nd, but emiliogtz‘s first-ever fark entry is so awesome, I think it may overtake my ‘top’ shot. I hope to see his(her?) pictures again in the future. That one is SO well done!

//I’ll happily to settle for 3rd against the both of them. 🙂

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I know it’s been rough on you and Kes. Glad you’re taking action–self worth is not about wealth, keep in mind.

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U-man had better watch out; his exclusive market for cute kids is about to lose it’s corner…

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