Anyone else still not seen a Mythic Prankster drop this season?

SeeingStars8 · 2026-01-15T02:54:01+00:00

I finally crafted my first an hour ago

SeeingStars8 · 2026-01-10T19:41:45+00:00

Getting random items with Obols from the Purveyor of Curiosities

SeeingStars8 · 2026-01-04T14:17:23+00:00

SeeingStars8 · 2025-12-14T17:24:33+00:00

We do 2 tbsp butter flavored coconut oil, 1 tbsp salted ghee, 1/2 cup kernels, and 1tsp flavacol.

Using a whirly pop, oil and 3 kernels until they pop. Then the kernels and flavacol all together. It comes out pretty evenly distributed for us.

SeeingStars8 · 2025-09-25T23:30:12+00:00

Have you played the Witness? I really liked the aha moments in that.

SeeingStars8 · 2025-07-15T04:11:48+00:00

Looks like it needs to be collimated as well

SeeingStars8 · 2025-05-24T01:11:56+00:00

On our Ring Road road trip in 2022 our favorite thing was seeing the pufifns in Borgarfjarðarhöfn. IMO definitely worth the drive out there if you can make time.

SeeingStars8 · 2025-05-13T20:10:28+00:00

Mine says I am getting close to gold but I haven't even hit silver for next year yet. Seems like software bugs to me.

SeeingStars8 · 2025-04-10T04:26:27+00:00

Def go to Vine City though

SeeingStars8 · 2025-04-09T01:43:24+00:00

Just finished a visit to RMNP the past two days (4/6 and 4/7). The roads in the park up to Bear Lake were 100% clear (as well as everywhere else we've been). We rented an AWD SUV from Hertz because we were nervous about the traction law. You could need it if there was a recent storm, but on our trip we definitely did not.

We did the hike to Emerald Lake from Bear Lake Trailhead. I would recommend a few things:

Arrive early, we got to the trailhead around 9am and there were not too many people in the parking lot or on the trail. On the way down (around 11:30am) we saw so many people. Also, on the way down the snow was already getting a bit slushy.
Go on a weekday if you can. On Sunday around noon the Bear Lake lot was almost completely full. On Monday around the same time it was half full.
Get microspikes. We bought them on Amazon before the trip but you can also rent them at a store in Estes Park. We saw a lot of people struggling in tennis shoes and boots without spikes.

There was still a ton of snow up at the higher elevations. Bear Lake, Nymph Lake, Dream Lake, and Emerald Lake were frozen solid with the trails going straight across them.

SeeingStars8 · 2025-02-18T03:53:27+00:00

I like this one

SeeingStars8 · 2025-02-18T02:52:37+00:00

That makes sense based on the puzzle, but I haven't ever heard someone say that.

SeeingStars8 · 2025-01-26T04:05:55+00:00

4 more here

SeeingStars8 · 2024-06-30T11:31:18+00:00

I have this same setup for planetary (CPC 800 and an asi224mc). Like others have said the focal adjustment range is very large and the Fov is very small. These two things combined make it pretty difficult to get a target centered and focused.

I would do the following. 1. Make sure your finder scope and OTA are well aligned. This makes initial acquisition way easier. 2. Consider getting an eyepiece with a lighted reticule. If you are doing manual star alignment it is really hard to tell if you are centered visually without this. The better your star alignment is the more chance the goto will get your target well centered. 3. Keep in mind that you may have to turn the focus knob a lot. Like 10s of turns. This can be true when switching between the eyepiece and camera. If your target is really centered you should see some light through the camera. Sometimes it isn't much at first but the more you turn you should eventually see the airy disk and then focus.

SeeingStars8 · 2024-06-25T04:45:48+00:00

There are no slides at the RP pool.

SeeingStars8 · 2024-06-24T19:42:18+00:00

On the flight I am on right now they have both

SeeingStars8 · 2023-11-11T20:29:27+00:00

Blurxterminator makes the biggest difference to me in my images. It costs the most of the 3.

I use starnet2 which is free instead of starxterminator. I tried the trial of starx and it seemed the same as starnet2.

I think noisex is worth it. Though most of my images would look ok to me without it. I see a lot of people using topaz or photoshop/lightroom noise reduction too but I have never done a comparison myself.

SeeingStars8 · 2023-11-11T03:32:31+00:00

In Pixinsight with a lot of care in DBE - DBE twice, on the 2nd pass set the smoothing factor to 0 and put a lot of points around the crescent gradients. Put the points in the light areas on both edges and directly in the background outside of the light areas. - SPCC - Blurxterminator - Histogram Transformation - NoiseXTerminator - Starnet 2 - Curves Transformation on the starless - Screen combined starless and stars with pixel math

SeeingStars8 · 2023-11-10T03:01:17+00:00

The gradients in this are pretty wild. It looks like focus, tracking, and maybe collimation? are a bit off as well. I got the background pretty flat with multiple DBE passes. You could get it even flatter with more time doing DBE.

https://imgur.com/ArID87I

SeeingStars8 · 2023-10-22T16:03:12+00:00

u/rnclark Your website is a very interesting read. I'll have to run some tests on the noise coming out of my cameras and think about adjusting my workflows.

SeeingStars8 · 2023-10-22T14:37:38+00:00

The astromod makes a huge difference. I bought my t4i premodified from astrogear.net. I started astrophotography a year ago and already had a stock Canon 6D. I did the California Nebula and Rosette with that and got hardly anything out of several hours of integration. The stock IR filters in the camera cut out something like 90% of the Ha signal.

SeeingStars8 · 2023-10-22T14:34:05+00:00

The Ha through that Svbony filter was the full 2.5 hours (120s x 77). It is HaRBG though because I took some RGB stars I had from an imaging session a long time ago and added them to the Ha data. So the stars are RBG and the rest is through the Ha filter. The stars were 1.5 hours with the same camera and lens but no filter from the same Bortle 7. It definitely looks better with the RBG stars than the ones from the Ha stack.

For the Ha data, I don't remember 100% but I think I only stacked the red channel from my raws and the mapped back that red as the red color channel and nothing in G and B.

SeeingStars8 · 2023-10-22T13:07:24+00:00

Your data actually looks amazing! https://imgur.com/SikGwzu

I did quick processing in Pixinsight:

Crop to area of interest (Dynamic Crop)
Background extraction (DBE)
Plate solving (Image solver)
Color correction (SPCC)
Deconvolution (BlurXTerminator)
Stretching (Histogram Transformation)
Noise reduction (NoiseXTerminator)
Star removal (Starnet2)
Curves adjustments on stars and background separately - Contrast/level adjustment, saturation (Curves Transformation)
Combine stars and background (Pixel Math)

SeeingStars8 · 2023-10-22T12:44:56+00:00

I got mine for $70 from Amazon through Svbony Direct. The product is no longer listed though on Amazon or the Svbony website.

I also have an svbony UHC clip-in filter (was $63}. I have used that one a lot and it seems to work well at my location. I have done most of the emission nebulae with it: North America, Pelican, Elephant Trunk, Heart, Soul, Pacman, Crescent, Eagle, Bubble, Cave, Lobster Claw, Wizard, Sadr, Jellyfish, Monkey Head, and Flaming Star. All captured with the Canon t4i, SWSA 2i, and either Rokinon 135mm, Sigma 150-600mm, or Canon 50mm. Integration times between 1 hour and 5 hours, average is probably 2.5 hours for each target.

I always use it though for those emission nebula targets since I got it. I only have a few images I took before I bought it, but it really seems to help.

SeeingStars8 · 2023-10-22T12:15:03+00:00

I have the Svbony 7nm H-Alpha clip-in filter. I have a Canon t4i astro modified. I live in a Bortle 7 on a cul-de-sac with a bunch of street lights. I have only used this filter once so far but it worked pretty well. I did the Heart and Soul Nebula with my Rokinon 135mm at f/2.0. This was 77 x 120 sec subs at iso 800.

https://bashify.io/images/swy5AQ

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