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Posts Made By: James Brown

June 22, 2017 10:42 PM Forum: Politics

Republican "Health Care"

Posted By James Brown
David Cotterell said:

I fail to understand the Stockholm Syndrome relationship between R voters and R policy.

Dave


No Dave, you obviously lack the depth, quite remarkably and completely, to understand either the possible benefits of R policy or the motivations of R voters.

(I'm assuming that the enumerated points above are actually your views and not simply another plagiarized cut/paste job.)

Your blinders make you the perfect anti-Richard - you are only capable of seeing your own point of view and therefore, you arrogantly label those who disagree as being evil or fools (those poor R voters). Unfortunately, you have exchanged Richard's directness for a kind of snide oiliness.

This type of ignorant hubris, (Stockholm Syndrome... sheesh...), is one reason the Democrat brand is so toxic across much of the Country. Republican voters and moderate independents are justifiably annoyed by half-wits from Hollywood, the press, or even Canada oozing smug inanities about "voting against their own interests" and "being too stupid to see it."

Jim

June 27, 2017 02:45 PM Forum: Politics

So Bigly Sad

Posted By James Brown
Matthew Marcus said:

It is sad to me that a site designed for discussing and trading astronomy has more conversations concerning "Politics" than discussing Astronomy.

Politics facilitates day-to-day banter. We enjoy it. There are those on Cloudy Nights who post literally thousands of posts a year on the nuanced and arguably phantom characteristics of this occular or that objective. Then their sycophants will post thousands of anonymous versions of "ditto." Ideological camps form. Debates are re-hashed annually for decades. As much as I enjoy amateur astronomy (and I've got a lot of equipment, much bought here) - I find the never ending and painfully repetitive astro-postings on CN to be bigly boring. I do like talking football over there! 8)

Just my opinion...

Jim

June 30, 2017 08:02 PM Forum: Politics

What a world

Posted By James Brown
James Lacey said:

The President of the United States is cyber-bullying a woman in the media on Twitter. Thank goodness we got rid of that Dijon mustard loving, Kenyan born, welfare loving, Muslim that came before him. shocked

I had reason to Google "Glen Plaid" this morning. During this bit of research, I learned (incidentally) that President Ronald Reagan was considered 'un-Presidential' for wearing a gray-and-blue Glen plaid suit on a European trip in 1982.

All I can say is that the standards of "un-Presidential" behavior have taken quite a beating since 1982.

Have a great 4th!

Jim


July 25, 2017 01:56 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Need help on how to move telescopes

Posted By James Brown
Hi Scott:

I've never owned the types of telescopes your father has, so I can't help you with mirror locking and so forth. I do know that your best bet for selling this equipment is this web site, assuming that you want to sell it. You'll get a much better price than you would on Craig's list or an estate sale. You could place ads here and possibly find some Bay-Area buyers willing to pick up the gear so that you do not need to move it or ultimately ship it.

If you are going to keep the gear, I'm sure someone will be along presently with a link to the owner's manuals or a step-by-step guide.

Jim

August 8, 2017 02:48 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Finally, images!

Posted By James Brown
Floyd Blue said:

Ok, so we had about 8 months of poor weather during the New Moon week. Because of this, despite many attempts, I only managed to get images in July and August, a total of three.

http://www.floydblueastrophotography.com/Bright-Nebula/i-5wxjDDN/A

Ngc6888 is the first from July, it as my first run at this with the new Atik One 6.0 camera and the TEC140 with just the filed flattener. I wanted to try to capture a larger image of it and with some detail. This was an LRGB image, with a few hours of Ha blended.

http://www.floydblueastrophotography.com/Bright-Nebula/i-S4SWqKF/A

Then Sh2-101, a well photographed object, but worthy of a new set of data. LRGB Ha

http://www.floydblueastrophotography.com/Bright-Nebula/i-P8ZTfT5/A
Finally, August only allowed for one object, M-27, then the weather forced me to retreat to home. LRGB Ha

Hope you like them. Conditions were not too bad, better than 8 months of nothing. laugh.gif
The Atik One 6.0, the Sony 694 chip, still impresses me and the smaller image size makes it good for objects such as this. at .9 arc sec, it is a good combination for my skies.

Oh, bottom right, there is an icon, like three different size folders, it allows you to select the size of the image. These are at full resolution,150 dpi, love this new site, no restrictions on size.

Hi Floyd:

Very nice!

Jim

August 22, 2017 01:03 AM Forum: Solar System Observing

Rough drafts

Posted By James Brown
Jim Brown said:

These are unprocessed, hot off the memory card. I think they look pretty good in the rough! I should have some really fine totality shots when I merge the images shot at different f stops. I had the camera pre-programmed to shoot 7 bracketed images at 1 f-stop intervals, so I could just stand there gawking at the sky while I pressed the remote over and over again. What a great experience! My first total eclipse.

Our group was on the center line north of Torrington WY. We set up on some State-owned ranch land. It was marked "No Trespassing" but a genuinely cool Wyoming State Trooper invited anyone who asked in through the gate.

Canon EOS 6D
Astro-Physics Traveler
Astro-Physics 1100 GTO.

Jim

August 22, 2017 01:05 AM Forum: Solar System Observing

Rough drafts

Posted By James Brown
Jim Brown said:

These are unprocessed, hot off the memory card and aggressively downsized. I think they look pretty good in the rough! I should have some really fine totality shots when I merge the images shot at different f stops. I had the camera pre-programmed to shoot 7 bracketed images at 1 f-stop intervals, so I could just stand there gawking at the sky while I pressed the remote over and over again. What a great experience! My first total eclipse.

Our group was on the center line north of Torrington WY. We set up on some State-owned ranch land. It was marked "No Trespassing" but a genuinely cool Wyoming State Trooper invited anyone who asked in through the gate.

Canon EOS 6D
Astro-Physics Traveler
Astro-Physics 1100 GTO.

Jim

August 22, 2017 01:05 AM Forum: Solar System Observing

Rough drafts

Posted By James Brown
Jim Brown said:

These are unprocessed, hot off the memory card and aggressively downsized. I think they look pretty good in the rough! I should have some really fine totality shots when I merge the images shot at different f stops. I had the camera pre-programmed to shoot 7 bracketed images at 1 f-stop intervals, so I could just stand there gawking at the sky while I pressed the remote over and over again. What a great experience! My first total eclipse.

Our group was on the center line north of Torrington WY. We set up on some State-owned ranch land. It was marked "No Trespassing" but a genuinely cool Wyoming State Trooper invited anyone who asked in through the gate.

Canon EOS 6D
Astro-Physics Traveler
Astro-Physics 1100 GTO.

Jim

August 22, 2017 01:08 AM Forum: Politics

Greetings from Trump-land!

Posted By James Brown
Jim Brown said:

Hi Gang:

We must have passed a dozen MAGA billboards on ranches! They take their politics seriously up here in cattle country. These are unprocessed, hot off the memory card and aggressively downsized. I think they look pretty good in the rough! I should have some really fine totality shots when I merge the images shot at different f stops. I had the camera pre-programmed to shoot 7 bracketed images at 1 f-stop intervals, so I could just stand there gawking at the sky while I pressed the remote over and over again. What a great experience! My first total eclipse.

Our group was on the center line north of Torrington WY. We set up on some State-owned ranch land. It was marked "No Trespassing" but a genuinely cool Wyoming State Trooper invited anyone who asked in through the gate.

Canon EOS 6D
Astro-Physics Traveler
Astro-Physics 1100 GTO.

Jim

August 22, 2017 01:09 AM Forum: Politics

Greetings from Trump-land!

Posted By James Brown
Jim Brown said:

Hi Gang:

We must have passed a dozen MAGA billboards on ranches! They take their politics seriously up here in cattle country. These are unprocessed, hot off the memory card and aggressively downsized. I think they look pretty good in the rough! I should have some really fine totality shots when I merge the images shot at different f stops. I had the camera pre-programmed to shoot 7 bracketed images at 1 f-stop intervals, so I could just stand there gawking at the sky while I pressed the remote over and over again. What a great experience! My first total eclipse.

Our group was on the center line north of Torrington WY. We set up on some State-owned ranch land. It was marked "No Trespassing" but a genuinely cool Wyoming State Trooper invited anyone who asked in through the gate.

Canon EOS 6D
Astro-Physics Traveler
Astro-Physics 1100 GTO.

Jim

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