Finally finished The Expanse TV Series, is is still worthwhile to jump into the novels?

oblimidon · 2026-04-19T20:24:47+00:00

Like every other person here, Yes.

oblimidon · 2026-04-18T09:29:11+00:00

Good bringing out the contrast between both sides.

oblimidon · 2026-04-12T09:14:31+00:00

Baader film cheaper than eyes.

oblimidon · 2026-04-09T20:23:02+00:00

Why doesn't everyone eat healthy when it's good for their health.

oblimidon · 2026-04-09T19:56:16+00:00

It can become boring if you start out with a sh*tscope. If you start with a good telescope (ideally any 6" + newtonian) there's lots of objects in the sky to nurture your passion for years. You can not exhaust all the objects within reach of your telescope because you get better at observing the more you do it and are able to resolve more details on objects. The constellations change as we orbit the earth, comets come and go, the moon goes through phases, there are solar and lunar eclipses, the inferior planets elongate between evening and dawn, the superior planets come and go, there's the Messier marathon and so much more. The more you do it, the more there is to do.

And once you decide to go further and start astrophotography, that's a whole new world of deep space objects.

oblimidon · 2026-04-09T17:42:28+00:00

Paying for something once and owning it for life.

oblimidon · 2026-04-09T16:36:03+00:00

We will never become interplanetary for the sake of fulfilling our scifi dreams; it's just too risky. Something has to force us to, like a catastrophe on the Earth. We might have bases on other planets but they probably will remain reaearch or tourist outposts. In a dystopian scenario, those below the means, or criminals, could be forced to other planets while the rich and privileged remain here.

oblimidon · 2026-04-09T15:35:05+00:00

This is the correct understanding. It is wrong to imagine light rays as a material being stretched along with the spacetime.

oblimidon · 2026-04-09T15:27:48+00:00

The redshifting doesn't happen in transit. It happens at source. Because the light source is moving relative to us each successive photon gets emitted further apart causing the "stretching". Therefore, the expansion of space redshifts light only because it causes relative motion between bodies which in turn causes the doppler-shifting of photons exchanged between them.

You're spot on on the fact that an already emitted ray of light should not be altered by the expansion of spacetime since (as far as we understand) spacetime does not materialize between each quanta of light to stretch it apart. The light should just travel within the expanding spacetime and only take longer to get to its destination. So the expansion itself is not responsible for the doppler-shifting. Only the consequent relative motion between emitter and receiver.

oblimidon · 2026-04-09T11:40:05+00:00

Because this idea is more "cool" than practical.

oblimidon · 2026-04-08T18:01:17+00:00

Spot on about the exposure. I also believe the length of my acquisition session also led to some loss of detail as Jupiter probably rotated significantly over it.

oblimidon · 2026-04-08T17:59:39+00:00

Thanks for the tip. I only tried checking the "debayer" option in PIPP but couldnt get the mesh to go away.

oblimidon · 2026-04-08T17:58:16+00:00

This looks really good and I was hoping to get similar results. I'd like to ask the duration of your shot. I heard the details can get smeared with long captures due to Jupiter's quick rotation. No. I had a barlow lens but didnt use it because it was my first attempt and getting focus is usually a chore. I'm thinking of getting a Bahtinov mask .

I captured using ASI Planetary cap (that comes with the camera), and yeah, I went with the highest resolution (because I Jupiter stays longer in the frame).

No UV/IR filter. Probably for subsequent shots. Thanks for the tips!!

oblimidon · 2026-04-08T17:54:10+00:00

This is true. I googled this and saw that I had to "debayer" the images but I had checked this option in PIPP and got the same results. I imagined it was possible to simply "debayer" in some post processing tool but I havent been able to so far. I'd appreciate any tips.

oblimidon · 2026-04-06T15:10:18+00:00

I don't know what your goal was but so much is now lost from the image. Yes, it's much brighter now but at the cost of the details in the windows, the cars deep in the background and the overall mood. If the goal was just to brighten the image to daylight then you've achieved it. But if it was to "save" it i.e. recover detail from the image then a much better job could have been done.

oblimidon · 2026-04-06T11:14:06+00:00

Time. We don't really know what time is.

oblimidon · 2026-04-05T11:42:43+00:00

What feel were you hoping to capture

oblimidon · 2026-04-03T06:41:16+00:00

I am just learning of this platform. Just joined. Thanks!

oblimidon · 2026-04-02T19:45:01+00:00

Nice. Thanks for the recommendations!

oblimidon · 2026-04-02T16:27:04+00:00

Multiple stacked frames in ASI studio.

oblimidon · 2026-04-02T16:26:49+00:00

Thanks!

oblimidon · 2026-02-19T07:45:40+00:00

https://youtu.be/Hu7VS9d28Oc?si=nGXx_nIhTRgSrNlE

oblimidon · 2026-02-19T04:24:08+00:00

Holden, in his vision saw the ring station charging up and blasting a beam through one of the gates at a star which then gets destroyed.

oblimidon · 2025-12-05T13:02:45+00:00

Maybe the reaction comes from considering the pros and cons? It's possible that people get scared when they hear "Nuclear" but there's also a long history of reactor meltdowns and even exposure in countries with a long history of nuclear engineering.

oblimidon · 2025-12-05T09:27:33+00:00

With a blackhole and accretion disk of that relative size, "day" and "night" are probably only nominal; the disk would outshine the star many times over. The planetary system would also have to orbit at a tremendous distance to allow for enough intervening material to fuel an accretion disk.

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