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Post by International Hockey Club on Jul 31, 2013 22:57:12 GMT -5
Here's a nice thread to post any pictures you may have taken that you like!
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Post by International Hockey Club on Jul 31, 2013 23:03:39 GMT -5
Taken by me yesterday, you probably saw it on Facebook...this is Thompson Hall, the oldest building at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, a small town not far from Portsmouth. It was first built when the University moved from Hanover to Durham in 1892. It once housed the entire university and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in December 1996. Full resolution: i.imgur.com/KIakD59.jpg
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Post by Ryan on Aug 1, 2013 16:14:43 GMT -5
Here's a nice thread to post any pictures you may have taken that you like! ANY pictures?
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Post by International Hockey Club on Aug 1, 2013 20:39:16 GMT -5
Here's a nice thread to post any pictures you may have taken that you like! ANY pictures? ...probably should've worded that better.... Pictures that are not of you, but a picture that you took of something. Please keep it SFW lol
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2013 22:54:38 GMT -5
What a great heritage we have:
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Post by Toronto Ice Frogs on Jul 25, 2014 18:47:34 GMT -5
Oh, I have to take over this now that I noticed it. Backstory - Our family used to go camping out in trailer parks all summer long. We were in one park for like 5 years before ownership changed and we moved across the street. The new park didn't have any trees that covered our view of the sky. Cue a few comments about the starts being great, and my dad loving stars since he was a kid, and a telescope happened. With time, my dad made this his hobby, and little did he know at the time where it would lead him. After using the telescope a few times just to look through, he started having a penchant for photography. Naturally, the stars were his target. So over the course of a summer or two he bought a bunch of equipment - aumomated mounts, cameras, telescope stuff, etc - to take pictures of the night sky. He liked it so much that he started - due to being a programmer by trade - making his own software to help automate the picture taking process. This is because most of the deep sky pictures you'll see are really a collection of many pictures taken over the course of multiple nights. Think of it like this - each picture takes fragments of light. The longer the picture, the more precise the light. Every picture also collects different fragments. So when you "stack" the pictures together, you get the details from each one, and make a clearer picture. This means that it can have upwards of 10 hours worth of 3 minute pictures just to get one final result. There's a whole set of stuff to do, and I won't bore you with the details, but needless to say having a software automate the picture taking process from the comfort of your couch, using a remote access laptop, is better then (reminder : Canadian) freezing your ass off in the winter at minus 30 degrees C (which is probably around -22 F, for you americans... - 40 C = - 40 F, but 0 C = 32 F). Anyhow... so when he started to have a finished product, he ended up talking about it online and there was interest in it if he were to sell it. So he did. 2 years later, it's bringing him enough money per month that he's considering making it his full time job. He has it running for a multitude of cameras (mostly Canon up to recently, the Nikon program is either still in beta or coming out of the beta stages... haven't asked in a while), and spends most of his nights troubleshooting or improving it. So... yeah. One night of a comment about the night sky being beautiful (the advantages of living in a relative middle of nowhere is no light pollution, meaning you get to see more) and boom - business venture. Of course, I have to supply pics now, right? They're currently uploading, but at least I can start with one hell of a bang (probably my favorite)!
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Post by KC Scouts on Jul 25, 2014 18:51:24 GMT -5
That is awesome!
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Post by International Hockey Club on Jul 25, 2014 18:52:42 GMT -5
Oh, I have to take over this now that I noticed it. Backstory - Our family used to go camping out in trailer parks all summer long. We were in one park for like 5 years before ownership changed and we moved across the street. The new park didn't have any trees that covered our view of the sky. Cue a few comments about the starts being great, and my dad loving stars since he was a kid, and a telescope happened. With time, my dad made this his hobby, and little did he know at the time where it would lead him. After using the telescope a few times just to look through, he started having a penchant for photography. Naturally, the stars were his target. So over the course of a summer or two he bought a bunch of equipment - aumomated mounts, cameras, telescope stuff, etc - to take pictures of the night sky. He liked it so much that he started - due to being a programmer by trade - making his own software to help automate the picture taking process. This is because most of the deep sky pictures you'll see are really a collection of many pictures taken over the course of multiple nights. Think of it like this - each picture takes fragments of light. The longer the picture, the more precise the light. Every picture also collects different fragments. So when you "stack" the pictures together, you get the details from each one, and make a clearer picture. This means that it can have upwards of 10 hours worth of 3 minute pictures just to get one final result. There's a whole set of stuff to do, and I won't bore you with the details, but needless to say having a software automate the picture taking process from the comfort of your couch, using a remote access laptop, is better then (reminder : Canadian) freezing your ass off in the winter at minus 30 degrees C (which is probably around -22 F, for you americans... - 40 C = - 40 F, but 0 C = 32 F). Anyhow... so when he started to have a finished product, he ended up talking about it online and there was interest in it if he were to sell it. So he did. 2 years later, it's bringing him enough money per month that he's considering making it his full time job. He has it running for a multitude of cameras (mostly Canon up to recently, the Nikon program is either still in beta or coming out of the beta stages... haven't asked in a while), and spends most of his nights troubleshooting or improving it. So... yeah. One night of a comment about the night sky being beautiful (the advantages of living in a relative middle of nowhere is no light pollution, meaning you get to see more) and boom - business venture. Of course, I have to supply pics now, right? They're currently uploading, but at least I can start with one hell of a bang (probably my favorite)! That's pretty swell!
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