Post your random pics!

[Nutball]

Great pics Gabe. I've been starting into the astro photography stuff too, but with the most basic stuff I have. I'm hoping to save up for the cheapest 8" tracking scope I can find, I think the orion xt8i or something like that.

Otherwise Jupiter at its closest is about the best we can hope for since you can get otherworldy moons! Here's my Jupiter pic with an old 6MP 12x zoom camera:

Anyway, while I'm here, here's some pics of a soldering failure I had today. I was trying to tin the flat bottom contacts on this tiny 3x1x.5mm SMD LED when it crushed. I was holding it in tweezers, but maybe they can't handle much pressure at soldering temps. They're designed for very specific reflow solder conditions, not normal iron use. I was hoping to wire up a brighter light for my macro photography. It might be impossible if this keeps up.

There's an interesting mesh behind the wires inside. Maybe it's a reflector, or part of the wiring?

And check out that giant piece of dust on my camera sensor. Now I know to use a vacuum to clean the lens and not duster air spray that blows dust behind the lens.

 

[DashApple]

looks like a part of the electrical connection .

 

[Nutball]

Testing out my new 28mm macro coupled lens by taking a pic of a 1kP (kilopixel) camera sensor.

 

[RB astro]

Thought I'd try and catch a wave or two.... RB style... with my drone....

 

[ArcticDude]

Hey nice shot RB!! :beer:

EDIT
We are having never ending winter.. Even more snow to come :can:

 

[RB astro]

Brrr....
Looks just like a really slow moving wave Tero.
:wave:

 

[CurtisOliver]

Wow, Tero. That's a lot of snow. Makes what we've seen in the UK lately look petty...like most of the time.

 

[diachi]

Wow, Tero. That's a lot of snow. Makes what we've seen in the UK lately look petty...like most of the time.

That's probably all the snow that has fallen since ~November, if the weather is anything like it is here. We're at -25C this morning. :scowl:

 

[CurtisOliver]

We keep warming up and getting siberian weather at the moment. They are predicting us to get yet another system over Easter. The jet stream is all over the place.
-25C is not fun. I don't envy you.

 

[paul1598419]

I remember living in Montana, the snow never melted until late spring as the temperature never got above freezing there. By the time spring rolled around there were drifts and snow stacked from plowing so high it took a month just to melt it all.

 

[CurtisOliver]

That's insane. Glad we never get anything like that here. We'd have no transport for months.

 

[ArcticDude]

That's insane. Glad we never get anything like that here. We'd have no transport for months.

This is current situation over here ATM, just to give an idea of amount of snow.. And more is coming tomorrow.. :crackup:

 

[CurtisOliver]

Wow! That's a lot of snow.

We've had it like this three times since the end of February, which for southern england it is the most days of heavy snow we've had for years. And we're expecting more again in a couple of weeks. It's all coming from your way. Keep it there. :na:

 

[paul1598419]

This is current situation over here ATM, just to give an idea of amount of snow.. And more is coming tomorrow.. :crackup:

Man, that takes me back. I have seen this kind of snow many times. There was a year in Denver when we got a blizzard that shut everything down for three days. I shoveled half my driveway and it took me fours hours to do it. Still couldn't get out as the streets were not plowed, just the main streets. Nobody I knew when anywhere for three days. It was fortunate that we still had heat and lights.

 

[RB astro]

I just can't imagine it guys.
I would love to see it one time but I think, as you say, it really is a pain once you get over the initial thrill of seeing so much snow.

Brrr... (but send me some). :crackup:

 

[ArcticDude]

I just can't imagine it guys.
I would love to see it one time but I think, as you say, it really is a pain once you get over the initial thrill of seeing so much snow.

Brrr... (but send me some). :crackup:

WTF = Welcome to Finland

I guess my other neighbor is going to wait till summer.. :crackup: