ludw @ ludw @lemmy.world

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Both Ducky and keychron have some prebuilt with hotswap. For example the Ducky One 3, you could get it with Red Silent switches and if someone really hates the feeling you can just get new switches and swap them out.

A lot of images seems to be gone from posts in /c/pics is this related to the hack or the cleanup after?

Norway can be very rainy. I was in Bergen some years ago and the locals asked why I even came there as it has rained every day for like a month or something.

It does the job, but this lens is right at the limit of what it can do, especially with the guide scope as well. I also have the counterweight kit.

It's not super precise, some adjustments have a bit of play so it takes some finessing but it can produce pretty good results.

I haven't looked into is there's something better out there now however.

Swede reporting in: I think my last haircut was ca 450 SEK (~42USD), it's not customary to tip for haircuts here, in fact it would be quite weird.

Yeah, it can be pretty expensive. Some tips:

• figure out if you want a photography kit you can also use for astrophotography or something more dedicated to astrophotography like a telescope you can put a camera in.
• camera equipment is a lot cheaper used.
• A lot of deep space objects are most visible in infrared, a camera without IR filter can capture this but wont be much use for anything else.
• the old astrophotography reddit is a great place to learn about equipment tradeoffs as all photos are posted with equipment details. Makes it easier to learn what you can realistically capture and what requires 10x your budget.

It depends a bit on what equipment you have, but at least with my gear I don't see much even on individual 100s exposures until I post process to bring out what was captured.

I think it depends on what client you use. I haven't seen it in any Lemmy app but you can find Lemmy users with a Mastodon client and add a note, so I guess it's up to the various clients to implement.

Thanks!

I had a camera, a telephoto lens and a tripod, got some initial results and started looking into improvements :)

The astrophotography reddit was a great place to learn as well. Not sure if there's still any life there or if it's gone the way of most of Reddit...

Here's my first picture of this Nebula, it's just a 400mm lens and a tripod. One 2.5min exposure.

Two things help a lot:

• Tracking, either with a proper telescope mount or as I did, a star adventurer. You align it using the pole star, then it rotates the same speed as earth, counteracting the rotation so the sky stays in the same location relative to your camera.
• Stacking, even with tracking I typically dont get longer than 1-3min exposures. So instead take multiple and stack the images in software. This image is 14x 100s exposures.

But, even without any of those, I've taken images of the Orion Nebulae with just a tripod. It will be a lot blurrier and noisier and generally worse, but its pretty cool to see it show up anyway.

enhancing

enhanced image ready: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Orion_Nebula_-_Hubble_2006_mosaic_18000.jpg/1280px-Orion_Nebula_-_Hubble_2006_mosaic_18000.jpg

(this one is taken by Hubble)

Here you can see where to find it in the night sky (assuming you find the Orion constellation): https://www.go-astronomy.com/images/constellations/Orion.jpg

M42 is what the picture is of. Easy to find but hard (impossible?) to see without a camera.

Feel free to use it. I took it just before covid, I've had it as my lock screen image since then :)

Have you tried Liftoff? I think it's the best one so far for Android.

Liftoff (Android) is the best one I've tried so far.

• Spectroid: what's that sound? Do I hear that faint but annoying sound or just imagine it? With spectroid you can see the sound spectrum over time.
• Nova launcher: Lets you cutomize the home screen of your phone and make it just right. I like my apps a bit closer together in five columns instead of four. Nova launcher let's me do this.
• Business calendar: it's just so much better than the default calendar, especially if you have lots of meetings and need an information dense view.