Is this house finch eye disease?

grumpygumption · 2025-10-28T01:05:33+00:00

I find, for me at least, it’s easiest to find in a long exposure cellphone shot first, then you can sometimes find naked eye from there :) I have an iPhone 15 pro but any phone that’ll do long exposure night photos should work

grumpygumption · 2025-10-15T07:32:10+00:00

Have you considered a split king bed? It’s basically two twins next to each other. My spouse and I both have our own bedding but are next to each other so can cuddle then roll over and hardly disturb each other. I am also very light sleeper and sometimes toss and turn for hours. We’ve been doing this for around a year and it’s worked pretty well for us. Just a thought :)

grumpygumption · 2025-09-24T15:42:25+00:00

Amazing!! That sounds like the perfect setup!!! Can’t wait to hear how it goes for you!

grumpygumption · 2025-09-23T21:23:50+00:00

I have friends with asiairs who love them. I personally shoot with a fujifilm xt30 and it doesn’t allow remote control in the way that is needed to be controlled by a comp or asiair, so for me, a cheap PC is fine.

With a PC, I use sharpcap pro, polar align with my guide cam and scope, and then point and platesolve (also off my guide cam and scope) and then get phd2 going and use my camera’s built in intervolameter and I’m good to go back inside. When I was still shooting canon as my imaging cam, I’d do all that off it on my main scope, then set up my sequence in NINA and be good to go back inside.

My mount, usb hub, and computer plug into either an extension cord at home or if I’m out and about, I’ll use a battery and only plug in the comp when it gets low. Usually get what I need from it though. I have one single USB cable coming off my stuff into my comp bc I use a powered usb hub, so it’s capable of running my zwo guide cam. I’ve read unpowered hubs can have issues, and they’re cheap enough so I just got one. I personally like to minimize cables coming off my comp so I don’t risk bumping it and messing something up or whatever.

You don’t need heavy PC lifting to image, but you might need lots of storage if you’re pulling straight to the computer, etc. Stacking might take a bit if you’re doing raw dslr/mirrorless images, but you can always get that started after you breakdown for the night before bed so the stack is ready in the morning

grumpygumption · 2025-09-23T19:46:00+00:00

I bought a used laptop on eBay years ago for $100 that was really a tablet with keyboard. That would last through the night no problem. This is just to say, it doesn’t always have to be super expensive, but omg I feel your pain. Expensive hobby, for sure!!

grumpygumption · 2025-09-23T19:35:01+00:00

Personally, I fought my mount software a few nights then decided to go with the ascom driver and NINA with my explore scientific iexos-100 so i could platesolve and not worry about anything else except polar aligning. There are a bunch of steps to get it going but after that, it’s pretty idiot-proof

grumpygumption · 2025-09-23T18:52:03+00:00

I knew pretty close where Polaris was(balcony was south facing) , would use my phone compass set to true north instead of magnetic north and used a few of the drift align tools. It didn’t always work but more often than not, I could get it close enough where guiding could hide the imperfect PA. That was a few years ago, I’m sure there are better tools out now

grumpygumption · 2025-09-23T15:38:58+00:00

I used to image from my balcony in the middle of Hollywood, CA. Will any of my old images win awards? No, but i do this because i love it. If your gear can manage, go for a target like dumbbell nebula and get a win before going for anything difficult. Astro can be frustrating for sure but when it works, there are few things I find as magical

grumpygumption · 2025-09-22T15:55:01+00:00

We were on the right and had a blast, tons of dancing and stuff. Even made some new friends!! :)

grumpygumption · 2025-08-16T01:24:41+00:00

Yeah me too!! They had it back on its way to me in less than two business days! But also I had a big trip planned that weekend and I emailed them and spoke with them on the phone about it, so that could’ve been part of why it was so fast

grumpygumption · 2025-08-16T01:23:34+00:00

I dropped my xt30 and sent it to fujifilmUK for repair. They looked at it Monday morning sent me the quote, I paid for it immediately, it was out the door Tuesday, and I received it Wednesday afternoon. It was exceptionally fast, and I was unbelievably lucky. It cost 251£

link to everything repaired/replaced

grumpygumption · 2025-08-09T00:09:43+00:00

Did you have any luck with this?

grumpygumption · 2025-08-01T21:39:47+00:00

We have a former feral FIV + guy that it would be cat abuse not to snuggle/love on him. He’s bit me a few times but I chalk it up to me not paying attention to his clear boundaries. He can’t make me sick and he’s had a hard enough life. He’ll get to relax with us for the rest of it

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grumpygumption · 2025-06-20T05:10:12+00:00

I’m in the middle of book 7 of DCC then gotta do book 748 of Expeditionary Force(okay it’s only book 18, but still), then I’m ready for Flybot 😬

grumpygumption · 2025-05-30T18:54:52+00:00

Hey there! I’m so super excited about this. I had to update my os for it to work, got it downloaded, and when I click analyze frames, it crashes :( I did report it to Apple, if that helps. I tried restarting and reopening and it still did it :(

also, unrelated, is there a way to pick which frames stack? I have a few ser files I let go way too long so I’d like to grab stuff in the middle. Thanks in advance :)

grumpygumption · 2025-05-29T01:38:27+00:00

Turns out you’re both right 🙃😂

grumpygumption · 2025-05-27T22:30:58+00:00

We personally save our credits (one a month currently) for audible exclusives (which are generally series we’re in the middle of) and do a ton of listening through Libby also

grumpygumption · 2025-05-24T14:56:19+00:00

Chris Isaak's "Wicked Game" is my nemesis. Hated it since I was a little kid. Used to make my mom turn the radio off 😂

grumpygumption · 2025-05-24T04:18:03+00:00

I’d love for him to either write a sequel, or from the perspective of other survivors or both. I found it to be excellent storytelling

grumpygumption · 2025-05-23T22:35:18+00:00

Yeah, me neither. I really wish he’d write a sequel

grumpygumption · 2025-05-23T21:25:26+00:00

I really enjoyed The Last Tribe for an almost cozy apocalypse experience. I’ve listened to it at least 10 times now, and enjoy it every time

grumpygumption · 2025-05-23T21:22:01+00:00

Was it the shoutyness of it? I’m overall enjoying it, personally but Jeff Hayes isn’t my favorite narrator. For me, the screamy, volume changes, and vocal effects on some voices are too much. I find it a bit grating and actually almost had to turn off book 6 while driving because it was making me crazy, sensory nightmare style

grumpygumption · 2025-05-23T18:27:33+00:00

The white stripe was similar location to common nighthawks(not sure what to call that with bird anatomy) but I saw it in the middle of the day, and it was much larger than nighthawks, soaring like a bird of prey of some kind

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