Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Lacey

It seems the Supreme Court agrees.


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-orders-trump-administration-not-deport-venezuelans-now-rcna201949


Supreme Court orders Trump administration not to deport Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act for now


WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court in the early hours of Saturday told the Trump administration not to take any action to deport Venezuelan men based in Texas it alleges are gang members.

In a statement, Lee Gelernt, the lead ACLU attorney in the case, praised the Supreme Court's decision, saying, “These men were in imminent danger of spending their lives in a horrific foreign prison without ever having had a chance to go to court. We are relieved that the Supreme Court has not permitted the administration to whisk them away the way others were just last month.”

Originally Posted by James Brown

That would be a bad idea for Clarence.

Originally Posted by Brian McFarland

It seems like an obvious no-brainer, doesn't it?  Yet another incredibly dumb crisis brought upon themselves.

Maybe when DOGE wakes up and realizes what a waste of resources all this has been, they'll fire the lot of them. Wishful thinking.

Originally Posted by James Brown

It is such a no brainer, the only conclusion is it is an intentional plan to extend Executive authority.   Which is fine, if they respect the new boundaries set by the Court (or Congress).  The Executive has been grabbing authority for 100 years.   It is indeed a Constitutional crisis if the Executive ignores express unambiguous boundaries , for example by deporting the alleged Venezuelan gangsters without additional Court orders.

Originally Posted by James Brown

Thanks!  The picture submission interface does not have fields for equipment like it used to, so I guess I should put it all in the comments?  In this case the telescope is a 125 mm f 7.8 doublet refractor from AstroTec that I bought used here.  My Ha filter is from Solar Spectrum, I have had it for years, and it was serviced by Solar Spectrum about 3 years ago.  The Solar Spectrum filters are at the back and need an f28 or so light cone to have the highest contrast.  So, for the "whole disk" solar shots I use a 2x Baader telecentric and a front aperture over the objective that stops it down to about 70mm.  So I get 1950 mm focal length and about f28.  for the close up shots (like today's) I use the 125mm objective wide open and a 4x Baader telecentric for 3900 mm focal length and f31.

The objective is filtered initially with a full aperture Baader CERF energy rejection filter, that I bought used here ages ago.  The camera is a non-cooled ZWO ASI294 that has a big enough chip to capture the entire output of the solar filter after I run it through a Baader solar telecompressor.  There is some vignetting, ezpecially on the close ups.

Capture is with freeware Firecapture, stacking of the best 20% of 5000 frames is with freeware AutoStackert.  Wavelet sharpening with freeware Registax.   I take a balanced shot of the disk and a overexposed shot of the proms.  These are combined in Photoshop such that the disk is inverted and the proms are not.  This gives me a black sky and white proms with matching white filaments that I like a lot.