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webcubus

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Astrophotographer, scuba diver, hockey fan, software engineer

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mhoye, to random
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This is a remarkable graph.

You might have heard that "EV sales are slumping", "people are starting to avoid EVs", etc.

That's not what's happening.

What's happening is "Tesla is cratering so hard that it's skewing the aggregate market data."

webcubus,
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@ShredderFeeder @mhoye it's fine if you don't want one or it doesn't suit your needs. You can just say that without suggesting EVs are bad for everyone.

Edent, (edited ) to random
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You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?
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webcubus,
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@Sbectol @simonwood @Edent this is it right here. If they're calling you out of the blue, hang up and call back using the number on your card. If they try to keep you on the phone, definitely hang up.

webcubus, to Philippines
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More bucket list creatures from Dumaguete! Flamboyant cuttlefish walk around the sea floor looking for small fish and crustaceans. When they find one, they slowly extend their two specialized feeding arms and snap out in the blink of an eye to grab their prey. A fellow diver and I spent 20 minutes with a single cuttlefish watching it walk and feed repeatedly. Video coming soon!

Prints: https://briangweber.com/collections/philippines

#cuttlefish #cephalopod #Philippines #Dumaguete #macrophotography #epic #colorful

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webcubus, to solar
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I wasn't planning to do any solar imaging yesterday, but I changed my mind once I saw what the sunspots were up to! That large sunspot region is cranking out solar flares at an impressive rate. Hopefully I'll get another chance to image on a clearer day before they disappear around the side.

Details: https://www.astrobin.com/0hpep5/

webcubus, to astrophotography
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This is the bright and beautiful Orion Nebula, located in the sword of the Orion constellation!

Prints: https://briangweber.com/featured/orion-nebula-in-rgb-brian-weber.html
Details: https://www.astrobin.com/fauler/

webcubus, to astrophotography
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Messier 13, also known as the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules, is approximately 25,000 light-years away and has a diameter of about 145 light-years. It is estimated to contain around 300,000 stars!

Prints: https://briangweber.com/featured/hercules-star-cluster-brian-weber.html
Details: https://www.astrobin.com/t2mtgm/

webcubus, to astrophotography
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As I was taking pictures of the sun, it occurred to me that the moon is about the same apparent size in the sky. So what the heck, why not take a few shots of the moon?

#moon #luna #astrophotography #craters #halfmoon

webcubus, to astrophotography
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Pretty interesting to see the changes in the sun from just a couple days ago. It's awfully easy to just grab 3 minutes of frames on the sun after a nighttime imaging session, so I'll keep them coming. I do need to figure out the proper orientation since my telescope is on an equatorial mount and rotated 90 degrees from that axis. I'll just keep it consistent so when I figure it out I can rotate the images.

2023-12-12 (best 10% out of 5000 frames)

webcubus, to astrophotography
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Big project alert! This image is an area in Cygnus containing both the North America nebula (big blue area) and the Pelican nebula (bump in the top middle). This area is rich in OIII, which gives it a nice blue color with certain processing. This is over 25h of total exposure time across the two panels of the mosaic.

Print: https://briangweber.com/featured/north-america-and-pelican-nebula-in-cygnus-brian-weber.html
Acquisition Details: https://www.astrobin.com/uevzok/B/

webcubus, to astrophotography
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Here's the final image from my star trailing session while waiting for the aurora last weekend. I'm going to make a point to try to do more of these!

Print: https://briangweber.com/featured/backyard-star-trails-brian-weber.html

#startrails #astrophotography #stars #space #circle #dslr #canon

webcubus, to Philippines
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Dumaguete Day #1 is in the books and wow did we have some awesome critters to kick things off. The stars today were the ribbon eels (we saw 3 on the middle dive), the many species of shrimp, crabs, and anemonefish covering every anemone, and the two species of mantis shrimp we spotted on the last dive.

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webcubus, (edited ) to astrophotography
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The dusty reflection nebula in this image is Messier 78, sometimes called "Casper the Friendly Ghost Nebula." The red wall on the left side is part of Barnard's Loop, which is a huge arc of bright red hydrogen gas. For this image, I combined 21 hours of broadband data with 9 hours of narrowband data to pop out the red color.

Details: https://www.astrobin.com/zskv4y/
Prints: https://briangweber.com/featured/messier-78-brian-weber.html

webcubus, to spiders
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This is a quick capture and stack of "The Spider and the Fly Nebula". I'm not sure this region is going to make my list of primary targets, but I filled some time before and after Orion over the last two nights to accrue 49 x 5 minute subs for a grand total of 4h5m. What do you think? Should I keep imaging it?

webcubus, to random
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PSA: If the sun is out where you are and you still have your eclipse glasses, put them on and take a look at the sun. There is a giant sunspot visible on the lower right side. I took pictures of it a couple days ago, but it's still wild to see it with my own eyes.

Also, if you live in the northern latitudes, there's a chance for some strong aurora activity tonight. If it's clear, I'll be pointing my camera north to see if I can get anything!

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-viewline-tonight-and-tomorrow-night-experimental

webcubus, to astrophotography
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This is a weird one. The Crescent Nebula's shape comes from a fast-moving wave of emissions from a high-energy star colliding with a slower-moving wave of emissions from that same star earlier in its lifecycle. Whoa! The result is this weird brain shape wrapped in a nearly translucent blue oxygen shell.

Details: https://www.astrobin.com/9wy7bn/
Prints: https://briangweber.com/featured/crescent-nebula-brian-weber.html

webcubus, to Philippines
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My favorite subject of the day was this pink-eared mantis shrimp. I spent probably 20 minutes with this little shrimp between visits at the beginning and end of the dive.

webcubus, to astrophotography
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From the constellation that brought you Orion Nebula and Horsehead Nebula, here is Monkey Head Nebula!

This is one example where I can see where it got its name - I see the profile of perhaps an orangutan (an ape, but close enough?) gazing off the left side of the image.

Prints: https://briangweber.com/featured/monkey-head-nebula-brian-weber.html
Details: https://www.astrobin.com/om2bz2/

webcubus, to space
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I bring you the colorful Pelican Nebula! I got a little funky with the color palette for the first image, performing narrowband normalization first to boost the blue oxygen color and then applying the Foraxx palette to bring out the oranges and reds rather than gold like the second image.

Print: https://briangweber.com/featured/pelican-nebula-brian-weber.html
Details: https://www.astrobin.com/s7fe5n/

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webcubus, to astrophotography
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This is my first attempt at a meteor shower composite! I stuck my DSLR outside with a 14mm lens on and let it run for several hours capturing 12 second exposures and then waiting 20 seconds. I'm going to try again tonight shooting continuously on a higher ISO and really focusing my exposures on the peak meteor time between 1 and 2am.

#geminids #astrophotography #wideangle #meteorshower #composite #nightsky #stars #pleaides #orion

webcubus, to space
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Work in Progress! This is the beautiful Helix Nebula, sometimes referred to as the "Eye of God". This is the only planetary nebula I can reasonably capture with my widefield scope. It is very low in the night sky, rising to only 27 degrees above the horizon from my location but I was able to get almost 4 hours on it. I will add more time over the next month to bring out the finer details. Off to a great start!

webcubus, (edited ) to astrophotography
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This is NGC 4565, commonly referred to as Needle Galaxy. Finding targets during Galaxy Season (spring) is challenging with widefield scopes like mine, but sometimes it's fun to charge ahead with interesting objects and see what I can do.

Prints: https://briangweber.com/featured/needle-galaxy-brian-weber.html
Details: https://www.astrobin.com/lcuhbf/

webcubus, to astrophotography
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This is another weird one. Much like the Bubble Nebula, Thor's Helmet nebula formed around a highly energetic Wolf Rayet star but has more interesting patterns swirling out from it. My scope doesn't have quite enough reach to do it justice, but by cropping in, drizzling, and using tools like BlurXterminator, I can manage a decent image.

Prints: https://briangweber.com/featured/thors-helmet-nebula-brian-weber.html
Details: https://www.astrobin.com/qk60h7/

webcubus, to astrophotography
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This is a two panel mosaic of Flaming Star and Tadpole nebula stitched together in PixInsight and presented in the Foraxx color palette.

Details: https://www.astrobin.com/cxexqw/
Prints: https://briangweber.com/featured/flaming-star-and-tadpole-nebulas-brian-weber.html

webcubus, to photography
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Did your latest import cause Lightroom CC to keep crashing on you? Well, that happened to me yesterday but I managed to fix it!

https://blog.briangweber.com/2024-05-28-lightroom-cc-fix/

#photography #lightroom #adobe #fix

webcubus, to girlyposting
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We have a lovely selection of tulips in our garden, so it's always fun to capture them in different ways. I managed to catch this one with water clinging to it before the sun burned it off.

https://briangweber.com/featured/dew-covered-tulip-brian-weber.html

#tulip #garden #bokeh #olympus #pink #dew #waterdrops #photography

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