Next Sunday Chat and Other Announcements
Added 2023-01-12 18:13:09 +0000 UTCNext Sunday Chat
Nebula Photos Sunday Chat #21 will take place this Sunday, January 15th, 2023 at 19:00 UTC (7pm UK, 2pm EST, 11am PST) on Zoom, and run for about an hour.
It will be an open Q&A and discussion on any astrophotography-related topics with no set agenda. We will start with any beginner questions and questions from new members before getting in to more advanced questions and discussions.
The session will be recorded, and the recording will be posted here on Patreon within a day or two after the chat. Here is the Zoom Link for joining on Sunday:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85650350077?pwd=dHdOUjZBdWVFejYrTk4vaXQ2c3Q1Zz09
Other Announcements
Last week I ran a survey to see if we should change the time for the Sunday Chat. The poll confirmed that the time we have been holding the Sunday Chat was the most popular time. That said, I got some good suggestions in the survey and on discord about offering occasional Zoom sessions at different times for people that can't make it to the regular one. I will also work to offer some themed sessions - more on this soon.
I have a new video out today in my series on capturing star trails images. This one covers how to capture them with any Android phone: https://youtu.be/Vcj3uhy0NHw
There is still plenty of time to enter the processing challenge with the data pictured above over on the Nebula Photos Discord. Anyone who submits an image this month can choose to enter a random draw to win an Antlia ALP-T 2" filter. I've heard that this data is challenging for several reasons. One of those reasons was the files are very large which slows down processing. The reason they were so large is the data was 2x drizzled which makes the files 4x bigger (2x in both vertical and horizontal). I've made new versions that are downsampled by 2x back to the original resolution. Those are available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ikQhR-C2HN1MdiK89GA44mw0ER-uE-QQ?usp=sharing and should be much faster to download and process.
Cheers, Nico
