UmbralRaptor 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. | We can haz pdf
<iximeow>
well that wasn't the most fun i've ever had
<galois>
title: [2010.07817] A stringent upper limit of the PH$_3$ abundance at the cloud top of Venus
<SnoopJ>
!how much
<galois>
SnoopJ: 452
<whitequark>
!why
<galois>
whitequark: because reasons
<whitequark>
lmao
<iximeow>
!how much
<galois>
iximeow: 174
<iximeow>
!how many
<galois>
iximeow: 733
<iximeow>
!how come
<galois>
iximeow: 387 comes
<iximeow>
oh
<raptop>
l*wd
<raptop>
!how many candels
<galois>
raptop: 47 candels
<raptop>
candles?
<raptop>
!how many spends
<galois>
raptop: 179 spends
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<raptop_>
!choose you were seeing things|Yes, you saw an albedo feature on Mars with a smol scope
<galois>
raptop_: Your options: you were seeing things, "Yes, you saw an albedo feature on Mars with a smol scope". My choice: Yes, you saw an albedo feature on Mars with a smol scope
<galois>
egg|laptop|egg: Your options: sleep, don’t. My choice: don’t
<egg|laptop|egg>
hm.
<egg|laptop|egg>
;choose sleep|don’t
<egg|laptop|egg>
still no kmath
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<iximeow>
today i get to investigate an unexpected problem
<iximeow>
why did a picture two weeks ago with the same gain/offset/exposure come out significantly differently than a picture from today with the same gain/offset/exposure
<whitequark>
didnt' you clean the scope
<raptop_>
Different seeing and/or transparency?
<raptop_>
Shooting at wavelengths where airmass matters a lot
<raptop_>
SCP-1960-J got in the way?
<iximeow>
whitequark: that was in response to this quandry, and i've now ruled out "schmoo on the corrector plate" as a source of problem
<iximeow>
raptop_: how sensitive is 656.28nm? either way, i'm more suspicious of my software than physics, here
<whitequark>
ohh
<raptop_>
iximeow: hrm, that shouldn't be sensitive to much
<iximeow>
(the star is moving w.r.t the sensor so barring a simple external explanation i'm going to assume it's error introduced by my wildly improper imaging train)
<raptop_>
The spike is extremely conufsing given that you don't have a spider
<raptop_>
I mean, there could be something with alignment