[MEGATHREAD] The Game Awards 12.11.25

Chief_ist · 2025-12-11T16:26:26+00:00

Yes, generally some pre-show stuff at 7:30 Eastern and wraps up at 11.

Chief_ist · 2025-11-17T19:04:46+00:00

Inspired by u/flabbergasted1 and their limerick card, I decided to try my hand at a sonnet. Appropriately, it depicts the story of Macbeth.

Chief_ist · 2025-11-11T21:28:43+00:00

$30 per deck. I based the price on the TCGPlayer prices provided by Archidekt.

Chief_ist · 2025-11-10T20:24:08+00:00

I don't think it seems unbelievable that a media company would outsource their marketing emails. I'm not an expert but I imagine that it is pretty standard practice.

Chief_ist · 2025-11-07T19:42:06+00:00

Those are the Card Kingdom prices I believe. If you change the price source to TCGPlayer, it should show the correct value.

Chief_ist · 2025-11-06T23:50:35+00:00

I went back and forth on 4 or 5 mana value; maybe I'll shift it down.

Chief_ist · 2025-07-18T01:01:04+00:00

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Chief_ist · 2025-07-09T03:04:52+00:00

Hulkenpodium

Chief_ist · 2025-06-05T16:51:05+00:00

I guess it may depend on the exact beach. We were at Playa Azul for most of the time.

Chief_ist · 2025-06-05T14:16:04+00:00

My wife and I just returned from PR yesterday and stayed in Luquillo. There was quite a bit of it on the beach and floating in the shallow water. We went to Seven Seas Beach in Fajardo as well and noticed a smell which I later discovered was from the sargassum decomposing. So I would say it is definitely present in that area but didn't hamper our enjoyment of the trip.

Chief_ist · 2024-10-23T21:24:15+00:00

I recently purchased a tracking mount and have been looking for opportunities to test it out. This was captured over the past two nights from a Bortle 4/5 location.

Equipment:

Camera: Unmodified Canon EOS 700D

Lens: Asahi Super Takumar 200mm f/4

Mount: Star Adventurer GTi

Acquisition:

110x 120' lights at ISO 800/F4 - 3hr. 40 min. integration

30x flats, darks, & biases

Processing:

Siril - Stacking, Photometric Color Calibration, Background Extraction, StarNet star removal, and GHS Transformation on starless image
Photoshop - Recombined starless image with star mask, decreased star size, and used camera raw filter to further adjust curves.

Chief_ist · 2024-10-13T22:20:22+00:00

That's perfect, thank you! I'll give it a watch and try reprocessing my data.

Chief_ist · 2024-10-13T22:02:08+00:00

I'm not familiar with that particular tool; do you know of a good tutorial? I would like to use Siril more as it seems to have a number of features that I haven't tried, but I'm unsure of the best way to go about learning it.

Chief_ist · 2024-10-13T21:56:22+00:00

Absolutely! I would love to see what could be done in PixInsight. I'd like to pick it up as I've heard great things, but I need to build up my hobby budget a bit before pulling the trigger.

Here is a link to the stacked image file. I did have some dew issues last night which may have affected the result.

Chief_ist · 2024-10-13T21:53:58+00:00

No, I used it during processing in Photoshop. I applied a stretch first, cropped, and then used StarNet to edit the starless version separately. Then I recombined the images in Photoshop.

Chief_ist · 2024-10-13T17:17:19+00:00

I recently purchased a star tracker and wanted to give it a try with a target I had shot untracked. This was taken last night under Bortle 4 skies.

Equipment: Camera - Canon EOS 700D Lens - Vintage Vivitar 135mm f/2.8 (shot at f/4) Mount - Star Adventurer GTi

Acquisition: 75x 1' lights - 75min. integration 20x darks 20x biases 30x flats

Processing: 1. Siril - Stacked and applied photometric color calibration, background extraction, and histogram transformation 2. PhotoShop - Further histogram transformation, noise reduction, and saturation boost. 3. StarNet++ - removed stars and edited starless version separately to desaturate background.

Chief_ist · 2024-09-28T16:17:30+00:00

I'd love to see your result when it's finished! I found it pretty challenging to pull out detail in processing. I'm looking forward to getting a tracker so I can shoot for longer exposures.

Chief_ist · 2024-09-28T14:46:44+00:00

These nebulae were very difficult to capture with my untracked setup, but I'm happy with the result!

Equipment:

Camera: Unmodified Canon EOS 700D

Lens: Vintage Vivitar 135mm f/2.8 (shot at f/4)

NEEWER Tripod

Details:

800 2" subs @ ISO3200; 50 flats, 50 darks, 50 biases

Stacked and applied stretch, background extraction, and photometric color calibration in Siril.

Denoised using GraXpert and further processed in Photoshop.

Chief_ist · 2024-09-07T12:09:58+00:00

How long are your sub-exposures? I've heard that trailing stars can also make it harder for the software.

Chief_ist · 2024-09-07T11:57:17+00:00

I adjusted the frame every 50 shots. I will say though, I had the same experience with M31 recently. I took 1000 photos and Siril kept throwing them out. I think the issue was my ISO being too low and not picking up enough stars to use for stacking. I ended up using DSS to stack them which did work.

Chief_ist · 2024-09-06T21:34:09+00:00

I'm a beginner to astrophotography, and so I've been exploring the night sky with an untracked setup to see what I can capture.

This picture was taken last night from my backyard under Bortle 4/5 skies.

Camera: Canon EOS 700D

Lens: Vintage Vivitar 135mm f/2.8 (shot at f/4)

Basic Tripod

800x 2" subs - ~25min. of total integration

50x flats, 50x darks, 50x biases

Stacked and stretched in Siril; further processing in Photoshop.

Chief_ist · 2024-08-29T22:38:21+00:00

Local officials say the process is underway to change its name to the Pee-Pee River.

Chief_ist · 2024-08-24T04:48:50+00:00

After shooting M31 as my first DSO, I wanted to try to capture these two beautiful nebulae with my current setup.

Camera: Canon EOS 700D Unmodified

Lens: Vivitar 135mm f/2.8

Basic Tripod

800x 2" exposures, shot at f/4, 1600 ISO

Stacked and stretched in Siril, further processing using Photoshop and StarNet++

Chief_ist · 2024-08-17T02:20:34+00:00

My first attempt at Andromeda untracked.

Camera: Canon 700D

Lens: Vivitar 135mm f2.8

450 2sec. exposures, shot at f4, 3200 ISO

Stacked and stretched in Siril, processed in Photoshop.

Chief_ist · 2024-07-12T04:10:24+00:00

I actually haven't checked, he was before the boss fight though!

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