So just over 18 months before I got married and moved to New Mexico, this blog started up. Previously I'd been blogging with friends on a site called Network 54, IIRC, but they started falling apart and we did pretty much a mass migration here. Then seven years ago, the servers moved to Russia, and I moved my primary posting point to DW with the ( Read more... )

These are untouched negative scans, I haven't had time to do any work in Photoshop on 'em yet. My next purchase for that camera will be a red filter and a polarizer! Somewhere I have a 77mm polarizer, I think, but I'm not sure where it is right now...

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Back on my birthday last month, I went out to White Sands with two new - to me - cameras. A Mamiya RB67 film camera, and a Canon 5DS 50 megapixel DSLR. Today I got the scans from my film back! And here's one of the photos ( Read more... )

Russet worked the nights of the 24th and 25th, last night we had a big dinner at the observatory. Because of a snow fall and no weather warm enough to melt it, telescope close conditions were really tight and the telescope was closed most of the night because of snow on top of the dome ( Read more... )

Another big one.

Speaking of big: Russia's biggest mortar visits Ukraine - briefly, Russia sells government property in Berlin without knowing it, Mariupol falls, don't we all tape GPS receivers to our fighter jets?

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This is too big to sit on, especially if it comes to fruition soon ( Read more... )

This is a long one, I should have split it but had a busy week.

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It hasn't been a slow news week, more like a week slow in the news that I wanted to write about. Just not enough for two postings, plus I needed to expand on some of the items.

More on the Moskva, more anti-air missile tanks, balloons, sheer stupidity, and other stuff
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We had another power outage yesterday, or I would have made my intended Thursday post. I got busy with other things and it didn't happen.

Within: Donbas fighting begins, debt defaults, Russian QAnon, and tennis not happening.

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I'm going to try to post these twice a week, Monday and Thursday, so they don't get too long.

BoJo gets banned, the significance of the loss of the Moskva, José Andrés gets bombed, and a steak house in Kentucky?!

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