Archives for November 2005
Two Degrees pt II
Published on 15 Nov 2005 at 3:17 am.
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Filed under Images, Observation Log.
The clouds gave me little break after midnight and I was ready to go with the camera on the tripod with the telephoto attached. I took about 3 dozen pictures at different settings in order to have the best chance of getting the “money shot.” The reason I do this is because I’m framing and [...]
Flying the Space Shuttle
Published on 14 Nov 2005 at 9:28 pm.
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Filed under Thoughts & Ramblings.
I’ve been an avid user of X-Plane for a few years now (since version 5). X-Plane is the world’s most comprehensive, powerful flight simulator, and has the most realistic flight model available for personal computers.
Now I’d always known there were pre-programed scenarios in X-Plane where you could fly the space shuttle into Edwards [...]
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Two Degrees of Separation
Published on 14 Nov 2005 at 7:49 pm.
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Filed under Thoughts & Ramblings.
I realize this is kind of late but I just figured it out myself. I noticed last night that the Moon was overtaking Mars. Tonight, starting at about 11PM local time (transit is at 11:35 so it will be high in the sky for me) the Moon and Mars will only be separated by about [...]
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Mars Stereograms
Published on 4 Nov 2005 at 1:41 pm.
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As I was perusing the Mars Exploration Rover Mission homepage today and viewing some of the recent raw images from the Spirit Rover’s panoramic camera, it occured to me that I might make stereograms from these images. You can actually view these as stereograms right on the rover “Pan Cam” page (if you don’t mind [...]
