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Offline Setekh

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Desktop Thread - November 2003
Reply #20 on: November 19, 2003, 04:01:02 am
This is a shot I took of the roof of the hall where I had my high school formal (think prom... man am I sick of saying that). :)
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Desktop Thread - November 2003
Reply #21 on: November 19, 2003, 05:25:20 am
I'm quite proud of my desktop, as it is a photo I took a few weeks ago. If any of you recall the lunar eclipse we had on the night of the 8th-9th of this month? Anyway, I was able to see it quite excellently from our balcony. But even with the 4x zoom on my camera, the moon just came out tiny. Then I remembered we had a very nice pair of binoculars with an adjustable 7x-20x zoom factor. ;7

So I set up the binoculars on the ledge around our balcony, propped up on some wooden blocks my brother helpfully brought out, and aligned it with TEH MOON!!12 Then it was "just" a matter of getting the digital camera positioned to see through the binocs, zooming with the camera as much as possible, and then zooming in the rest of the way with the binoc. Turned out that I couldn't get a good focus with them both at full zoom, though, so I had the camera at 2x and the binocs at around 15x.

SNAP! :D

The only processing I did after the picture was taken was to bring out the stars, which had gotten flooded out of the picture by the brightness of the moon.

So without further ado, I present to you The Partially Eclispsed Moon:

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Offline Setekh

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Desktop Thread - November 2003
Reply #22 on: November 19, 2003, 05:29:31 am
Dude, that's quite impressive - no postwork on the Moon! It really looks good. :)
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Desktop Thread - November 2003
Reply #23 on: November 19, 2003, 05:48:19 am
I agree, could we have the original? :)
 

Offline Setekh

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Reply #24 on: November 19, 2003, 05:58:17 am
All 5 megapixels of it? ;)
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Reply #25 on: November 19, 2003, 06:00:01 am
Sure, just a sec...
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"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #26 on: November 19, 2003, 06:10:51 am
Sit back kids, and prepare yourselves for...

High-res!!
 

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Reply #27 on: November 19, 2003, 06:13:43 am
lol


Original pic #1, cropped, no post-processing.
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline Turnsky

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Desktop Thread - November 2003
Reply #28 on: November 19, 2003, 06:14:04 am
*puts ADSL modem in a freezer*
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Desktop Thread - November 2003
Reply #29 on: November 19, 2003, 06:15:20 am
And Original Pic #2, a 3-second exposure to bring out the shadowed part of the moon.
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"...The quintessential quality of our age is that of dreams coming true. Just think of it. For centuries we have dreamt of flying; recently we made that come true: we have always hankered for speed; now we have speeds greater than we can stand: we wanted to speak to far parts of the Earth; we can: we wanted to explore the sea bottom; we have: and so  on, and so on: and, too, we wanted the power to smash our enemies utterly; we have it. If we had truly wanted peace, we should have had that as well. But true peace has never been one of the genuine dreams - we have got little further than preaching against war in order to appease our consciences. The truly wishful dreams, the many-minded dreams are now irresistible - they become facts." - 'The Outward Urge' by John Wyndham

"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

Offline Gloriano

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Reply #30 on: November 19, 2003, 06:57:45 am


i using until i find better or make one;)
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Desktop Thread - November 2003
Reply #31 on: November 19, 2003, 06:59:17 am
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Offline Taristin

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Desktop Thread - November 2003
Reply #32 on: November 20, 2003, 08:54:36 pm
Well, I'm hella-late for this, and it's a bump, but...

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Offline Knight Templar

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Desktop Thread - November 2003
Reply #33 on: November 20, 2003, 08:58:39 pm
Careful there trigger fingers.. :p
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Offline Taristin

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Reply #34 on: November 20, 2003, 09:13:21 pm
I made sure not to show details... only 2 turrets are scarecly visible... :p
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Offline StratComm

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Desktop Thread - November 2003
Reply #35 on: November 20, 2003, 09:14:13 pm
So that's what happened to that ship.  It was made but then dissapeared, and I was wondering where it had gone.
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Reply #36 on: November 20, 2003, 09:16:11 pm
I textured it, and put on turrets, but the turrets are giving me grief. They don't work, and are ignored in FRED... Don't know why...
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Reply #37 on: November 20, 2003, 10:35:52 pm
Are they set up properly and named to match your entries in the tables?  I could probably debug it in 10 minutes tops if you like.
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Offline JC Denton

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Desktop Thread - November 2003
Reply #38 on: November 20, 2003, 11:44:13 pm
"I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will -- and a hell of a lot of money in the bargain. Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all. For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain."  - Gene Roddenberry

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Reply #39 on: November 21, 2003, 11:43:33 am
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Are they set up properly and named to match your entries in the tables?  I could probably debug it in 10 minutes tops if you like.


They are... and you'd have to ask KT if you can... It's not for my mod...
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