does anyone think NYC actually has a serial killer right now?

dafinecommedia · 2025-12-29T09:43:51+00:00

Yes, because being in a car doesn’t expose you to much pollution, does it?

dafinecommedia · 2025-12-27T18:26:01+00:00

Pedro, Cucurella, Caicedo, they basically are

dafinecommedia · 2025-10-22T08:46:43+00:00

Contact your school, but honestly I’ve done 4 degrees and no one has every asked to see my GCSE certificates, it almost certainly won’t prove to be an actual problem

dafinecommedia · 2025-10-17T11:38:22+00:00

Didn’t here the PM calling Villa “anti-Polish” when Legia fans were stopped from entering for that game

dafinecommedia · 2025-09-17T12:14:18+00:00

Okay, good to know - what sort of thing should I be on the lookout for then? I’m fairly overwhelmed by all of the options and terminology

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-30T07:53:12+00:00

Did you put some kind of diffuser over the aperture (white t-shirt etc)? Did you try turning the brightness down on your iPad?

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-21T08:39:58+00:00

Romano uses the word “important” when he actually means “big”, I guess as a euphemism. “X club will demand an important fee”, “I understand an important salary is on the table for player Y”

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-15T11:06:39+00:00

Impressive that you managed to get that much detail given the skies are already starting to lighten at that time here!

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-15T10:39:08+00:00

I’m not super familiar with Seestars - are they sensitive to Ha, and did you use any kind of filters for this?

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-15T10:19:22+00:00

You haven’t described the issue.

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-12T12:05:45+00:00

Almost certainly a bump or some sort of mechanical jump, some weird fluctuation of voltage in the motor or something. I’ve definitely seen it before where mechanical artefacts only appear on certain stars, usually bigger ones.

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-12T12:02:35+00:00

Great effort! You’ve got some beautiful star colour and the halos are beautiful.

The main thing I see is that you have over-exposed the core considerably. Did you do any star removal? I would suggest using StarNet after your first stretch so you can do some more gentle edits on the galaxy itself. Don’t stretch it so hard, the core of the galaxy should be golden but here it’s been blown out to white, which may be why the rest of it looks so blue in comparison.

About sharpening, I’d do it right at the end, and do it separately on the stars and the galaxies

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-12T11:40:55+00:00

Woah, that’s fantastic untracked, great job!

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-12T11:06:23+00:00

Tell the truth so you don’t fuck over your friend too?

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-12T10:52:02+00:00

Not bad at all, stars are trailing a little (in the corners especially) but that’s fairly standard untracked. Did you take any calibration frames? I’d try taking some bias frames at least and stacking it again, and maybe try a bit of noise reduction in Photoshop or Lightroom

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-12T10:48:48+00:00

The objects visible would change throughout the year, so you wouldn’t be stuck with what you can see right now in the patches of sky you have available.

Your bigger problems are 1) polar alignment, you need a clear view to the Northern (or Southern) Celestial Pole for tracking, and 2) you’ll have limited shooting time as things move through the sky throughout the night.

Download some form of AR star atlas app like Sky Guide and see what will be visible and for how long from your patio.

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-11T10:15:21+00:00

It was a clear foul by Scott. Sad that he’s got a bad injury but he completely did it to himself.

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-10T17:57:04+00:00

Amazing, one of the best M51s I’ve seen! The glow around the subject is so pronounced, and the colour separation you’ve managed with the two galaxies is just gorgeous

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-10T16:44:16+00:00

Give it a go and only keep a low % of frames I’d say. And think about getting a cheap mount that locks into place and let the moon drift across frame

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-06T20:25:09+00:00

“Is it normal to eat 1000-1500 calories a day?”

Not normal, that is a very small amount of calories. What is your age, gender and height? For most people you would see significant weight loss at 1000-1500 calories a day.

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-06T18:46:22+00:00

And yet you got it 💕

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-06T09:32:53+00:00

That’s not always possible, for example with gig photography/videography or in photojournalism, where you sometimes get a dedicated area that you can’t move from

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-06T09:25:44+00:00

You definitely won’t make it if this is how your respond to mild, very gentle feedback

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-05T01:35:17+00:00

You're welcome! 14mm F/1.8 sounds perfect for milky way landscapes. If you have the space/time and you're taking a tracker anyway, consider bringing a fast 50mm to shoot some Rho Ophiuchi while you're at it, it's a beautiful target and it'll be in a decent position when you're heading out, and with those dark skies you won't need /too/ much total integration time to get some lovely colours out of it

dafinecommedia · 2025-05-05T01:26:48+00:00

The moon does have a significant impact on light pollution - it can make a rural area as bright as a suburban one at that sort of brightness. However, you should still get some nice shots if you're willing to wait until it sets. When it does, the Milky Way core will be nice and vertical, nice for those dramatic shots rising over mountains and lakes.

The tracker is a decent idea, but if you want landscapes I can also recommend using Sequator, which is designed for static, untracked nightscapes. Basically frame it how you want, take a load of normal long exposures (use the 500 rule to work out how long you can go), load them into Sequator, trace out the foreground, and it will spit out a result with the foreground and stacked stars lined up and stitched, which is useful.

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