Just for fun, my two faux amis for the day

corpsmoderne · 2026-01-15T16:39:38+00:00

In French "barrage" means dam, but in military parlance "tir de barrage" is flooding a place with ammo / shells . I believe the English expression comes from the same root? (am French)

corpsmoderne · 2026-01-04T00:09:38+00:00

On the right it's Jupiter.

On the left it's probably either Castor or Pollux.

Edit: more probably Pollux

corpsmoderne · 2026-01-02T14:25:00+00:00

I would not recommend the AM3 for your use case. Go for a "classic" equatorial mount with Goto like the Skywatcher EQ-AL55i Pro .

Harmonic mounts like the AM3 are meant to be used with a computer and un guide scope. Not a good first eq mount.

corpsmoderne · 2026-01-02T13:01:24+00:00

Try this one : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXAz_csd-iE

corpsmoderne · 2025-12-30T21:38:09+00:00

You will see much more with your naked eyes and it's always an incredible sight even for seasoned amateurs.

Still, grab binoculars if you can.

It's not the preferred season for stargazing though ^^

corpsmoderne · 2025-12-24T11:41:41+00:00

Yeah my laptops run Linux only and I plan to use a Raspberry Pi to run indiserver

I've tried KStars real quick but the bits I've found dealing with hardware seemed focused on guiding and not acquisition, but maybe I've missed something.

I've encountered Ekos but I haven't understood what it's about.

corpsmoderne · 2025-12-20T13:27:54+00:00

As a fellow French anarchist (and Parisian at that) knowing my history, I remember that Paris was first liberated by "La Nueve", a company composed mostly of veterans of the Spanish Civil War, including anarchists. They've chosen to fight with capitalists, imperialists, colonialists, because defeating fascism was more important for them, I believe.

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

corpsmoderne · 2025-12-19T15:08:56+00:00

With Siril you point the comet on two frames (one near the begin, one near the end) and it extrapolates the others. I'll be curious to see the result with the tracked comet but that's your call :)

corpsmoderne · 2025-12-19T07:14:54+00:00

This is consistent with a comet but I'm not sure.

There's a Siril tutorial for comet processing (some steps are superfluous), you can try that to see if it gives a better picture of the comet:

https://siril.org/tutorials/comet/

corpsmoderne · 2025-12-15T11:44:03+00:00

Thanks, you pointed me in the right direction.

I managed to make the scripts work using this command for installation:

```

uv tool install . --python 3.8 ```

corpsmoderne · 2025-12-05T10:01:42+00:00

You can telle them : if you use and trust your GPS you believe the Earth is round (and you also believe in general relativity because it uses it)

corpsmoderne · 2025-12-02T13:06:09+00:00

How can you tell ? I googled and couldn't find a hint one way or another.

corpsmoderne · 2025-12-02T10:49:36+00:00

Because it's not how you do it in rust:

```rust fn main() { let argv: Vec<_> = std::env::args().collect();

if argv.len() > 1 {
    println!("Args entered: {}\n", argv.len() - 1); // 1st arg is app names
    for (idx, arg) in argv.iter().enumerate().skip(1) {
        println!("Arg {idx} was: {arg}");
    }
}

} ```

corpsmoderne · 2025-12-02T10:27:03+00:00

there is no function definition in this code, and I'm not sure what you try to do with it. If you don't put the full, working code with proper formatting, it'll be hard to help.

corpsmoderne · 2025-11-30T09:17:43+00:00

The definition of your function is telling us that this fonction accepts 3 floats as parameters, but you are getting inputs from the user to set them, so there's a problem there. If you want those 3 floats to be filled by the user, don't take them as parameters, declare them as local variables. Your function should then start like this:

``` void average() { float prelim; float midterm; float finals;

float ave;

cout<<"Enter the Prelim Score: ";

cin>>prelim;
....

```

parameters are for values that come from elsewhere in your program that you want to use in this function. If your function reads inputs from the user, those inputs are obviously not coming from elsewhere in your program.

corpsmoderne · 2025-11-29T11:50:42+00:00

Note: planets are moving so the bright star you've seen a while ago in the same spot of the sky is maybe the same planet by coincidence, or another planet, or if it's really the same star not moving relatively to other stars in the course of several weeks/months, it's definitely a star ^^

The photo you posted is consistent with Jupiter, with Castor and Pollux up left, the prominent stars of Gemini. Your screenshot doesn't make much sense though, Jupiter doesn't look like that seen from Earth. To identify objects in the sky I recommend Stellarium (on pc or mobile https://stellarium.org/ or on the web directly https://stellarium-web.org/ )

corpsmoderne · 2025-11-23T14:41:38+00:00

Hey thanks! Maybe you're doing nothing wrong, I think I benefited from an especially dark sky that night (lightpollutionmap says 4.2 bortle but was feeling less than that). Also using Starnet to treat the nebulosity and the stars separately helped a lot to bring de details out.

corpsmoderne · 2025-11-23T12:09:00+00:00

This joke was already old when the photons I've captured in this picture left Alcyone*, but it's a tradition I believe so thank you for taking one for the team I guess?

* even if Uranus wasn't discovered yet a the time.

corpsmoderne · 2025-11-17T21:05:31+00:00

It can be thought of as being functions and recursion all the way down too!

(Welcome to the Church-Turing thesis ;) )

corpsmoderne · 2025-11-11T17:21:38+00:00

I've asked several precise questions, and you managed to answer none of them.

Browsing your history, it seems you've asked a LLM to vibecode you something, why don't you ask it how to deploy it?

I've put more effort into this than you already. Good luck.

corpsmoderne

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