#soylent | Logs for 2023-10-15
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[08:19:08] <Ingar> I hope someone did watch the eclipse!
[08:21:07] <janrinok> There are loads of photos on imgur.com - it seems like most of America were watching and taking pictures
[08:22:01] <Ingar> hi janrinok
[08:22:32] <janrinok> well, most of America that could see it .... Quite a few were annoyed by cloud.
[08:22:37] <janrinok> hi Ingar
[08:22:52] <Ingar> the cloud, the bane of every astronomer
[08:23:01] <janrinok> yup
[08:24:04] <Ingar> no eclipse here obviously :( but I can share you a Heart Nebula http://ingar.intranifty.net
[08:24:04] <janrinok> some very good effects in reflections with even tree canopies creating a 'pin-hole' camera effect. Quite bizarre
[08:24:38] <janrinok> nice piccie!
[08:24:44] <Ingar> thanks :)
[08:26:50] <janrinok> is thank link suggesting a 7 hour exposure time?
[08:28:12] <Ingar> yes, 7hr total exposure time
[08:29:16] <janrinok> that has some very impressive stabilisation!
[08:29:18] <Ingar> I had more, but I usually take the top 80% images or so
[08:29:49] <Ingar> janrinok: it's not a single exposure, fortunately ;-)
[08:30:12] <Ingar> 300-sec exposures here
[08:30:37] <Ingar> (getting 300 seconds stable is hard enough as it is)
[08:30:51] <janrinok> ah, ok, that makes more sense
[08:31:44] <Ingar> software 'averages' all the images into the final result
[08:32:32] <janrinok> understood - but I thought for a moment you had come into the money and were now competing with the other research telescopes around the world !
[08:33:14] <Ingar> janrinok: if that were the case, I would have been in Texas or Mexico watching the eclipse ;)
[08:33:20] <janrinok> how long does the software take to process all the images together?
[08:33:22] <Ingar> with a drink in my hand
[08:33:52] <Ingar> janrinok: in my case, a few minutes, but I have 16 cores to throw at it
[08:34:11] <janrinok> still impressive - how much memory?
[08:34:38] <Ingar> my PC has 64GiB, you don't need that much though
[08:35:03] <Ingar> most of the time goes into postprocessing anyway
[08:35:24] <Ingar> you need to seriously mess with the result in the gimp
[08:35:49] <janrinok> that will slow you down
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[08:36:25] <janrinok> now why has that bot suddenly died?
[08:36:33] <Ingar> janrinok: on the other hand, it's a 'the artistic' side of the hobby
[08:37:04] <Ingar> mold the image to your liking
[08:37:07] <janrinok> I can see the attraction.
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[08:37:35] <janrinok> ah, chromas' account has died too, that explains it.
[08:37:58] <Ingar> the issues is, stars are very bright, and other stuff is very dark. you need to "stretch" out the colors to get something visually pleasing
[08:38:05] <Ingar> that, and filter out the light pollution
[08:38:15] <janrinok> who do you share your images with?
[08:38:45] <Ingar> mostly some facebook, discord
[08:39:00] <Ingar> I've should setup a dedicated webpage .. but hey.. effort
[08:39:30] <janrinok> yeah, I understand. I have many things that I would like to do but can't seem to get the time to do them
[08:40:17] <Ingar> I'm with the pragmatic school of thought. Whatever is in git, is in git. Anything else isn't.
[08:41:16] <Ingar> and I was outside at 2:30am :-p
[08:41:42] <janrinok> I suppose I _should_ be getting on with other things now too..... Does the lack of sleep spoil the next day?
[08:42:43] <janrinok> Have you thought about writing some for a submission or for your journal?
[08:43:00] <janrinok> Particularly about the equipment and software
[08:43:04] <Ingar> sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I have a weird relation with sleep
[08:43:56] <Ingar> janrinok: I though wrioting a journal a few times, never got around to it though.
[08:44:22] <Ingar> I'm currently preparing a small event for the upcoming lunar eclipse, might be a good opportunity to do so
[08:44:55] <janrinok> if you want to throw something together, with a few links to photos, we can smarten it up for you if you wish. It doesn't need to be a thesis or anything :)
[08:46:53] <Ingar> tbh, I've been slacking in writing to my personal log, it would be a good excuse to pick it up again
[08:47:47] <janrinok> you do whatever you enjoy - it was only a thought, and there is no pressure on you. But I suspect it will get more interest than many of the other stories that we are currently showing.
[08:49:12] <Ingar> I'll let you know if I write something up :)
[08:49:46] <janrinok> only if and when you want to. Gtg for a while and do some other things but I will be back on later.
[08:50:13] <Ingar> cu later
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