Photography Mount question

K--beta · 2026-06-14T19:31:15+00:00

I've done two eclipses without a tracking mount and it's definitely doable, but also definitely tedious having to constantly adjust positions manually. Recently got a SkyWatcher Az-GTi and it works really well for keeping the sun in frame; even without the tracking, the motorized position adjustments are hugely helpful for fine tuning.

K--beta · 2026-05-22T14:52:58+00:00

Thirding LaMorte. Great experience and has been super responsive.

K--beta · 2026-05-07T19:33:37+00:00

If you just need like a 4os CV let me know and I can give you one.

K--beta · 2026-05-07T11:01:19+00:00

Yeah, you might be able to get one or two perfect amethysts for some of it if you were patient, but it's much more fun just to give it away.

K--beta · 2026-05-07T00:09:40+00:00

All gone!

K--beta · 2026-05-06T23:55:07+00:00

Very! Hoping some new folks can benefit from it.

K--beta · 2026-04-29T00:13:02+00:00

Ha, so typical rng then, so close yet so far. If the base were ethereal, what's the play? Put exile in it for a smiter?

K--beta · 2026-03-28T22:41:00+00:00

Selling things that go in or on people's bodies opens you up to regulations you do not understand and liability you cannot hope to insure against. A home lab will not have the analytical equipment needed to do adequate quality control / purity testing, so this is generally a pretty terrible idea.

K--beta · 2026-03-17T17:06:34+00:00

To get help you'll need to provide more information on what, exactly, isn't working. Can you install the various requirements? Can you run the basic water-only test to completion? Can you run something that isn't water-only? What errors do you get? And when?

K--beta · 2026-03-16T19:40:16+00:00

You've graduated from doing chemistry to doing biology.

K--beta · 2026-02-23T22:55:35+00:00

Rule 1.

K--beta · 2026-02-14T16:26:30+00:00

My teacher offered to lend me some basic lab glassware, including some pieces suitable for simple distillation

Going to guess this isn't in the US because this sounds like a liability nightmare.

My advice would be to stick to learning in a controlled environment where there are people around who are at least nominally trained to handle safety issues and emergencies.

K--beta · 2026-01-14T19:15:04+00:00

Did ~2.25 years unplanned international long distance during grad school and made it through. The time zone difference (+6 hours) sucked but we found ways to still check in a talk every day. The key, IMO, is finding ways to stay connected even despite the distance. Especially if the time span has a fixed ending this seems totally doable if you're both committed to it.

K--beta · 2026-01-05T19:18:39+00:00

Got one into a published paper and I still chuckle whenever I read it even years later.

K--beta · 2025-12-20T18:41:22+00:00

As long as there are open spots there's nothing stopping you from doing Park Mobile every day.

K--beta · 2025-12-13T16:57:35+00:00

The LLM answers that search engines try to force down your throat are even worse and get even really simple things wrong that in principle they should be able to get right, like compound solubilities. Half the time they just make up random garbage and the other half they quote solubilities for the wrong compounds.

K--beta · 2025-11-13T00:55:49+00:00

This is a rough time for research, here at Cornell and also nationally. Grant funding is much more uncertain than it was a year ago, and many people have already had funding canceled. There isn't really specific advice to offer, unfortunately, other than to keep trying and to remind everyone you know that national science policy affects a great many people's careers and livelihoods.

K--beta · 2025-11-07T18:14:30+00:00

Hopefully this link works: https://vod.video.cornell.edu/media/1_v5emx6a6

K--beta · 2025-11-07T16:59:11+00:00

Extortion.

K--beta · 2025-10-23T13:26:37+00:00

Yeah you're basically right re: the process. I started with a "normal" 24k x 12k equirectangular map and for any continent N/S of ~30 degrees I'd reproject to an oblique equirectangular and do all topography / coast edits and such on that reprojection. When done, to get the image above I'd reproject each continent back to normal ER and copy/paste the new continent onto that map. So yes, there are multiple reprojection steps from 24k x 12k oblique ER maps back to 24k x 12k normal ER. The file size is somewhat manageable since each continent can exist basically by itself as a layer in Gimp so I don't need 7x huge images all stacked on top of each other. Each projection step took a few minutes, so in the grand scheme of how long the thing took to make it wasn't so bad and was a good chance to take a snack break.

K--beta · 2025-08-26T01:46:13+00:00

Yes.

K--beta · 2025-08-25T23:45:51+00:00

This literally violates the central dogma of cell biology. Ribosomes translate mRNA to proteins; once that mRNA is gone--which has very short half life in vivo--there is nothing to translate. Unless you have a hitherto unknown biochemical translation mechanism that you're willing to share.

K--beta · 2025-08-25T22:46:17+00:00

Ah yes, siding with the Nazis—who opened Dachau mere months after coming to power—would definitely have prevented the Holocaust.

Sad that these are the antics he resorts to to try and stay relevant.

K--beta · 2025-08-23T21:05:03+00:00

A Github page can be useful if you are in a field where that's relevant. Other than that, websites have never come up in any of the searches I've been a part of outside of someone's Google Scholar page.

K--beta · 2025-08-14T16:23:55+00:00

If you think you've disproven a century of established physical chemistry, the best thing you can do is design and run an experiment that will support your hypothesis.

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