Stadric said:
Where exactly in California were you? San Diego?

Yes Sir, as per my travels thread. :biggrin:

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Er...sorry, I missed that.
By Cardiff by any chance?

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Stadric said:
Er...sorry, I missed that.
By Cardiff by any chance?

Exact address: 2500 Terminal Avenue.
National City, Ca.

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You must've taken the San Diego freeway?
That's what I was on two weeks ago on the way to my great grandmother.

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Stadric said:
You must've taken the San Diego freeway?
That's what I was on two weeks ago on the way to my great grandmother.

I-8 to hwy125 to hwy94 to I-5 south to exit 11a.

If your granny lives along that route, then yuppers. :biggrin:

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WARNING: 56k UNFRIENDLY!

Had a great visit with Master Snickers today. Sorry for the picture size, but I have absolutely no editing software on this machine. I did however download XAT and decreased it a smidgen.

Snickers and Orpheus in Austin.

Had a great time Candyman.

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Who's Master Snickers? A snarkpitter? Wouldn't be surprised if it is, I've prolly just forgotten...

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OtZman said:
Who's Master Snickers? A snarkpitter? Wouldn't be surprised if it is, I've prolly just forgotten...

Baron Von Snickers? @_@

Good to hear that ya'll had a good time coming face to face :smile:

A sign of the decline.

2 posts about our meeting. Times past meeting a fellow member would have been noteworthy.

Sometimes I think I'll be glad when Snarkpit is no more. It will greatly simplify my decisions for what to do with myself.

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That looks familiar... were yall on Congress St?

S. Lamar, in the Casa Garcia's/Alamo Drafthouse parking lot.

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Nice, I hit up the drafthouse all the time... =) sweet theater

I spent almost 2 weeks in Belton Dietz. I couldn't figure out any way of contacting you.

After I get home, you show up here again.

I am trying hard to convince myself, that it wasn't planned. :heee:

We did have a pretty good visit, once I stopped ranting about Snarkpit. :rolleyes:

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Damn Orph, nice snapshots there, I wish there was scenery like that in the Netherlands, but I guess it's either a town, or a grassy patch of flat land here. :sad:

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Hell, is an half-filled auditorium

I passed this during the week, about a mile from where I live, and my childish side couldn't resist taking a picture of it. :smile:

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Understandably so.

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Notice anything odd?

I took this picture outside my front door.

I freaked out once I noticed the oddity. 10? can it be true?

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Sometimes spiders have two little arm-like things called pedipalps at the front for help eating prey, the spider equivalent to the big-ass grabber arms of a scorpion. I bet that the spider in the picture just has really fat pedipalps, so that they look like legs.

Some images in this post have been automatically down-sized, click on them to view the full sized versions:

Well, this is the underside of the same spider. I imagine you're correct, but this little bugger was sure using them "non-legs" for locomotion when I was watchin it.

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couldn't resist

As you guys know I travel a lot. I also take shitloads of pictures. Sometimes some are so good they beg to be shared. Enjoy this one. Direct link = better.

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The nice thing about living and working in London is the huge variety of architecture on show. Edwardian and Victorian buildings sit right up alongside 70's horrid cubist buildings and modern glass and metal buildings.

I'll be adding to the album linked below but these are the buildings and views I see everyday on my way to work. It's nice to just stop my commute and take some of it in from time to time.

Hope this is useful to some of you..

https://picasaweb.google.com/aazell1/WhatISee?authkey=Gv1sRgCNqBwdbVrJWDjQE&feat=directlink

Nice. Did you take those photos with your phone?

Took these photos through my telescope with my phone: The Moon Saturn Jupiter and Io

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I can't get my phone to fucking focus on the images through my telescope.

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Yeah it's hard. Though if the object in your telescope is the only visible light your phone should automatically try to focus onto it. Orph told me a trick which I havent tried yet, you could try to tweak the focus on your scope to compensate for your phone. But still nothing compares to seeing it through your own telescope as you would know with Saturn.

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That doesn't make any sense. Changing the focus on my telescope would make it blurry ... blurry + blurry = Really Blurry.

Also, anytime there's a gentle breeze my shit tripod doesn't give a stable image. Seriously, it's fucking terrible I hate that goddamn tripod.

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1st.. I never claimed it would work, but that it should work.
2nd.. The manual focus knob was designed to compensate for the viewer. In this way a 20/20 and a 20/40 user can use the same scope.
3rd.. Its not really an issue with the telescope so much as the camera. You are trying to use something that is designed to be used at a minimum distance of 14 inches, pressed up to a view finder on the scope.
4th.. Since people DO successfully use digital cameras to photograph stellar objects, there has to be a way for Aaron to do so as well. Preferably with the equipment he ALREADY owns.
Lastly, unless you have tried every conceivable way of doing it and still failed stop dismissing it as undoable. Its prolly more a case of not desiring to succeed more than unable to succeed.

I used to use a film camera 35 years ago. I didn't have to contend with auto focus but savagely lower light than the camera was designed to contend with. Back then it was just shutter speeds.. Sadly though, with film you didn't know how badly you failed on any particular night until you got the film developed.

Aaron, you might have to settle for just the moon. Cameras on phones are really the low end of the camera market and succeeding with one may be unattainable. I dunno, but keep at it and documenting the failures. Who knows.

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Orpheus said:
Aaron, you might have to settle for just the moon. Cameras on phones are really the low end of the camera market and succeeding with one may be unattainable. I dunno, but keep at it and documenting the failures. Who knows.

It was still interesting to see, and always better than nothing.

Also: [quote=Orpheus]As you guys know I travel a lot. I also take shitloads of pictures. Sometimes some are so good they beg to be shared. Enjoy this one.[/quote]
I have just gotten myself a new wallpaper

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Man, I wish I had a telescope. One of these days....

Aazell, it looks like your camera is only partially rendering some of the photos, either that or something happened to them when you were transferring them. Some are half-gray.

I can't wait to move to a large city. I'm stuck out in what feels like the country, in a little small college town in north Louisiana. One more year and I'm gone!

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Dude, the adjustment distance on a telescope is not for the viewer, it's for the focal point of the lens ... you honestly think that it adjusts for the viewer's personal vision? It does not. There is only one point of focus for each lens and it is at different points for each lens (focal point!) THAT'S why you can adjust it

If you need to adjust the light coming into your eye because you have poor vision, this is what glasses are for ... but if you do not start with a clear image .... how is a camera or a person going to make a clear image? (It doesn't)

I HAVE taken images from a telescope before, but you're not entirely cognizant of the situation or the setup.

At no point in time did I say Aaron shouldn't take photos from his telescope, I think you're assuming something I didn't say. You can ask Aaron, we've been talking about this quite a bit, my tripod has problems.

The issue with the camera is more the software than the camera itself.

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Aaron, try this link. It looks promising.

Take short exposures and zoom in on a star and examine with the LCD display on the back of the camera. Then you change the focus slightly and examine the image to see if the star looks smaller. Through a process of trial and error, you will eventually go through the point of best focus.

Sound familiar?

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It was the transfer from my phone. Google Android fail... will take more.

You have to be careful and a bit sneaky when taking photos on the London Underground. They dont like you doing it since the terrorist bombings in 2005.

Its a shame because it has some of the most fastastic architecture that seems to come straight out of HL or another FPS.

Will try and sneakily take some more. Its not like Ill be arrested, i just dont want the hassle of having to explain to a cop why Im doing what Im doing. Will make me late for work. Lol

Riven said:
Man, I wish I had a telescope. One of these days....

I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw those pictures, though I don't know if it's worth the money. I mean, after looking at the planets about 20 times, doesn't it get boring?

Don't get me wrong, I am really fascinated by space stuff, but I was still wondering

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Niborius said:
I was thinking the exact same thing when I saw those pictures, though I don't know if it's worth the money. I mean, after looking at the planets about 20 times, doesn't it get boring?

Nope. It always changes and there's plenty of other things you can look at with a telescope, like satellites and with the right filters the surface of the sun.

If you have a stable camera connected to it you could even do time-lapse photography to get deeper space images.

But, honestly, even if you've seen pictures of planets and such, it's not the same as physically seeing it for yourself. Which is exactly what you're doing with a telescope.

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Nuh there's plenty to see and a camera cant capture the crystal clear detailed image you see live through a telescope. Tomorrow morning when I wake up for work I'm going to try and view Uranus for the first time. It's a nice way to start the day.

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Depending on what you do the night before, you may see more of ur anus than you want.

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Orpheus said:
Depending on what you do the night before, you may see more of ur anus than you want.

Somehow it never gets old

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