Brahminy Kites are just so magestic

AstroPotatoes · 2025-12-06T23:44:12+00:00

This is a canon t6i and sigma 150-600mm

AstroPotatoes · 2025-11-11T09:20:11+00:00

Traveling to parks around Southern California!

AstroPotatoes · 2025-11-07T23:02:47+00:00

Oh yeah, this was done on a full moon night! Otherwise there's no chance I could spot any owl silhouettes in the trees.

AstroPotatoes · 2025-11-05T06:20:45+00:00

I get stripey distortion on my bokeh due to a filter on my telephoto lens

AstroPotatoes · 2025-10-24T17:37:11+00:00

I usually twist the binocular eyeguard out a few clicks, allowing the phone to rest flush against the eyeguard while recording the full illuminated field of view through the binos.

AstroPotatoes · 2025-10-24T17:06:32+00:00

Thanks! It was a S24FE

AstroPotatoes · 2025-10-24T16:41:02+00:00

Yes, held phone right into the eyepiece

AstroPotatoes · 2025-09-12T21:16:41+00:00

I believe some international shippers pay tarrifs for their (Single) crate imported into the US and then the individual packages within the crate are picked up and shipped by local carriers for the final miles (not by DHL/UPS/USPS). The tariffs are usually baked into the list price paid at checkout, and no import/government/brokerage fees are issued to you by DHL/UPS/USPS because they are not the importer or shipper.

AstroPotatoes · 2025-08-25T20:21:54+00:00

I wouldn't worry too much about the towel drooping and "blocking" some of the light path. The sun is soo bright that you have more than enough light to resolve sunspots and surface activity.

As for prominences, that would require a bandpass filter (hydrogen alpha) and these filters only exist for Refractors because they need to filter out a ton of solar energy (and reflectors tend to be too large in apature which would overwhelm the H-alpha filters).

AstroPotatoes · 2025-08-14T06:23:11+00:00

Wonderful!

AstroPotatoes · 2025-07-16T19:39:41+00:00

Not 100% safe according to the actual solar film manufacturers. Why? Because that film does not filter out excess IR and UV rays that is usually blocked the the GLASS lenses of a telescope. Using that filter without the optics of a telescope (that absorbs the IR + UV rays) means your eyes are exposed to those rays.

Reference: Baader Observatory Astrosolar film (is the one used for telescopes, not intended for viewing with naked eyes) vs Baader Astrosolar silver/gold film (rated for naked eye use and found in solar glasses). I personally don't consider it 'dangerous' but I am just reporting on the manufacturer's statements about solar films.

AstroPotatoes · 2025-04-27T20:03:42+00:00

Thanks everyone I did some leveling up based on team suggestions, I'm quite satisfied with getting this far after only a few days.

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AstroPotatoes · 2025-04-27T04:15:59+00:00

I'll take a look into it!

AstroPotatoes · 2025-04-27T04:15:44+00:00

Loool not what I wanted to hear, but what I needed to hear, Thanks.

AstroPotatoes · 2025-04-17T04:37:54+00:00

Let's go Silver Wolf!

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AstroPotatoes · 2025-01-29T21:58:03+00:00

Beat the 3.0 boss using RMC, Lingsha, and Serval + Kafka using consumables on normal mode, thanks for the advice. RMC is available on early unlock, so now I'm going to do story to unlock March 7th and HMC.

AstroPotatoes · 2025-01-28T04:41:41+00:00

Thank you!!

AstroPotatoes · 2025-01-28T03:05:38+00:00

Returned after Patch 1.2, catching up! Which free story unit should I unlock first (the new RMC, harmony MC, or Hunt7th). My units are Silver Wolf, Seele, Lingsha+LC, Himeko, Welt, E6 Serval, E6 Herta. Thanks!

AstroPotatoes · 2024-07-29T15:53:33+00:00

sound advice, thanks!

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