NightRunner417
@nightrunner417.bsky.social
Legit mad scientist ever trying to rip a hole in spacetime while simultaneously being a spiritualist and VEHEMENT anti-fascist. Insane pursuits include photography, astronomy, DIY electronics, microbiology, computer programming, Earth and space science.
I reject your scraps and select NGC5866 instead. It's frickin' glorious.
December 16, 2024 at 3:31 PM
I reject your scraps and select NGC5866 instead. It's frickin' glorious.
The Geminids are pretty impressive this year. Very bright and frequent. Notice Gemini dead center of the video, hence "Geminids". The radiant is very obviously in the Gemini region - lots of them radiating around that spot as the Earth plows through that direction in space, picking up meteoric dust.
December 15, 2024 at 3:20 AM
The Geminids are pretty impressive this year. Very bright and frequent. Notice Gemini dead center of the video, hence "Geminids". The radiant is very obviously in the Gemini region - lots of them radiating around that spot as the Earth plows through that direction in space, picking up meteoric dust.
Good morning BlueSky! May you all have the Bluest of skies today with nice breeze, gentle warmth, and those cool little puffy cumulus clouds just a blowin' along while the butterflies dance. And also:
Evil Laugh Ensues MUHUAHAHA! Being able to program is its own high. I'm God-complexin' today. >:-)
Evil Laugh Ensues MUHUAHAHA! Being able to program is its own high. I'm God-complexin' today. >:-)
December 3, 2024 at 4:42 PM
Good morning BlueSky! May you all have the Bluest of skies today with nice breeze, gentle warmth, and those cool little puffy cumulus clouds just a blowin' along while the butterflies dance. And also:
Evil Laugh Ensues MUHUAHAHA! Being able to program is its own high. I'm God-complexin' today. >:-)
Evil Laugh Ensues MUHUAHAHA! Being able to program is its own high. I'm God-complexin' today. >:-)
And for those of you soooo persnickety that you just gotta have motion with your meteorites, this is for you. Sorry about the long runtime. The camera DVR forces 30 second minimum capture time after the trigger event, so it's always 50 seconds minimum.
December 3, 2024 at 5:46 AM
And for those of you soooo persnickety that you just gotta have motion with your meteorites, this is for you. Sorry about the long runtime. The camera DVR forces 30 second minimum capture time after the trigger event, so it's always 50 seconds minimum.
It would appear that I finally found the right amount of caffeine to get my brain working like reeeeally well, so I spent the day improving parts of my cam systems and website. Finally made use of the motion capture snapshots that have been piling up, particularly the skycam. Behold the meteorites!
December 3, 2024 at 5:39 AM
It would appear that I finally found the right amount of caffeine to get my brain working like reeeeally well, so I spent the day improving parts of my cam systems and website. Finally made use of the motion capture snapshots that have been piling up, particularly the skycam. Behold the meteorites!
In case anyone wondered, my little background picture of the Cygnus region of the Milky Way was actually shot by yours truly. All I did is stick a decent 12mm lens on a ZWO ASI385MC astro USB camera and aim it straight up for a few seconds open shutter. Anyone can do it pretty easily:
December 2, 2024 at 7:18 PM
In case anyone wondered, my little background picture of the Cygnus region of the Milky Way was actually shot by yours truly. All I did is stick a decent 12mm lens on a ZWO ASI385MC astro USB camera and aim it straight up for a few seconds open shutter. Anyone can do it pretty easily:
I'm a rabid DIY electronics guy who was trained and raised on all things Radio Shack. Over time they lost their way but back then they were a magical gateway to going from "That's cool" to "I can build/modify that". Eventually I left them behind but love them for their influence on my life. ❤️❤️
December 2, 2024 at 5:23 PM
I'm a rabid DIY electronics guy who was trained and raised on all things Radio Shack. Over time they lost their way but back then they were a magical gateway to going from "That's cool" to "I can build/modify that". Eventually I left them behind but love them for their influence on my life. ❤️❤️
While you're busy fighting for what you know to be right against a wind of darkness trying to destroy it, do remember this:
You cannot effectively fight from a position of exhaustion. Make sure while you're fighting to exist, that you don't forget to live. Do the things you love. You can do both.
You cannot effectively fight from a position of exhaustion. Make sure while you're fighting to exist, that you don't forget to live. Do the things you love. You can do both.
November 27, 2024 at 2:39 PM
While you're busy fighting for what you know to be right against a wind of darkness trying to destroy it, do remember this:
You cannot effectively fight from a position of exhaustion. Make sure while you're fighting to exist, that you don't forget to live. Do the things you love. You can do both.
You cannot effectively fight from a position of exhaustion. Make sure while you're fighting to exist, that you don't forget to live. Do the things you love. You can do both.
Lol imagine strolling home after dark to see a cemetery full of cats sitting there watching another cat perched atop an angel meowing at them as if giving a speech. 🤣
This was quite good. Animation was particularly impressive.
Sandman - Dream of a Thousand Cats.
"It's really cute..." mrrow CHOMP!
This was quite good. Animation was particularly impressive.
Sandman - Dream of a Thousand Cats.
"It's really cute..." mrrow CHOMP!
November 27, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Lol imagine strolling home after dark to see a cemetery full of cats sitting there watching another cat perched atop an angel meowing at them as if giving a speech. 🤣
This was quite good. Animation was particularly impressive.
Sandman - Dream of a Thousand Cats.
"It's really cute..." mrrow CHOMP!
This was quite good. Animation was particularly impressive.
Sandman - Dream of a Thousand Cats.
"It's really cute..." mrrow CHOMP!
History WILL repeat itself in full. There will be a happy ending someday, just seems very unfortunate that people willingly placed themselves in an entire generation of misery just to find out what they needlessly, willingly forgot about how things work in the world.
November 26, 2024 at 6:29 PM
History WILL repeat itself in full. There will be a happy ending someday, just seems very unfortunate that people willingly placed themselves in an entire generation of misery just to find out what they needlessly, willingly forgot about how things work in the world.
I was a good boy today, fixed my car myself, and my body hurts. Time for the reward part of the day. As a rule I DO NOT DRINK because it makes me feel like absolute shit, but since this country prefers liver failure and dead brain cells over the sweet, non destructive happiness of MJ, here we are.
November 26, 2024 at 6:24 PM
I was a good boy today, fixed my car myself, and my body hurts. Time for the reward part of the day. As a rule I DO NOT DRINK because it makes me feel like absolute shit, but since this country prefers liver failure and dead brain cells over the sweet, non destructive happiness of MJ, here we are.
WAS an SI-8 Geiger tube I had been experimenting with some time back, just never changed the title like the lazy beyotch I so often am. Now it's an SBM-19 large sized research type tube most sensitive to Gammas and Betas. If ever Russia starts nuking shit, you'll see me posting this graph a lot.
November 26, 2024 at 6:04 PM
WAS an SI-8 Geiger tube I had been experimenting with some time back, just never changed the title like the lazy beyotch I so often am. Now it's an SBM-19 large sized research type tube most sensitive to Gammas and Betas. If ever Russia starts nuking shit, you'll see me posting this graph a lot.
The vertical is even more sensitive than the horizontal but that's impeded terribly by human made noise like AC units and refrigerators in my area. It has to be VERY quiet within 300 feet or it's a mess of mechanical vibration. I can near max this out by stomping 30 feet away from it in my driveway.
November 26, 2024 at 5:56 PM
The vertical is even more sensitive than the horizontal but that's impeded terribly by human made noise like AC units and refrigerators in my area. It has to be VERY quiet within 300 feet or it's a mess of mechanical vibration. I can near max this out by stomping 30 feet away from it in my driveway.
This is what I actually do for fun when I'm not attacking MAGATs like a rabid animal. This time of year when the ACs aren't running full time, my homemade seismograph can easily dig into faint earth tremors. This is mostly vehicle traffic in my region. It's VERY sensitive, picks up footsteps easily.
November 26, 2024 at 5:52 PM
This is what I actually do for fun when I'm not attacking MAGATs like a rabid animal. This time of year when the ACs aren't running full time, my homemade seismograph can easily dig into faint earth tremors. This is mostly vehicle traffic in my region. It's VERY sensitive, picks up footsteps easily.
Yayyyyy I finally got it done. I got a new-old Jeep Cherokee and within a week the window washers stopped working. Wasn't the nozzles, wasn't the tubing, motor was running, so I tore it down and found the intake screen grommet thing blocked with blue gunk. Took me about 2 1/2 hours total to fix.
November 26, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Yayyyyy I finally got it done. I got a new-old Jeep Cherokee and within a week the window washers stopped working. Wasn't the nozzles, wasn't the tubing, motor was running, so I tore it down and found the intake screen grommet thing blocked with blue gunk. Took me about 2 1/2 hours total to fix.
And so even though it took me till almost midnight I got it all back up and running. Clean install of Bookworm. Do the FTP server, do Samba, and finally do the Apache webserver. Set up FTP users. Copy old Samba and Apache configs and fix any broken links. *SET PERMS FOR PROPER ACCESS*. Not too bad.👍
November 26, 2024 at 5:21 PM
And so even though it took me till almost midnight I got it all back up and running. Clean install of Bookworm. Do the FTP server, do Samba, and finally do the Apache webserver. Set up FTP users. Copy old Samba and Apache configs and fix any broken links. *SET PERMS FOR PROPER ACCESS*. Not too bad.👍
Ok so of course the copy over didn't work, so we're on to a fresh build. This is going to be a long process but it will result in a newer, far cleaner web server. First step is to create the OS, and make sure it is accessible via remote admin (VNC). Then I can do all the subsequent work from my PC.
November 25, 2024 at 5:52 PM
Ok so of course the copy over didn't work, so we're on to a fresh build. This is going to be a long process but it will result in a newer, far cleaner web server. First step is to create the OS, and make sure it is accessible via remote admin (VNC). Then I can do all the subsequent work from my PC.
Also, as fortune would have it for once, my two new SD cards just arrived from Amazon. So now I can try to flash one of those with the image I made of the old bad card. It has all the files, it just won't boot. Maybe a copy-over will fix the entire thing. Fingers crossed, and... proceed!
November 25, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Also, as fortune would have it for once, my two new SD cards just arrived from Amazon. So now I can try to flash one of those with the image I made of the old bad card. It has all the files, it just won't boot. Maybe a copy-over will fix the entire thing. Fingers crossed, and... proceed!
Very important to not be surprised at the mountain of fails we just walked into here, but just WHY? Really?? We've given it god-like power over this SD card and it can't do a simple reformat? So, now we have to force a full reformat using Windows disk management.
November 25, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Very important to not be surprised at the mountain of fails we just walked into here, but just WHY? Really?? We've given it god-like power over this SD card and it can't do a simple reformat? So, now we have to force a full reformat using Windows disk management.
Tried to do the reinstall right from the networked Pi and of course it failed. SO we have to flash the memory card with the OS image using a PC. Nothing new here. Notice they recommend 64 bit. NO. 32 bit is what we want. Now we sit and wait like a stump for it to copy and be ready for the next step.
November 25, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Tried to do the reinstall right from the networked Pi and of course it failed. SO we have to flash the memory card with the OS image using a PC. Nothing new here. Notice they recommend 64 bit. NO. 32 bit is what we want. Now we sit and wait like a stump for it to copy and be ready for the next step.
So... Centralia, my beloved RPi webserver that hosts all my Earth-science graphs and my meteor cam has DIED. Full on SD card system fail. What do we do?? Do we collapse into a wet ball of fur and cry? FUCK NO! This is the military, son! Wipe off your snot and prepare to un-fuck yourself!
November 25, 2024 at 4:21 PM
So... Centralia, my beloved RPi webserver that hosts all my Earth-science graphs and my meteor cam has DIED. Full on SD card system fail. What do we do?? Do we collapse into a wet ball of fur and cry? FUCK NO! This is the military, son! Wipe off your snot and prepare to un-fuck yourself!
So, this one night I had an 8" Newt telescope set up in the driveway, circa 2005, trying to do astrophotos with a digital P&S on it. I was living in TN and it was a crystal clear, frigidly cold night. I looked up and something bizarre happened to me. I "felt" space above me, very suddenly.
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November 25, 2024 at 3:56 PM
So, this one night I had an 8" Newt telescope set up in the driveway, circa 2005, trying to do astrophotos with a digital P&S on it. I was living in TN and it was a crystal clear, frigidly cold night. I looked up and something bizarre happened to me. I "felt" space above me, very suddenly.
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What can it hurt. I look so different from this you'd be like "That's not you!" But alas, I was once a blondie kid looking reminiscent of Ralphie from Christmas Story. Long ago, far far away in a peaceful farm existence. That's my grandpa on my mom's side. WWII vet, I thought the world of that man.
November 25, 2024 at 1:42 AM
What can it hurt. I look so different from this you'd be like "That's not you!" But alas, I was once a blondie kid looking reminiscent of Ralphie from Christmas Story. Long ago, far far away in a peaceful farm existence. That's my grandpa on my mom's side. WWII vet, I thought the world of that man.
Fun fact: Venus is the only planet visible from Earth that can occasionally light up in a ring shape due to sunlight filtering through it's atmosphere. Also one of only two planets that exhibit phases (just like the moon) when seen from the Earth. The other is of course, Mercury.
November 25, 2024 at 1:17 AM
Fun fact: Venus is the only planet visible from Earth that can occasionally light up in a ring shape due to sunlight filtering through it's atmosphere. Also one of only two planets that exhibit phases (just like the moon) when seen from the Earth. The other is of course, Mercury.
I have started making my first block list. Note this is not intended to silence all righty-tighties as much as I would love to. It's for people that spend beyond 70% of their time trying to upset other users. It's for the trash, plain and simple. You don't like it, too bad. You love it, great!
November 21, 2024 at 2:02 AM
I have started making my first block list. Note this is not intended to silence all righty-tighties as much as I would love to. It's for people that spend beyond 70% of their time trying to upset other users. It's for the trash, plain and simple. You don't like it, too bad. You love it, great!