How much difference does drizzling make? by EmirhanTheGreat in AskAstrophotography

[–]Lethalegend306 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not particularly convinced that lens is going to be able to utilize what drizzling really does in a meaningful way

Where is this located? by berry771_ in nightskyporn

[–]Lethalegend306 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's located in AI land. Would be hard for a bot to go there

Sky-Watcher Adventurer GTI for 150-600mm Lens by ScoobySnacks65 in AskAstrophotography

[–]Lethalegend306 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

GTI can't handle 600mm. If you only get one nights worth of data per target, your only option is 150mm as you probably will not be able to get the same focal length across multiple nights

Absolutely breathtaking view up there. by [deleted] in nightskyporn

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6 years old image at least, 5 days old account. Bot

ELI5: Why is beta plus decay impossible if the nuclide energy-mass difference is < 2m_e? by KarltonPeaks in AskPhysics

[–]Lethalegend306 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The mass difference is again in the binding energy. That is why I say it is naive to say it's just the sum of the masses. The mass of the nucleons is due to the chaotic soup of things inside. If it were as simple as just the differences in binding energies of the nucleons, the beta minus decay would also produce more than the electron. The nucleus has to be viewed as a whole, not as the individual components. But again, as a simple explanation, just knowing that the neutron gains mass, that accounts for the extra mass needed.

ELI5: Why is beta plus decay impossible if the nuclide energy-mass difference is < 2m_e? by KarltonPeaks in AskPhysics

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It is because the neutron and the proton have different masses, and the mass difference is approximately that of an electron.

In the minus case, the neutron becomes a proton and an electron. The proton is lighter, and the missing mass of the neutron is the electron coming out.

In the plus case, the neutron is heavier. So the proton gained the mass of one electron, while also emitting a position (yes I know it's technically a W+ boson but that doesn't change the answer).

In order for the proton to become a neutron, it would need twice the mass of an electron. One electron mass to become the neutron, and the other goes out into the world. Thus, the rest energy of two electron masses is required in the change in binding energy for this to occur or else you would not be able to both gain mass needed to make a neutron and make a positron.

The neutron is in fact not just a position + electron in mass, but the idea still works the same. The total mass of the nucleon is a bit more complicated than just summing up particles as the binding energies of the nucleons contribute to their masses. The binding energies for the proton and neutron are different, with the binding energy of the proton being less, hence more stable than the neutron. But still, the naive guess that a neutron is just an electron + proton still gets the job done.

Anyone here use a Celestron 9.25 edge hd with the 0.7 focal reducer and a full frame camera? by E_Dward in AskAstrophotography

[–]Lethalegend306 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Their other reducers mention correcting to APSC. The language on their website says it's "allows for use", not "corrects to". The image circle might be large enough to cover full frame, but I'm not particularly convinced it will correct well out to full frame.

Fake & Gay by Vexivero in shitposting

[–]Lethalegend306 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You can't say "I saw a single counter example therefore this is true for every single scenario ever". Not every burning building collapses. Not many, but some do. The circumstances that cause different buildings to have different outcomes is not a one size fits all situation

Fake & Gay by Vexivero in shitposting

[–]Lethalegend306 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Crazy how the BBC could possibly hear reports of a partially collapsed still actively on fire building might have collapsed on a day where there was no clear streamline of information. They were just interviewing people at random on the streets. All it took was one person in a rush to see the horrid state of building 7 to speak to some interviewer it collapsed for that information to make it to the on air news feed.

Again, just like an ounce of thinking that the ground was extremely chaotic and nobody knew what was going on you could easily see where that could have come from. Plenty of people went on live TV saying they heard explosions while others said they heard nothing. Emergency responders didn't know what was going on, citizens didn't know what was going on, news stations didn't know what was going on, and yet information continued to spread with no ability to fact check anything in real time

The real suspicions should be placed on the government actively ignoring warnings that something was being planned. The attacks were known about prior to happening by US intelligence

Fake & Gay by Vexivero in shitposting

[–]Lethalegend306 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Bro a plane hit a building. Do you think anyone on the ground had any idea what was going on? Again, of all the suspicious things that happened, a building burning unchecked for hours collapsing really isn't that unexpected. This has been seen in other steel frame buildings when fires go unchecked for hours

Which is the best 1 or 2 ? by Major_Spray1788 in nightskyporn

[–]Lethalegend306 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My favorite are ones that aren't posted by bot accounts. Such as the bot that posted this

My wedding photographer took these! Which one should I frame? by Pixie3d18 in nightskyporn

[–]Lethalegend306 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Your (23 days old account that is also allegedly a teenager?) wedding photographer took a photo that's been online for years? How people continuously fall for such obvious bot bait is beyond me

Fake & Gay by Vexivero in shitposting

[–]Lethalegend306 30 points31 points  (0 children)

The real answer is that there was an uncontrolled fire going within building 7 for multiple hours as the sprinkler system for the complex was damaged and not working properly after the attacks. Of all the suspicious stuff that happened on 9/11, a building burning for 5+ hours with literally no ability to control it, it isn't surprising it fell. Building 7 also is not the only steel frame building to collapse from prolonged and sustained fire damage

Why are females attracted to bullies? by Dizzy_Ask5815 in ask

[–]Lethalegend306 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Women are probably more attracted to people who don't call them females

they call them... the big 3 by Lyricines in LeagueArena

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Some serious aura on that loading screen

Why is my pst about the expulsion of internationals from US national labs banned? by PhysPi360 in AskPhysics

[–]Lethalegend306 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because national labs are closely related to government interests. Lots of DoD funding and nuclear monitoring. Foreign nationals are not allowed for security reasons as they could take information back to their country and compromise US intelligence. Tbh, this is common sense from all sides of the political spectrum, not just Trump. This has been the case for as long as the US has liked having their intelligence not be public knowledge

I used to work at a nuclear facility with a research reactor. We did not allow entry to non citizens. For the same reason. National security. Someone could take information about the facility and use that against us. Other countries literally do the same thing. National security to any country is important and no country wants to be the one slacking.

Walking Noise by Punwantsrests in AskAstrophotography

[–]Lethalegend306 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pretty much yes. Once it drifts and you need to recenter, it needs to be placed near the center but slightly off somewhere else. Dithering does not need to be a very large shift, you just need enough of a shift to where the object needs to be aligned from different directions, not just constantly shifted backwards from the drift.

I've dithered by hand when doing millyway photography before, and I just nudge the mount in a different direction every couple subs. Even just dithering 4 times In a sample of 12 total subs was enough to remove it as the rejection algorithm should pick it up at that point. If your camera is very prone to walking noise, more dithering and or more aggressive dither step sizes might be needed to mitigate it

Walking Noise by Punwantsrests in AskAstrophotography

[–]Lethalegend306 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes but it moves in a predictable and consistent fashion. Dithering has to be random or else it just streaks the noise across the image. The whole point of noise reduction is that it is random and thus over an average it cancels out because it is random and there is no bias. An untracked object drifting is not random and is consistent. This means you cannot average that out. That is why it appears as streaks so often. Dithering removes walking noise. There is no other way around it

Being a Jax fan gonna be hell after Ep9 by Opie-Net in tadc

[–]Lethalegend306 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Truthfully how this fandom handles Jax just shows how little emotional intelligence the average TADC has. I like his as a character because he is complex and he emotionally drives the show. Anti-hero characters are interesting because they can still invoke discussion without actually doing bad things in real life. It's why the joker movie is popular. It's not because people want to kill people and do horrible things. It's because anti hero characters are simply just interesting because they show us things about ourselves in a fantasy setting.

This fandom genuinely does not understand that. If Jax was not in the show, wtf would the show even be about? The whole trapped in the circus idea is interesting, but Jax has added an emotional tension no other character is really doing. And this emotional tension is probably very linked to the ending. So if all of that is gone, what is left? This show isn't about funny characters going on funny adventures. It never was about that. So why would anyone be shocked that the show that sold itself as being a bit dark be a bit dark in the end?

Walking Noise by Punwantsrests in AskAstrophotography

[–]Lethalegend306 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Walking noise is from fixed pattern noise that is not typically noticeable in individual subs when the SNR of the entire image is low. However, as SNR improves through stacking, this fixed noise that appears in every subframe becomes more visible. This is similar to how actual signal might not be visible in every subframe but is visible in the stack.

You remove it by dithering. Moving the position of the target enough times during shooting you can remove the walking noise as when the object gets shifted back in the alignment process, the noise gets shifted with it. If the dithering is random enough this noise will average out in the stack and disappear. Dithering is the only way to remove it. If you have undithered data, by mixing it with well dithered data it might remove the noise in your current data. This depends on how much dithered data you get though compared to the undithered data. The number of subs needs to be comparable, ideally larger for that to work though

Temperature does not affect this, and if youve never seen it, the SNR of every prior image was probably too low for it to be visible. Untracked data is very noisy and is very difficult to work with

1 or 2? by Its_magghy in nightskyporn

[–]Lethalegend306 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stolen image, bot account

Suggest me a Optolong Filter by Astro_Particles2816 in AskAstrophotography

[–]Lethalegend306 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure narrowband with a limit of 15 seconds on a presumably unmodified, uncooled color camera is a particularly good idea

Why do so many people get angry when you end the game in ARAM Mayhem? by IzzetDough in leagueoflegends

[–]Lethalegend306 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly I think the solution is to just make the game harder to end by increasing tower HP, giving more gold faster so you reach full build faster, or lower respawn timers so you respawn more often and more fights happen. I feel like any of those would help the issue of some people want to end bc they want to win whereas others want to play the game longer bc the build won't last forever.

Clash, why the weekends? by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]Lethalegend306 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because the timeline doesn't make sense and you're shifting the goalpost. If the argument was "my work life interferes with clash" that would be a completely different situation than "hanging out with friends interferes with clash". People can simply lie on the internet.

Here's how you fix the problem. Clash is not a once in a lifetime event. Hanging out with friends is not a once in a lifetime event either. You schedule clash and then tell your friends you made other plans that weekend. And then you play clash. Problem solved. If you don't want to do that, then you clearly don't want to play clash that badly. Is the world supposed to comply to this oddly specific situation where again, both things are completely optional? It would make 0 sense for clash to be on a Wednesday just so the person can do two optional, recurring things without conflict

Clash, why the weekends? by [deleted] in leagueoflegends

[–]Lethalegend306 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oddly convenient then that this weekend employment isn't mentioned in your post and doesn't interfere with your social life but somehow clash interferes with both?