egg|nomz|egg changed the topic of #kspacademia to: https://gist.github.com/pdn4kd/164b9b85435d87afbec0c3a7e69d3e6d | Dogs are cats. Spiders are cat interferometers. | Космизм сегодня! | Document well, for tomorrow you may get mauled by a ネコバス. | <UmbralRaptor> egg|nomz|egg: generally if your eyes are dewing over, that's not the weather. | <ferram4> I shall beat my problems to death with an engineer.
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<kmath>
<DSLauretta> Here it is - the first image of Bennu. This milestone is incredibly important to the @OSIRISREx team. Let the scien… https://t.co/rp0xlxxRXh
<kmath>
<emsque> This is spectacular. It hit a ~33/33/33 split at about 50 votes and after that the categories just alternated inchi… https://t.co/ZJaYMLaGQF
<kmath>
<emsque> Me ususally: "Astronomy is great and fun and I love writing about it!" ⏎ ⏎ Me when I try to write anything coherent ab… https://t.co/x9KxqmqXGe
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<whitequark>
UmbralRaptor: no thats acetate
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<UmbralRaptor>
gah
<UmbralRaptor>
whitequark: okay, so aside from the mercury death, it's more or less normal?
<UmbralRaptor>
B787_300: magnitudes are bad in far more ways than just that.
<whitequark>
UmbralRaptor: yeah I don't entirely get what the problem is apart from the organic mercury
<UmbralRaptor>
Aldo something about lots of bromine in one step, but I get the impression that the heavy halogens don't hate you the way fluorine and chlorine do?
<UmbralRaptor>
*also
<UmbralRaptor>
B787_300: notably, try converting between magnitudes and janskys anywhere outside of V-band.
<B787_300>
Haha no
<UmbralRaptor>
That's definitely the safest response
<kmath>
<whitequark> Hey so I need bromine but it only comes in 100mL and 3L containers and the vendor is all out of 100mL ones ⏎ send me… https://t.co/qtY4ca1MxX
<egg|laptop|egg>
bofh: btw did you ever figure out why that wtf pdf was so weird
<egg|laptop|egg>
the one with the orbits
<egg|laptop|egg>
D: http://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~pbarfuss/ This site is unavailable August 19th to 30th, 2018 due to a planned power outage affecting Computer Science Club equipment.
<egg|laptop|egg>
ah right, it was "lol drawing smooth circles w/cubic beziérs"
<egg|laptop|egg>
#kspacademia.log:161028:Jan 03 03:43:20 <bofh> I am adding this to my collection of pdfs to use for testing pdf renderers, it's actually pretty nasty and saves/restores graphic state a *ton*
<egg|laptop|egg>
!pet whitequark
* Qboid
pets whitequark
<egg|laptop|egg>
!pet bofh
* Qboid
pets bofh
<egg|laptop|egg>
bofh: the pull request descriptions are getting a bit odd #1910
<UmbralRaptor>
"These are the forms that I submitted. You had 17 transferable credits (graduate courses with grades B or higher). This information should show up on your DegreeWorks page in a few months."
<UmbralRaptor>
months?
<egg|anbo|egg>
UmbralRaptor: are the credits computed on an analytic engine, or is it just a pascaline,
<UmbralRaptor>
pascaline?
* UmbralRaptor
assumes an analytic engine powered by a hamster.
<UmbralRaptop>
It's weird getting textbooks on libgen, because they suggest also searching in fiction and Russian fiction sections.
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<egg|laptop|egg>
bofh: UmbralRaptop: going to try doing some observation tonight
<iximeow>
me too!
<egg|laptop|egg>
hm, I need warmer clothes
<iximeow>
moon bright though :(
<egg|laptop|egg>
iximeow: yeah the stupid skycircle is hovering ominously
<UmbralRaptop>
iximeow, egg|anbo|egg: VLBI!
<iximeow>
VLBI?
<Qboid>
iximeow: [VLBI] => Very Long Baseline Interferometry
<egg|laptop|egg>
>_>
<egg|laptop|egg>
<_<
<iximeow>
ha
<egg|laptop|egg>
bofh: btw I am trying a new setup with the finder and main scope side-by-side, because things got badly balanced with the large finder + large eyepiece
<UmbralRaptop>
Optical interferometry: so easy that maybe half a dozen examples have been built.
<egg|laptop|egg>
in its current configuration I'm back to being able to track aeroplanes
<UmbralRaptop>
egg|laptop|egg: adjustable counterweights or scope position possible?
<egg|laptop|egg>
UmbralRaptop: with the side-by-side dovetail there are far more degrees of freedom
<UmbralRaptop>
ah
<egg|laptop|egg>
the giant finder slightly off to the side would unbalance things in ways that could not be compensated by along-optical-path telescope offsets, and the giant eyepiece meant that I wound up at one end of the range of motion anyway
<egg|laptop|egg>
also hm I need warmer clothes
<UmbralRaptop>
RTGs?
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<B787_300>
egg|cell|egg: I did see that yesterday
<egg|laptop|egg>
hmmmm high altitude clouds
<egg|laptop|egg>
!choose stabbity | it's not so bad
<Qboid>
egg|laptop|egg: Your options are: stabbity, it's not so bad. My choice: it's not so bad
<egg|laptop|egg>
;choose stabbity | it's not so bad
<kmath>
egg|laptop|egg: it's not so bad
<UmbralRaptop>
bad bots!
<B787_300>
egg|laptop|egg: the French really do have weird laws or customs... it was annoying as hell to have an English announcement then a French announcement on the plane
<egg|laptop|egg>
B787_300: you should try a zurich-paris flight, that way you'd get French, German, and English
<egg|laptop|egg>
not sure what's weird about that tbh, all international flights I've been on had the languages of either end + english
<egg|laptop|egg>
SVO-SGN on Aeroflot isn't exactly french
<UmbralRaptop>
Wouldn't you also get lots of French for flights to/from airports starting with a Y?
<egg|laptop|egg>
!wpn bofh
* Qboid
gives bofh a hafnium bijective inverter
<egg|laptop|egg>
!wpn whitequark
* Qboid
gives whitequark a wave Sumerian tree
<B787_300>
egg|laptop|egg: when I flew to Belize they didnt do english/Spanish only English... when I flew to saint Martin (princess juliana airport) only English
<egg|laptop|egg>
that I find odd
<egg|laptop|egg>
I've always heard the source and destination languages on international flights
<egg|laptop|egg>
B787_300: belize makes sense, English is the official language there
<B787_300>
egg|laptop|egg: tell that to the people there
<egg|laptop|egg>
B787_300: being the official language doesn't mean that it's the language everyone speaks, it means it's the official language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize#Languages
<egg|laptop|egg>
ohai ISS
<egg|laptop|egg>
too many clouds though, I think I'm going back in
<egg|cell|egg>
Why are there fireworks
<iximeow>
ISS!
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<egg|laptop|egg>
ok so the tracking isn't great, also the alignment algorithm is shit
<iximeow>
egg|laptop|egg: mount?
<egg|laptop|egg>
losmandy GM8
<egg|laptop|egg>
but I didn't set up any guide scope or periodic error correction or anything
<egg|laptop|egg>
however since I went with 10 s eggsposures this should be fine, eggscept SIPS sees alignment stars in the noise
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<iximeow>
that's one of the reasons i've been stuck manually aligning in paint.net for now :/
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<egg|laptop|egg>
iximeow: paint can handle FITS files?
<egg|laptop|egg>
iximeow: how do guide scopes work
<bofh>
egg|laptop|egg: yeah, kinda figured the overly large finder'd pose problems :/
<egg|laptop|egg>
bofh: yeah but with the side-by-side setup it works
<egg|laptop|egg>
it would probably need a sliding counterweight when switching from the giant eyepiece to the saner ones for really good balance but meh
<bofh>
side-by-side, so, on separate mounts or on the same mount?
<Qboid>
UmbralRaptop: I haven't seen the user snoopjedi yet.
<UmbralRaptop>
=|
<egg|laptop|egg>
;seen snoopjedi
<kmath>
egg|laptop|egg: snoopjedi (snoopjedi!~SnoopJeDi@155.94.239.122) was last seen quitting in somewhere at 2018-08-04 05:52:51 +0000
<egg|laptop|egg>
;seen fiora
<kmath>
egg|laptop|egg: fiora (fiora!~Fiora@ec2-54-82-190-77.compute-1.amazonaws.com) was last seen quitting in somewhere at 2018-07-12 18:59:41 +0000
<egg|laptop|egg>
;seen norgg
<kmath>
egg|laptop|egg: norgg (norgg!~norgg@norgg.org) was last seen quitting in somewhere at 2018-04-02 14:42:52 +0000
<egg|laptop|egg>
;seen bitrotripbot
<kmath>
egg|laptop|egg: bitrotripbot (bitrotripbot!~bitrotrip@ks3317550.kimsufi.com) was last seen posting in #bottorture at 2017-06-25 20:05:18 +0000
<egg|laptop|egg>
!wpn whitequark, UmbralRaptop, bofh, et al.
* Qboid
gives whitequark, UmbralRaptop, bofh, et al. a gzip'd polynomial
<iximeow>
egg|laptop|egg: i'm not sure about feedback from guide scopes to telescope controllers, but it's about what it looks like - wider field image where you pick a star of interest, and that's active feedback to adjust for slight misalignment, imperfect mount, etc
* UmbralRaptop
trolls the polynomial through tar
<UmbralRaptop>
s/tr/r/
<Qboid>
UmbralRaptop meant to say: /me rolls the polynomial through tar
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