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Adjusting the Moon

ask560@dinarius.com — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:52:31 GMT

Photographing the Moon through a telescope on a shoestring budget requires some post. My choice is GIMP. After a month-long chase, I didn’t care how polished the framing or results of any Moon pictures through a telescope came out, I just wanted to see the damn thing! What starts out flat can be processed quite simply to reveal a ‘world’ of silvers and grays from just a fat sliver on the histogram.

Photo by Dana Kee

Taking pictures through a telescope

ask560@dinarius.com — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:27:34 GMT

There’s lots of ways to get frustrated. I find adjusting telescope lenses and trying to shoot photographs through them to be a winner. It takes a sick amount of familiarity and having hacked a 6-inch Newtonian together in about 72 hours, I’m a lot more familiar with other things. So I thought I’d practice in the daytime to cut my teeth a little.

Strangely Festive [2]

ask560@dinarius.com — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:15:18 GMT

With over a hundred thousand likes and 22MILLION views in two months between two “official” videos, MIA (sometimes MAYA) has shown that our overall willingness to disagree unconditionally with the Middle East is in a state of exhaustion. A Western-style culture of bling and money rides shotgun in car rodeo style racing basically owned by Saudi Arabian youth. Rather than the video acting as a lightning rod for criticism and negativity as the director was worried, Western youth, are mesmerized by this strangely festive display of tricks, play and cultural twists that just says, “shit’s fun. Let’s party!”

I'd love it if you came [1]

ask560@dinarius.com — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 19:58:27 GMT

I’ve been rushing through some ideas to bring a little art to science and science to art in what I’m calling, the Exposition of Light. It’s a gallery show at Chloe’s Coffee Bar and Gallery in Maryland. Naturally, I’d love it if you came!

I don’t know much about these Meet The Artist nights, but I frequent the tiny, little Coffee Bar…

Best Free way to open tar.gz on Windows

ask560@dinarius.com — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 23:11:34 GMT

“Best?” I don’t know for sure. “Free,” yup. Users of Windows 7 have a sticky time opening tarball files or tar.gz packages that are often provided for coding purposes and more advanced computing than Windows users are given credit for wanting to attempt. Well I wanted to and it seemed that all the unzip, unpack software leads to cost. Well…