Cocoon Nebula (IC5146)
2024.10.24 @ 22:00
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The Cocoon Nebula, also known as IC5146, is a fascinating emission and reflection nebula located about 3,300 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. This nebula is a stellar nursery where new stars are forming, with a bright central star that illuminates the surrounding gas and dust, giving the nebula its soft, cocoon-like appearance. The Cocoon is linked to a dark nebula, a dense, starless region called Barnard 168, which stretches out like a trail behind it, obscuring the background stars.

The Cocoon Nebula sits in one of the Milky Way’s richest star fields, so it's dark trail and glowing cloud stand out even more against a sea of distant stars.

Setup:
C8-XLT + f/6.3 reducer @ 1208mm focal length
iOptron mount, tracking
Ares-C Pro camera
Optolong L-Pro filter
SharpCap Pro & Siril

Total exposure time: 8 hours
Processing: mediocre

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As one of my co-workers quipped "They're not getting any malware now!"

@EddieJennings said in OUR NEW VIDEO IS LIVE!!!!:

It's clear a non-trivial amount of effort went into making that. Opening and closing reminded me of some Karlheinz Stockhausen music I heard during undergrad.

That's actually an improvised synth piece done by the singer, using a little pocket device that's smaller than a cell phone. And I definitely need to check out some Karlheinz Stockhausen. Thanks for watching!

A couple of years ago, we discovered that AT&T geoblocks all VOIP traffic from India. We sent some configured phones to them, because the bosses were told by AT&T that it would work fine. Nope. All the tracert results clearly showed them dropping the traffic. But then a few months ago, it started working! The India team emailed me asking to change out the names/extensions, and since then we've had no problems.

@EddieJennings said in I can't even:

This thread, https://access.redhat.com/discussions/669573, likely requires a Red Hat account to view, but it wins the necro post award.

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The last relevant comment was in October 2011. Here's the latest comment nearly 12 years later 😛

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You should log in and post this:

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1.1.6 released today.

Youtube Video

Search on YouTube for
First We Feast or Hot Ones
Interviews while eating hot wings from mild to needing assistance.
They show each kind of sauce they use - 10 for each episode.
I personally liked the interviews with Matt Damon and Jimmy Kimmel.

@CCWTech said in More toxic clients / people:

It's so weird, especially after learning other cultures now that I don't live in the USA to watch how people act in the USA.

Such entitlement. It's nuts.

Yeah, you rarely get that same weird entitled attitude anywhere else.

You can't make this up. New Zealand has to run a campaign to help teens handle breakups?

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/23/asia/new-zealand-love-better-campaign-teens-intl-hnk/index.html

@ITivan80 said in Who speaks other languages?:

I am bilingual English/Spanish. I was trying to learn Russian the other day

Since the time that this thread was originally posted, I learned Italian and then Spanish. I've mostly lost the Italian, but I speak Spanish every day now.

@krzykat said in What did you have for lunch or dinner today?:

@scottalanmiller What makes nachos breakfast nachos ?

Eggs

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@Obsolesce said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

based on the word voxel is the world completely buildable and detroyable?

Not in the same way Teardown is, (another awesome game by the way), but you can build/destroy.

@JaredBusch said in Gaming - What's everyone playing / hosting / looking to play:

based on the word tycoon is it a sim?

Yes, along the lines of a Sim City type game, but more fun.

I had time later and looked at the steam store. looks interesting.

I actually had it in my Steam wishlist for like a year or something. I had constantly ignored it because the name doesn't do it justice, and never really bothered to look much. I had added it back when I was playing more Teardown and searched for other voxel based games out of curiosity. I wish I would have looked at it closer a long time ago.

@travisdh1 said in Weekend Plans:

I just got a ticket for Ohio Linux Fest. I'll only be able to attend Saturday, but looks like some interesting things happening.

https://olfconference.org/ if anyone else is interested.

Well, after the conference, I think it's time to give tower another look. A lot has changed, and it should be stable now.