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Half Moon
This is a picture of the half moon from early in January 2009. This was taken with a Canon 10D through a Takahashi FS102 refractor at prime focus. -
5D Mark II Astrophotography Tests
There have been a lot of reports of the 5D's trouble with bright point lights. I recently updated to the new firmware (version 1.0.7) and took some test shots with the 5D Mark II and a Takahashi FS102 refractor. I also wanted to test out the sensitivity at various ISO values. All these pictures were [...] -
New Scans of Old Astrophotos
I recently had some of my old astrophoto slides scanned with a Noritsu slide scanner so I can put them into permanent storage and finally move into 100% digital photography. I've learned a lot about image processing and the tools are much better now than they were when I originally took the photos. There are three [...] -
M42 shot with a Canon 10D
It's been at least three years since I've done any astrophotograpy but last night I lugged out the equipment and shot a few frames. I only made it out as far as the driveway and the sky isn't very dark in northern San Diego but it's amazing what kind of results you can get [...] -
Using Dashboards to Reinforce Memory Budgets
Console video games run on memory restricted environments and even with half a gigabyte of space it runs out quickly. It's easy to know when you're out of memory, what we want to know is exactly what approach to take to fix the problem. With all the information available the challenge is presenting the information [...] -
Protected: Memory Metrics Pipeline
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Real-Time Earthquake Map
Flash, and Flex in particular, has a solid set of tools available ata visualization. When I found that the USGS provided realtime earthquake data as csv files I couldn't resist building a viewer. It's based on a traffic map by Nathan at Flowing Data -
New Mobile
Just hung a new mobile in the living room. It turns out that a drill on a long stick works really well. -
Red Bull Air Race
I ended up at the Red Bull Air Race last weekend. The tickets were $25, but we just stood at the convention center for free and watched from high-up. These guys are crazy, it was like MotoGP plane racing. Air Race Gallery