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Dec 25, 2020 14:49:30   #
f8lee wrote:
Nice. I shot this with my Fuji X-T4 and 100-400 lens plus 2X TC, and this is a crop of about 25% - so I'd guesstimate the FF equivalent of a 5000 MM lens. But a single shot - I was surprised at how you can even see the dim dots of two of Jupiter's moons

I must say that after all the folderol I was surprised at how far apart the two planets looked - I was expecting them to be righ ton top of each other (so to speak).


Nice shots! To my naked eye the two planets always looked distinct and separate. But without the sensor I never would have seen the moons. You captured 4 of Jupiter's moons on the 21st!
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Dec 23, 2020 21:52:59   #
Ballard wrote:
Hi MichaelH
Nice shot. I used the video capability of my canon DSLR to get multiple images for stacking the conjunction. I've posted the shots and info for them at
https://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-678596-1.html


Yes, I had seen your post before I posted my images. Your images were much better and after seeing your images I tried to get some images with less exposure on Jupiter in the hope of seeing some atmosphere color.

I was barely able to discern Saturn's rings and I think four of Jupiter's moons. I think I will need a bigger sensor and a longer lens.

But I should try 4k video and see what the results are. Thanks for the comment.
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Dec 20, 2020 17:54:28   #
I used about 5 shots at .5sec @ f/6.3 stacked for Saturn and Jupiter separately. I aligned the layers using Free Transform in Photoshop and use Median Stack Mode. The lens was a Lumix 100-400 at 400mm.


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Nov 24, 2020 21:17:07   #
The export from Canon's DPP is much better than the one above it. Check out a one to one on the close up rock face in the last image (lower left corner) compared to the one to one of the corresponding image above.

I think the clue is in the size indicated on the uploaded images. The first batch seem to be odd sizes as if they were resized (poorly).
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Jun 26, 2020 22:14:30   #
It is something you set up but then forget.

Click on the Apple in the upper left. Open System Preferences. Open the Users applet. Click on the Login Options in the lower left - you will need your admin password. Then in the upper part of this pane you can now set up the Mac to automatically log in as a particular user.

And then forget it until the next time you need to restore your computer!
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Mar 24, 2020 19:05:20   #
jerryc41 wrote:
Unfortunately, that doesn't work. I turned on one drive and named it X. I turned that drive off, turned on the other one, and named that X. When I backed up one of them with SyncBack, it worked fine. Turning on the other drive, it showed up as G, the next available name.

That is because X was taken when you assigned it to the X drive. You can only have one drive assigned to each letter and the letter will be assigned to only the last drive that it was assigned to.

Give each unique drive its own unique letter. Do not assign the same letter to two different drives. That is what I meant to say. If each drive has its OWN letter and you do not assign the SAME letter to two (or more) drives you will not have any problems.

If you want to do the exact same backup to two or more drives just duplicate the profile and rename it with the correct UNIQUE drive letter and change it so that it is pointing to the correct UNIQUE drive letter (that is not shared with any other drive).

On your system you have 19 letters after G to use!

And the simple way to duplicate you profile is to right click on it and choose Copy and give it an appropriate name.


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Mar 24, 2020 14:21:06   #
Quick solution: give each drive its own letter. Start with M and go to V, that gives you 10 drive letters. Then whenever you attach any of these drives they will always have the same letter. You are making this harder than it has to be. But you are learning the limits of using letters for drives as Windows does.

If you were using a Mac operating system you could name all of your hard drives "Hard Drive" and when you attach them they will show up on your desktop as "Hard Drive", "Hard Drive 1" , "Hard Drive 2" and so on in the order that they are mounted. It is the just the way things work and you have to accept it.

On my PC I have an SD card reader on my Dell monitor. I gave that one the letter Z so it would sort last in the list. Then for my SyncBack setup I have given my external drives letters starting backwards from Z. So one is X, the next is Y, the next is W and the forth is V. And for SyncBack Profiles I have included the drive letter in their names so that I know which one to run as I connect the drives.
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Mar 22, 2020 15:55:54   #
Architect1776 wrote:
Why do you all libs have to be so hateful and negative?
You are way too stupid to discuss anything intelligently.
Libs make morons and dirt clods look like geniuses.
Trying to show the negative nellies that this is not anywhere as bad as the H1N1 of 2009 -2010.
Far fewer deaths and most all recover who catch the virus and death rate in the world is statistically irrelevant.
Quit being such haters and jerks.
Accept that no thinking people are panicked and see the positive of John Hopkins numbers that YOU did not even bother looking at.
Why do you all libs have to be so hateful and nega... (show quote)


I did look at the link you provided. Maybe you did too. But you did not understand it. I will repeat my main point that you did not read.

The world is four months into this coronavirus pandemic and has 14,366 deaths. Four months into the 2009 H1N1 flu the world had 332 deaths. We are very much at the beginning of this epidemic.

These are very different numbers. (11,201 was from 3/21/2020 if that is why you thought I did not read your link.) And I guess it might be important to point out that most of the coronavirus deaths will be in addition to the flu deaths.

I am not trying to be a jerk. I am just pointing out I have a different opinion than you do.
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Mar 22, 2020 13:44:56   #
Architect1776 wrote:
Here is information from the respected John Hopkins University on the Corona Virus.
It is excellent news when you consider a world population of 7.8 billion and from that only .0002% of the world population have died from this virus.
Global hunger kills .1% of the population by comparison (9,000,000 annually).

This is very good news for the world.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html


There are some obvious errors in your analysis.

First is your comparison to death by global hunger/starvation: China and most other areas that are being hard hit by this coronavirus are locking down most of their citizens - a huge and costly undertaking. If that level of expense and commitment was applied to global hunger not a single person would die from hunger.

Second you are comparing a full year of death by hunger (with very little effort being applied to alleviate it) with a quarter of a year of coronavirus (with huge measures and cost being applied to alleviate it).

Another comparison often made is the one between the flu and coronavirus. This is another bad comparison. We know that the usual flu kills .1% of those who get it. And many of us do not get the flu because we get the flu vaccine. There is no coronavirus vaccine and many models show that without somewhat draconian social distancing measures up to 50% or more of us could get this virus. And we also know that this coronavirus is as easily transmitted as the flu. We also know that its killing rate is between 1% and 2%.

So if we go with the low death rate of 1% and only 10% of the human population is ultimately infected because we do nothing to stop it from spreading that gets us to a count of 7,800,000 dead people. That is almost 8 million people.

A more fair comparison would be to the 2009 H1N1 flu that you mentioned. We are four months into this coronavirus pandemic and have 11,201 deaths. Four months into the 2009 H1Ni flu we had 332 deaths.

Just like "Bunko T.", I do not want to be one of those unlucky enough to die from this.
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Mar 18, 2020 01:52:25   #
Sorry but so much of this post seems self contradictory.

If it can only survive for 10 minutes on your hands what would be the point of washing your hands frequently - does that mean every minute, every 2 minutes? In ten minutes it is dead according to this post.

If it can survive on your hands for only 10 minutes wouldn't that mean it could only survive on the rest of your body for 10 minutes? So what would be the point of exposing yourself to the sun unless the reason was to increase your vitamin D level?

And if it can live on other surfaces and fabric for 12 hours or more (which scientists do agree with) why would it die in ten minutes on human hands?

I could only find references to the size of other human coronaviruses and they are all in the range of 100 to 125 nanometers not 400-500 nanometers.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/01/coronavirus-surgical-masks-china.html

As for the sipping water every 15 minutes claim, read this Snopes page:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/drinking-water-prevent-coronavirus/

And here is a site debunking the 10 second test - already mentioned by others here:
https://apnews.com/afs:Content:8635070312

And the main reason to not believe all of the claims made in this post is that if these claims were true they would be on the CDC coronavirus pages:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/prepare/prevention.html


What we do know is that washing your hands with soap and water will kill it and that is because it's outer shell is made of protein and lipids (fats) and fats are broken up by soapy water. Be safe.
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Mar 15, 2020 16:47:48   #
Muddyvalley wrote:
Yes, and this shows why age doesn't matter & everyone should self isolate to end this as soon as possible.


And sadly, in all of these simulations the group "Recovered" includes the ones who die from exposure to the virus because not everyone recovers. That is something to think about especially if you are in the highest risk group of the elderly with pre-existing conditions. The young otherwise healthy people can sometimes not even know they are sick.

If you are in a high risk group you should try to do "extreme social distancing"! I am right at the lower edge of the high risk level. The Surgeon General stated that 60 and older are at high risk and the average age of those who die from this are 80 years old. Be safe.
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Mar 9, 2020 15:06:50   #
If you always use the same closet for the camera gear and bags you will be able to find it. For some level of security and short time span fire protection a gun safe would work. For organizing your gear check out this Pelican case I got from B&H on sale for $120:

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1502562-REG/pelican_vcv550_0040_blk_v550_vault_case_with.html
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Mar 8, 2020 10:13:15   #
jerryc41 wrote:
You've probably heard that hand sanitizer is basically unavailable. Fortunately, we have plenty on hand in the house. Of course, we also have soap and water, so we don't use that much sanitizer. From what I've heard, using soap and water is the preferred method of washing your hands. I'm sure we've all seen people leaving a rest room without washing their hands and also those who give their hands a quick rinse, rather than actually washing them.

Another important practice is keeping your hands away from your face. Of course, all these precautions assume that you have dangerous bacteria on your hands. Good luck staying healthy, everyone!

As for the shortage of hand sanitizer, make your own.

https://upnorthlive.com/news/local/diy-how-to-make-your-own-hand-sanitizer
You've probably heard that hand sanitizer is basic... (show quote)


Since we are discussing restroom habits {and I did not start this conversation} - if you are touching a part of your body that can potentially transmit disease to another person you should wash your hands before touching that part of your body as your hands will have the potential to transmit disease to you and after touching that part of your body as your hands will have the potential to transmit disease to others.

Taking this to another body part - wash your hands before picking your teeth with your fingers and after picking your teeth! The first hand washing is for your health and the second hand washing is for others' health.
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Mar 5, 2020 11:24:42   #
JerryOSF wrote:
Finding the 'G spot' can be very tricky, or so I've been told. I use linux, don't use drive letters. Mac OS is derived from linux.


Mac OS X and Linux are both based on Unix which was developed at Bell Labs in the 1970s.

'Linux began in 1991 as a personal project by Finnish student Linus Torvalds' (wikipedia) and 'macOS is based on the Unix operating system and on technologies developed between 1985 and 1997 at NeXT, a company that Apple co-founder Steve Jobs created after leaving Apple in 1985' (wikipedia).
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Mar 4, 2020 08:37:59   #
Longshadow wrote:
Is this Permanent permanent of only valid for the current boot session, being cleared upon re-boot?


It is "permanent" unless Windows needs that drive letter or you have assigned it to multiple drives. So if you make "X" your SD card reader and "Y" your 4Tb external HD you still can still add enough drives to use up the whole alphabet and not be able to mount those as their "permanent" letters. Start towards the end of the alphabet and you should be able to think of them as "permanent".
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