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<iximeow>
UmbralRaptop: do you know of any work modeling atmospheric distortion as experienced by, say, an observatory, over a wide field? (like ~0.1deg by ~0.1deg)
* iximeow
learned today speckle imaging is typically used in regions closer to.. single digit arcsec square
<UmbralRaptop>
iximeow: short term turbulence, as opposed to just generic refraction?
<iximeow>
yeah
<UmbralRaptop>
iximeow: multiple star adaptive optics would be a guess, but I don't know many details.
<iximeow>
i'm loosely wondering if turbulence across the field could be generalized from what's measured from individual stars, but i don't know enough to know how workable that is
<iximeow>
ah hm
<UmbralRaptop>
Hrm. I'm boy sure in general what the FOV limitations are with actual or laser guide stars.
<iximeow>
s/boy/not/?
<UmbralRaptop>
correct
* UmbralRaptop
🔪 📱
<UmbralRaptop>
I guess my phone has decided my gender?
<iximeow>
gender reveal party 2k18
<UmbralRaptop>
please don't ask why the party needs so much lithium deuteride.
<iximeow>
fusing the genders would make you incomparably powerful.... 🤔
<UmbralRaptop>
egg|zzz|egg: does anbocat now understand double precision floating point?
<egg|zzz|egg>
possibly
<egg|zzz|egg>
it should probably read Dekker too
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<bofh>
egg|cell|egg: bonne année 2019 and all that
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: you should zzz
<bofh>
egg|zzz|egg: with the New Horizons flyby in 6 hours and also people in EST I want to wish a happy new year? hell no, not yet.
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: well precisely, you want to be awake by the time the data comes back, not when it flies by in the BCRS
<egg|zzz|egg>
and you really need to zzz
<bofh>
I did earlier for a bit, at this point I don't think I even can given the stimulant cocktail I took.
<bofh>
Plus, like, let me enjoy my new year damnit, I've had a stressful past few days and I'm hoping tomorrow isn't going to be a repeat.
<iximeow>
why not be awake during flyby *and* when the data comes back?
<kmath>
<elakdawalla> Bennu has a center-of-mass, center-of-figure offset. That means it's not homogeneous inside -- its mass is distribu… https://t.co/mozmbvKho7
<kmath>
<jeff_foust> After that singalong, Walter Alvarez, of K-T boundary fame, is speaking about impact science. This is quite the New… https://t.co/ldnMLJBsup
<kmath>
<jtuttlekeane> #UltimaFlyby accomplished! @NewHorizons2015 just flew past #UltimaThule to ring in 2019! New images will arrive tod… https://t.co/hPyuxok720
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<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: UmbralRaptop: so how is new horizons doing
<egg|zzz|egg>
and when do we get signal
<UmbralRaptop>
egg|zzz|egg: I think the first data (in some form) is in ~90 minutes?
<kmath>
<✔PlanetDr> You can always tell if a spacecraft is up to something important by how many DSN antennas it is using... 😮… https://t.co/roB0oyRcPT
<bofh>
oh right I mis-decremented things, you're right
<bofh>
also rofl I will never stop laughing when one of the New Horizons PIs makes a reference to 'PEPSSI'
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: ESPRESSO SSERVI is weird
<bofh>
Yeah, I was mixing up failsafe 2 and NYT 1, but NYT 1 data isn't set to downlink for another few hours anyhow.
<egg|zzz|egg>
yeah we haven't had phone home yet
<bofh>
also huh, Val-de-Grâce is a military hospital.
<bofh>
that eggsplains the barbed wire
<bofh>
(no I did not try to wander into the grounds, just walked along Blvd. de Port-Royal this morning and was baffled as to why I saw barbed wire at what I understood to be a hospital)
<egg|anbo|egg>
whitequark: what happened to _whitenotifier?
<egg|anbo|egg>
whitequark: ah, whitequark is down?
<egg|anbo|egg>
but _whitelogger is fine
* egg|anbo|egg
pets _whitelogger
* egg|zzz|egg
meows at bofh
* egg|zzz|egg
pets a cat
* bofh
fills out calendar for January
<bofh>
scheduling!
<SnoopJeDi>
I am timidly trying the same
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: yay
<bofh>
also: re: this year: I'm going to be in FR for VDD and for Fête des Lumières, and in DE for Congress. That's the most I can promise, and quite possibly the first of those only if I can get JB to pay for flights (exceedingly likely)
<bofh>
Otherwise there's sadly going to be much less running around everywhere.
<kmath>
<PKtje> After seeing the first #NewHorizons photos of #NASA MU69 'Ultima Thule' it was time for a pancake version (also; I… https://t.co/HdL0m8UVae
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: mho!
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh: old-style Siemens
<egg|zzz|egg>
bofh fills out calendar for January << uh it looks to be filled with periodic paris stuff
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<egg|anbo|egg>
bofh: also, catpics,
<bofh>
point
<bofh>
also let me pet the furry house demons
<egg|anbo|egg>
bofh: also your calendar still looks the same? /me is confused
<bofh>
egg|anbo|egg: yeah it's not updating for some reason, give me a sec.
<SnoopJeDi>
bofh, I misunderstood your calendaring earlier, you're just laying out January?
<bofh>
SnoopJeDi: yeah, just laying out what I know I need to do and what is in my schedule for Jan.
<bofh>
(some of that repeats until May, like courses).
<SnoopJeDi>
ah. I'm not usually a heavy scheduling person, but I'm going to try planning out as many of my regular events as possible in the interest of freeing up mental bandwidth
<SnoopJeDi>
so I can stop thinking "what am I doing tonight" and just look at The Plan
<bofh>
I mean I have the opposite problem, at least in Paris, tho it exists in general
<SnoopJeDi>
yea, wildly different contexts
<bofh>
the answer to "what am I doing tonight" is "any of, like, Five things, three of which I want to do and one of which I actually need to do and those two sets are not always coincident"
<SnoopJeDi>
I definitely want to still leave room for the cognitive mechanical bull ride
<SnoopJeDi>
with the hope that it's more fulfilling if the Important Things are on autopilot
<bofh>
Yeah, my problems tend to be a bit weird compared to others'.
<bofh>
I guess the way of putting it is being on meds means I actually have an attention span, but, like, in a way I'm still fundamentally ADHD
<bofh>
so it just means I can actually follow thru with my distractions, which is nice
<bofh>
but also it's been getting to the point where I need to learn to actually not immediately agree to every single thing that sounds cool
<bofh>
which is hard and, well, not going to lie, I feel really bad every time I turn down an invitation to do something neat or cut a conversation short or whatnot
<SnoopJeDi>
that one strikes me as fairly common, although the way in which everyone experiences it may be unique?
<SnoopJeDi>
as you well know, I'm still getting my head around all of it :/
<bofh>
but I need to figure out how much I can do that for, last year was me going as far as I could in one direction