I need to do some painting. Not the creative kind, but the Hut is showing wear, and the Scope Shed is still wearing its original brown. This occurred to me at maybe 4:30 am after getting up to pee, and before falling back to sleep. So it made sense to get the painting stuff laid … Read more
On a lovely but chilly May morning I arrived at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and saw this marvelous mountain of sand that begged to be climbed. I was glad it was chilly because the Dune Climb is steep, and, well, sand is a bitch to walk thru. Once at the top, there is a … Read more
We had a really clear night June 3rd, following a cold front, so I set up an imaging run on M64, the descriptively named “Black Eye” galaxy. I got a good hour of luminance data, but only about 15 minutes each of RGB. I haven’t made anything acceptable with the color data yet, but the … Read more
I find that I take a lot of pictures of seasonal stuff, and I wondered how to find images taken at the same time of year but in different years. As it turns out, there’s no obvious way to do that. Computers keep time by counting the number of ticks or seconds since an arbitrary … Read more