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Episode 2

Skunk Season 1 Episode 1

Was it just floating or was it out for a swim?

Compared to their wooden counterparts, windjammers may not be quite as elegant, but I find some of them quite attractive. E.g. Christian Radich.

That ship, btw, was the star in the 1958 film Windjammer. Shot in Cinemiracle, it is well worth a watch.

Huh, never knew this was where the RPG term spelljammer came from.

I've never run or been in a spelljammer campaign but have always been interested. I just thought they "jammed" together magic and age of sail ideas and that's where they got the name from lol.

NGC 4490 is a galaxy colliding with the smaller NGC 4485 galaxy, and both are about 25 million light years away. This image was taken with a monochrome camera through filters for luminance (all visible light), red, green, blue, and Hydrogen-alpha (656nm), which were combined into a color image. The Hydrogen-alpha was combined with red (described below) to make the HaLRGB image. The pink Ha regions are star forming nebulae within the galaxies. This got cropped out of the final pic, but I ended getting some gorgeous diffraction spikes on this star near the edge of the full FOV

Places where I host my other images:

Flickr | Instagram

Equipment:

• TPO 6" F/4 Imaging Newtonian

• Orion Sirius EQ-G

• ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro

• Skywatcher Quattro Coma Corrector

• ZWO EFW 8x1.25"/31mm

• Astronomik LRGB+CLS Filters- 31mm

• Astrodon 31mm Ha 5nm, Oiii 3nm, Sii 5nm

• Agena 50mm Deluxe Straight-Through Guide Scope

• ZWO ASI-120MC for guiding

• Moonlite Autofocuser

Acquisition: 27 hours 37 minutes (Camera at half Unity Gain, -15°C)

• Ha - 128x360"

• Lum - 464x60"

• Red - 152x60"

• Green - 150x60"

• Blue - 123x60"

• Flats- 30 per filter

• 24 JimmyFlats per broadband filter

Capture Software:

• Captured using N.I.N.A.

PixInsight Processing:

• BatchPreProcessing (with premade JimmyFlats)

• StarAlignment

• Blink

• ImageIntegration

• DrizzleIntegration (2x, Var β=1.5)

• DynamicCrop

• DynamicBackgroundExtraction

duplicated each image and removed stars via StarXterminator. Ran DBE to generate background model. model subtracted from original pic using the following PixelMath (math courtesy of /u/jimmythechicken1)

$T * med(model) / model

Luminance:

• BlurXTerminator

• ArcsinhStretch + histogramtransformation to bring nonlinear

RGB:

• ChannelCombinaiton to combine monochrome R, G, B stacks into color image

• SpectroPhotometricColorCalibration

• BlurXTerminator (correct only mode)

• HSV Repair

making clean Ha

loosely following this guide

This basically subtracts any broadband signal from the Ha pic, leaving only the Ha emission, which is then combined in with the red and a little bit of the blue channels

• PixelMath to isolate just Ha

Ha-Q * (Red-med (Red)), Q=0.75

• PixelMath to add Ha into RGB image

Red = $T+B*(Ha_Clean - med(Ha_Clean))

Green = $T

Blue = $T+B0.2(Ha_Clean - med(Ha_Clean))

B variable = 0.6 (this controls how strongly the Ha is added)

Nonlinear

• ArcsinhStretch + histogramtransformation to bring HaRGB image nonlinear

• MLT for large scale chrominance noise reduction

• shitloads of curve transformations to adjust lightness, contrast, saturation, etc (with various luminance and star masks)

• slight SCNR to remove some greens

• LRGBCombination with stretched Luminance

• DeepSNR

• more curves

• ColorSaturation to slightly desaturate the Ha regions (they were very pink compared to the rest of the galaxy

• slight noisexterminator

• LocalHistogramEqualization

• even more curves

• Resample to 75%

• DynamicCrop onto just the galaxy

• annotation

Cannon prices skyrocket as [email protected] users scramble to own one.

Damn, I met a Slovene on Lemmy

Stewart Hicks (architect and YouTuber) made a video on Brutalism that's pretty funny. I felt a little called out.

My favorite architect is John Portman. Though his work wasn't really considered brutalist but there's some overlap in the styles.

All they want is a horse that looks at them like

Nice!

Oh, Montreal? Was pretty sure it wasn’t the US… but couldn’t be completely sure.

Thanks!

This might give you a better idea of pronunciation.

• Punishing mild workplace infractions with literal torture?
• Punishing poor performance with limb removal, as well as sapient beings being sold involuntarily. Also more walling up.
• Lives every day hoping that management continues to find him useful so he won't be scrapped.

Original before I tried removing some of the people.

For non-Americans and people who may not have paid attention in history class (or simply don't remember), CptEnder is referring to the Battle of Atlanta during the American Civil War. The photo is of Confederate fortifications against the Union.

I haven't seen this photo before - do you know if this is before or after Atlanta fell? Looks like maybe a before, to me.