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dt / Re: my astro photos
« on: May 21, 2016, 07:53 PM »
Are you going to take pics from Mars today?  ;D I hope so.
Took one a couple of days ago, here it is:


The problem with Mars is that it shines in the southern part of the sky this year, and I'm placed quite far in the northern hemisphere (my geographic latitude is 51 degrees). Which means it doesn't rise too high in the sky in Poland, and since the atmosphere near the horizon is always turbulent, the image is considerably blurry. Need to wait until 2020 for favorable observational conditions of Mars from my location ;)

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dt / Re: my astro photos
« on: May 16, 2016, 07:05 PM »
7 days ago, the planet Mercury passed in front of the Sun one week ago for the first time since 2006. Here's my photo of the event 8)


Equipment pic:

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=5150 Clan Forum= / Re: New members/Restarting 5150
« on: May 12, 2016, 05:39 AM »
no other clans want me
Can't speak on behalf of other clans, but dt didn't even run a poll for you because nobody saw you in AG for a long time.
So maybe you should try doing things in another order. Start playing first, join/create a clan later :)

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Gaming Central / Re: Advance Wars?
« on: May 10, 2016, 05:09 PM »
Advance Wars, that's where my worms team name comes from :P

I was pretty good in the gameboy version, got an S-rank in the hard campaign mode (without the walkthrough). That was like 12 years ago though.
Never played too much of the online multiplayer version. A couple of games with Peja in 2011, some more games with non-worms friends earlier.
I guess I'd be up for a game if you don't mind me being slow (1 turn per day or so) ;)

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dt / Re: my astro photos
« on: May 02, 2016, 05:25 PM »
Holy shit, these are beautiful! How much afterwork, tooling does it take from raw picture to this to happen?
Thanks :-)
It depends on the photograph, but most of the time, processing takes a couple of hours on a high end PC and involves a substantial amount of science and data analysis.

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dt / Re: my astro photos
« on: May 01, 2016, 03:34 PM »
This one's from yesterday :)
International Space Station passing in front of the Sun, recorded at 570 FPS, played back at 60 FPS (9.5 times slower)



Real time version: https://gfycat.com/ScaryBrightFruitbat

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Leagues Games Comments / Re: Game #208675, reported by vesuvio
« on: April 30, 2016, 12:11 PM »

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dt / Re: my astro photos
« on: April 28, 2016, 07:18 AM »
Thanks guys! More photos 8)

The Moon and the International Space Station. ISS is the largest man-made object ever put in space, with a size of 100x100 meters. It orbits the Earth at a speed of 27600 km/h. At the time this video was taken, it was about 650 kilometers away from me. Recorded at 120 fps, played back at 0.25x speed.


Crescent Moon. A color-enhanced version, similar to the first photo from the previous post.


Daytime Moon. Apart from the Sun, the Moon is the only astronomical object bright enough to be easily seen during the day.


The Sun. Our star is so bright that it literally burns anything you focus its light on within seconds. In order to take a photo of the Sun, it's required to use a special filter which reduces the light intensity by a factor of a few thousand.


NGC 4565. Like the one from the previous post, this is a spiral galaxy. The difference is that we can observe it from the side. As you can see, spiral galaxies are as flat as pancakes.


Star trails. Yet another photo taken during my stay at Teide Observatory last year.

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dt / my astro photos
« on: April 26, 2016, 09:23 AM »
Been doing a lot of astrophotography in the past year or so. I'm mostly into lunar stuff, since that's what my telescope is optimized for, but sometimes I take photos of other objects for a change. My pics are quite popular on the web, often getting tens to hundreds of thousands of views. dt members liked them a lot when I showed some in private forums a while ago, so check 'em out ;)
Click on any photo for larger version.

Full Moon. Taken with a set of special filters which make it possible to see the differences in chemical composition of the lunar soil. Brown areas are rich in iron, blue areas are rich in titanium.


Copernicus and surroundings. One of the most spectacular craters on the Moon, with a diameter of nearly 100 kilometers. This photo is pushing the limits of my telescope, you can see features as small as 500 meters across on the lunar surface.


Crescent Moon and Venus. At the time this photo was taken, the planet Venus was approximately 150 times further away from Earth than our satellite.


Total lunar eclipse. This event happened on the night between 27th and 28th September last year and was visible in most of Europe and the Americas. The Moon changes color due to the scattered light in our atmosphere.


Messier 51. A relatively nearby galaxy (28 million light years away) with very prominent spiral arms.


Star trails. This photo took six hours to create. Due to Earth's rotation, stars appear to move in circles. When the camera is pointed at a fixed point for a long time, it's possible to capture the motion of the objects in the sky. Taken in the Teide Observatory on Tenerife, Canary Islands.

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FoS / Re: HB ANO
« on: April 21, 2016, 11:26 AM »
buon compleANO

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Leagues Complaints / Re: Avoiding
« on: April 19, 2016, 10:06 PM »
Sbaffo, lalo: seeing that you are in the same situation as Senator, I don't see why not.
EDIT: Make sure you have a definite proof of Asbest avoiding. If you decide to report a free win against him, always provide detailed chat logs.

Still, Asbest is clearly abusing the system by giving away free wins instead of actually playing. He's not even trying anymore >:(

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Leagues Complaints / Re: Avoiding
« on: April 19, 2016, 03:51 PM »
You can report a free win of your pick, but Asbest is still allowed to change his mind and play the game if he wants. In case you lose, winners will be switched.

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Leagues General / Re: Leagues overall reset poll
« on: April 18, 2016, 09:09 AM »
So when leagues will be reseted?

Look at the first post 8)

If there's a success, the reset will start at the beginning of season #51.

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Tech Support / Re: Gravity / Speed MESSED UP
« on: April 17, 2016, 12:04 PM »
For now it's based on 'feel' only. So far my test for max-speed only reproduces that 'feel' of mine.
But I think it is possible to happen only in my computer. That's why I asked people to test it too.

Don't worry. I'll try to bring 'numbers' and 'evidences' before answering again.
Start a game, drop a worm from a fixed height, check in replay how many frames it takes to hit the ground.
Standard gravity in WA is 600 pixels per second squared.

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Do you seriously intend to reset the stats of big bears like barman
I voted for the reset :-*

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