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by blazingice
Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:25 pm
Forum: Coffee corner
Topic: introduction
Replies: 29
Views: 14962

well, i think that to be able to have enough stamina to mug astro for a long time, one needs to have a great interest in astronomy itself. and after whatever competitions there are, and knowing much more about astro (due to mugging or whatever), one will certainly be much more appreciative of the sk...
by blazingice
Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:21 pm
Forum: Astrophotography
Topic: need help with adobe photoshop!
Replies: 21
Views: 11448

Cool. That's much better than the original one you posted - can see much more although it looks somewhat blur. How long was the exposure for this photo?
by blazingice
Sun Jul 18, 2004 2:14 am
Forum: Coffee corner
Topic: Astro Theories
Replies: 14
Views: 8699

Remember, if you look at the sky offen, who knows that one day you might get a chance to spot a SuperNova "explode" in front of your eyes... dream on... :lol: :lol: Well, since this is theories thread.. THEORETICALLY you may be able to see supernova explosion. According to old estimates i...
by blazingice
Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:54 am
Forum: Astrophotography
Topic: need help with adobe photoshop!
Replies: 21
Views: 11448

Anyway, just to comment, i.m.o. I think that it's not easy to use Photoshop to work with images with so little contrast. For any image, in general the higher the contrast of the picture, the easier it will be to work with the image. That's because when the contrast is higher, the boundaries of objec...
by blazingice
Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:50 am
Forum: Astrophotography
Topic: Uploaded: Venus Transit movie
Replies: 3
Views: 2879

Hi there, I tried to download the video, but it gave me a 'dlparent.shtml.html' file instead...I did right-click and save target as. I'm using Opera. [update] Tried with IE, it worked this time. I agree, it's really shaky, and the seeing isn't good. It's nice, though, to be able to see the clip of t...
by blazingice
Sun Jul 18, 2004 1:37 am
Forum: Coffee corner
Topic: introduction
Replies: 29
Views: 14962

yep response can be trained by playing snap...it's effective to some extent, but the effect 'wears' off after a period of time... i agree, but i think that winning will depend on experience too. e.g. if you've been participating in competitions for four years, and someone else has much less experien...