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The Aperture Database Structure
Posted on December 9, 2005 | 3 CommentsI'm working on decoding the Aperture database structure. Just playing around in the database has been very interesting. -
Aperture Performance
Posted on December 9, 2005 | No CommentsApple's new Aperture program is awesome. It's easily the best image cataloging program available, and it's in version 1. However, the performance leaves quite a bit to be desired. Here... -
Surfing photos from Ponto Jetty in Carlsbad.
Posted on July 25, 2005 | No CommentsJust added some new surfing photos. Shooting against the sunset makes the color a bit odd, but not bad overall. -
Better Photo Handling In MovableType
Posted on July 3, 2005 | No CommentsAfter getting sick at the XBox developer conference (and dosing up on plenty of dextromethorphan) I decided to move my website content over to MovableType. I had been using a... -
G11 Bearing Upgrade
Posted on February 17, 2002 | 3 CommentsThis is a tutorial on replacing the bearings on the Losmandy G11 telescope mount. This may or may not improve the tracking ability. It's kind of fun to do anyway.... -
Astrophotography Equipment
Posted on January 2, 2001 | No CommentsTakahashi FS102 Refractor This Apochromatic telescope provides very sharp images with no color fringed stars. When reduced to F/5.9 you get about 3 degrees of coverage in the sky. I... -
Combining LRGB Channels
Posted on January 2, 2001 | No CommentsMany astrophotographs are taken as multiple monochromatic photos that need to be combined into a color finished product later. Each photo editing package seems to have it's own method. This is a short review of what I have. -
Noise Reduction In Film Images
Posted on January 1, 2001 | No CommentsThe idea behind this method is that the low-light areas of the photograph need to be smoothed in order to remove grain artifacts while the bright stars and nebulosity should remain unchanged. To achieve this in Photoshop you need to construct a mask for the Gausian Blur filter.