xylophilist

xylophilist, 4 months ago to RadioControl

Big scenery, cracking symmetrical reflection and bonus little misty fog patches in Glencoe and Ballachulish

#drone #photography #scotland #glencoe #highlands #landscapephotography #naturephotography

xylophilist, 4 months ago to astrophotography

M44, the Beehive Cluster

One of the nearest open clusters to Earth, containing approximately 1,000 stars, M44 is visible as a small nebulous object under dark skies. It has been known since ancient times and was studied by Galileo.

#astrophotography #photography #beehive #cluster #M44 #stars #nightsky

xylophilist, 5 months ago to astrophotography

The Perseus molecular cloud is a giant molecular cloud located approximately 1000 light-years away in the constellation of Perseus. It comprises gas and dust weighing over 10,000 solar masses in an area of sky 6 by 2 degrees.

The gas-cloud is nearly invisible except for two clusters, IC 348 and NGC 1333, where low-mass stars are formed.

Available as prints, cards, masks and more via the website: https://shiny.photo/photo/Perseus-Molecular-Cloud-7dd67bcb735962934a17c698bfa81c8b

#astrophotography #photography #space #nightsky #nebula #darknebula

xylophilist, 5 months ago to astrophotography

Just bought RC Astro's BlurXTerminator plugin for PixInsight.

This is a comparatively cheapo SkyWatcher 80ED with lousy "flattener" maladjusted, near the far-left middle edge of the frame, before and after running BlurXTerminator.
I had to check twice I was still comparing the same section of the frame, it's that radical an improvement.

It sure lives up to the hype and then some 😀

#astrophotography #photo #stars #nightsky #geek #win

xylophilist, 5 months ago to RadioControl

And now for something different - exploring the Borders.
I found the exact spot the River Clyde starts as a confluence of a couple of other smaller rivers from the south at the appropriately named Watermeetings.

#drone #photography #scotland #scottishborders #RiverClyde #hdr

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nixCraft, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Poll: We have three major browser engines: Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Chromium/Google Chrome and its clones. Out of the three major web browsers, how many are currently installed on your system? Please boost for reach.

xylophilist, 5 months ago to RadioControl

Boxing Day sunset, Uath Lochans, near Aviemore in the Cairngorms

#winter #sunset #drone #photography #scotland #landscape #light

xylophilist, 5 months ago to Scotland

Brief but good aurora display this evening. Caught a few rays (2218hr).

#perthshire #aurora #auroraborealis #scotland #photography #NightPhotography #nightsky

xylophilist, 6 months ago to internet

About 4 years ago I was struggling to get 12Mbit/s ADSL. Now we have gigabit fibre and oh my word am I using it tonight.

One browser is uploading a 50GiB video to YT while another browser uploads the 20GiB equivalent to FB. The same wee macbook air is also rendering artwork for a future video thumbnail with Stable Diffusion as well. And another workstation is downloading Arch linux updates at 5-10MiB/s.

All at once.

#geek #win #internet #connectivity #art #ai #poweruser

xylophilist, 6 months ago to Scotland

2012-12-01 This evening's Aurora

Taken at Windyedge - the other tree in Perthshire ;) - at 2235hr as the aurora was beginning to fade again.

#aurora #auroraborealis #perthshire #scotland #naturephotography #landscapephotography #photography #astrophotography

xylophilist, 6 months ago to edinburgh

Aurora, Edinburgh

Sometimes you just gotta sit on a bench beside the Observatory, eating fish & chips from a favoured chippy (Stefano's on Morningside Road) in a chilly -1ºC under light of a full moon whilst watching the remains of an aurora display as Orion rises.

#aurora #auroraborealis #edinburgh #scotland #NightPhotography #nightsky #photography #vertorama

xylophilist, 7 months ago to Scotland

This is one massive aurora display on the go. Too much cloud in the wrong places to be seeing any red but it was right overhead and down into the southern side of the sky... Just wow.

#aurora #auroraborealis #perthshire #scotland #nightsky #photography

JustineSmithies, 7 months ago to FreeBSD

Sitting patiently whilst Julie re dyes my hair aka regingering reading about #FreeBSD of all things. I've read about the differences between #Linux and #BSD and now I'm onto the ports system and OMG I'm nearly tempted to give it a whirl on my trusty old test laptop. :freebsd:
How many folk have if any have switched from Linux to BSD and if you have please tell me why and what you prefer over the former ?

PS I'm a #VoidLinux user

Please share for a greater response ❤️

https://www.freebsd.org/

xylophilist, 7 months ago to random

Very good to meet @withaveeay IRL in #Assynt today. I can confirm that he's not a bot, and hope he confirms I'm not a bot. Unless we're both bots, in which case, we would both say that, wouldn't we....?

#🤖 😁

A wonderful day of light, landscape, photos, nattering, philosophy and much sociability. Zonked now but chill :)

Beautiful warm sunlight and crepuscular rays behind Suilven
Beautiful oblique light on Manse Loch
Former corn mill, Port na Bradhan, Assynt

nixCraft, 7 months ago to random

Who has the fastest internet? Are you living here? How fast is your internet connection?

xylophilist, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to astrophotography

M33, the Triangulum Galaxy

A spiral galaxy located approximately 2.73 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Triangulum, M33 aka the Triangulum Galaxy has a diameter of 18.74 kiloparsecs (61,100 light-years).

It forms the third galaxy in the Local Group - including the Milky Way and Andromeda of which the M33 is a satellite.

Prints available via the website: https://shiny.photo/photo/M33--the-Triangulum-Galaxy-8f211d545bc1a7f4caaadab8a31687c6

#astrophotography #astronomy #galaxy #space #DSO #stars #photography

xylophilist, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to Scotland

Photos of the flooding at Potarch in Aberdeenshire, taken on Sunday afternoon.

The Dee had burst its banks and was flowing fast, wide and turbulent - I've never heard such awesome loud deep booming and roaring noises as from the Potarch Bridge.

#aberdeenshire #scotland #flood #photos #drone #naturephotography #River #rain #weather

/cc @UndisScot