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Month: March 2006

First picture taken with my new solar telescope

Posted on2006-03-232006-03-231 Comment

I just received from Scopetronix the camera adaptor ring and mount to mate my Sony DSC-V1 camera to my Coronado Filters P.S.T. Naturally, I had to use it as soon as possible. I waited for a nice break in the overcast and was able to snap this picture of the Read More …

CategoriesAstronomy

Happy birthday, Mr. Yuck

Posted on2006-03-211 Comment

You’re 35 years old today.

CategoriesLife

lithium.elemental.org has faster CPUs

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The primary server for my home on the ‘net, elemental.org, lithium.elemental.org (a venerable Sun Ultra 2 running Solaris 8) has been upgraded to two 400Mhz UltraSPARC-II CPUs with 2MB of L2 cache each. In the coming months lithium will be replaced with a new server. Most likely this’ll be in Read More …

CategoriesGeekery

New telescope purchased for solar viewing

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Last week I purchased a Coronado Filters Personal Solar Telescope. This telescope is made specificially for sun viewing and incorporates a filter that bandpasses the hydrogen-α wavelength, allowing clear views of the sun’s chromosphere.

CategoriesAstronomy

It’s official: Nation closes on July 16th 2006

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The people who run the Alchemy night at Nation Nightclub in DC have posted a statement that affirms the fears of the DC clubbing scene – Nation is closing on July 16th 2006 to make way for the redevelopment of the South Capitol Street area for the new DC baseball Read More …

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Eclipse simulation video posted

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I made an eclipse simulation video of the upcoming solar eclipse as it will be seen from the SoulClipse Festival in Turkey next week. It’s in H.264 format and shows the eclipse as it will be seen from the ground and from orbit over Turkey. It was made with Starry Read More …

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New computer in the house

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After 5 years of being a Macintosh user and owner, I purchesed the parts to make my own x86 system. I did it to play the odd Windows-only game (CoD2 and the upcoming Spore) as well as for working on OpenSolaris. It’s a Athlon64 3200 CPU, 1GB of Corsair RAM, and Read More …

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