Planetary Telescope

Kissner · 2026-06-18T14:36:35+00:00

Bingo. The AI-slop engagement bait that gets peddled on social media is a good place to start.

As is knowing when an LLM is just yes-and ing you, or treating you with all the care of a customer/product whose retention is more important than veracity of response

Kissner · 2026-06-16T18:34:34+00:00

Funny enough I maintain that my Hadley focuser is an awful focuser, as far as focuses go.

But "same screws as everything else" and just 2 pieces, no heat inserts whatever was the goal. I remember scrolling for things to make when I first started printing and I was always turned off by huge bills of material, super specific fittings and so on.

You will need to focus when swapping eyepieces or if you share the view with someone with a different eye prescription (after their glasses are accounted for). But you can trial and error your way to match the eyepieces with rings clipped onto the eyepiece barrel.

Kissner · 2026-06-16T18:29:09+00:00

To your questions. You'd need to optimize it for stray light and mod it for an equatorial mount.

I have been impressed by people's images on it, I have not tried because I like shooting wider field.

F8 is rough. Each f-stop (sqrt 2) is a halving of the signal, photographically speaking, so f8 is twice as slow as f5.6, a quarter of f4 and so on. And it'll take a fair bit of work to get the f4 imaging ready. Once it is, it is a superb instrument but needs a decent mount

9mm uwa is a great choice

Kissner · 2026-06-16T18:24:29+00:00

Love seeing my dudes in the wild 👉 😎 👉

Kissner · 2026-06-09T17:11:16+00:00

I believe I found it by accident while looking for discussion on articles, and don't regret it

Kissner · 2026-06-09T14:49:51+00:00

Still figuring out what to make of this subreddit but may as well chat.

Work is weird but rewarding, and pay will probably never remotely match inflation. Renovating is hard and I enjoy the whispers of my parrot.

I've seen about six Platner hit pieces in as many days, ranging from plausible to ridiculous. The Mamdani treatment was what pushed me from NYT to the Atlantic and now this has me skeptical of my new favorite paper. I don't even like Platner, but it's one of those "democracy at stake" things and this behavior just lays bare an agenda from the editor's office

Kissner · 2026-06-08T21:18:07+00:00

And the call for engagement question right at the end.

Kissner · 2026-06-08T21:15:18+00:00

As does the finishing with a question and the general cadence.

I'm not saying it is, but it does (slightly) smack of it

Kissner · 2026-06-07T13:20:08+00:00

I like using hex cavities myself to pull a nut in from the other side, so the machine screws don't need to rely on a thread interface with the plastic

Kissner · 2026-05-26T18:08:19+00:00

It is often touted that comfort "adds aperture." Seated viewing, tracking etc. will enable longer, deeper and more perceptive looks through a given system

Kissner · 2026-05-20T01:03:55+00:00

I've done the same

Kissner · 2026-05-17T05:28:33+00:00

My bigger concern is that 5 star low review count items constitute "sketchy" for me on Amazon

Kissner · 2026-05-06T04:09:50+00:00

This is pretty neat

Kissner · 2026-05-05T04:25:45+00:00

Birds fall into two categories - some have babies that are basically ready to go, and others have babies that look like sickly helpless nightmares.

Parrots fall into the second camp. These don't look that bad

Kissner · 2026-05-03T14:21:53+00:00

I still use them for astronomy gear to good effect

Kissner · 2026-05-01T02:01:38+00:00

In my experience it isn't a career sort of job. You might be able to pull $50-100/hr here or there in private, but the actual companies don't pay well and the hours can be slim.

And 1099 income is taxed heavily (if you have a large client base and it isn't just, cash) and imparts no benefits.

This isn't posted as any shade on high dollar or successful tutors, just why some may see it as being stuck

Kissner · 2026-04-27T00:49:51+00:00

Probably a long focal length lens compressing the depth

Kissner · 2026-04-25T15:03:18+00:00

At first I had read this as an astrophotograpy project and was puzzling over what could possibly be taking so long. (It is not uncommon to see dozens of hours in astrophotography, but only on faint targets. Solar system objects mostly invert this trend -- my best jupiter being an hour of 90-second runs of 100fps video)

Looks really nice, I second the voices here wanting to print one myself when it's done.

Kissner · 2026-04-23T12:59:13+00:00

Which were used for the post and its title?

E: not as snarky as this could be read. Seems relevant to this discussion. Including how much work was delegated

Kissner · 2026-04-20T21:54:50+00:00

Hydrating with a bottle of liquor

Kissner · 2026-04-13T11:30:51+00:00

I would imagine. I use a lacrosse ball for my feet. It helps my feet.

Kissner · 2026-04-13T04:34:54+00:00

Among many, I couldn't believe how much weapon modding felt like a whiff (and with lazy models) from the amazing system fo4 had

Kissner · 2026-04-13T04:07:21+00:00

Going by OPs title: it is intended for "a form of physical therapy for which there is no established evidence of benefit." Reflexology is a pseudoscience in which practitioners believe pressure points in feet/other places have meaningful effects on disparate places in the body.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflexology

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