Category Archives: Astronomy

The Origin of the Research University [Or development of Universities in the Western World in General]

Posted on July 12, 2025 by timlyg

by Clara Collier Here's my summary on this interesting article: The author, Clara Collier, sees these old universities as relic, contrasting research centers which were separate institutes from the universities at the time (pre-1800). Early modern universities have four traditional … Continue reading →

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Total Lunar Eclipse and Photography - March 13-14 2025, in South Amboy, NJ

Posted on March 7, 2025 by timlyg

The AAA free class on this was hosted by Stan Honda. Suggested website for tracking information is timeanddate.com. Stan know photography. So this is in anticipation of the coming Lunar Eclipse. Honda's suggested exposure setting: Telephoto zoom: focus on moonWide … Continue reading →

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Journal of the Week

Posted on November 25, 2024 by timlyg

11/29/2024 Received this reply from Sight & Sound after I requested more information of their DVDs. They may think they are righteous in their response, but this is the most daring immoral response I've ever received. I bolded the key … Continue reading →

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Aurora

Posted on November 11, 2024 by timlyg

Perhaps a good start is from this Aurora Guy: http://theauroraguy.com I've signed up for his AAA lecture next Monday (11/25).

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Journal of the Week

Posted on October 8, 2024 by timlyg

10/11/2024 This far, the uncensored AI Image Generator (no limits in terms of censorship, apparently since celebrities are even allowed to be generated), that I like is: https://www.basedlabs.ai/generate Apple Developer conferences now on Youtube accessible for everyone. Though I'm not … Continue reading →

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Journal of the Week

Posted on May 6, 2024 by timlyg

5/23/2024 Every time I hear news about attacks by the homeless in liberal states such as CA, incompetence in catch and release of criminals, victimizations of landlords, uncontrolled immigration, etc. I thought, these are major fails that Trump could have … Continue reading →

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Weekly-ish updates

Posted on June 2, 2023 by timlyg

Japan allowing copyrighted materials for A.I. training. This is interesting in that I have always stand against the whole world on this: That there is no such thing as intellectual properties. I just never thought of it coming from the … Continue reading →

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Learning Astrophotography

Posted on March 10, 2023 by timlyg

Stacking is a common terminology in this field. A good start for tutorial With the EVScope (purchased in March 2020 for around $3k with backpack), battery died due to long term abandonment (supposed to keep charge at most every two … Continue reading →

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All about Telescope

Posted on March 4, 2023 by timlyg

To learn about Focal Ratio, this is a good teacher: https://cloudbreakoptics.com/blogs/news/astrophotography-pixel-by-pixel-part-2 And the image below from the site is a good illustration of F-ratio vs. exposure. Basically, to take good quality image in astrophotography, you want to stay away from … Continue reading →

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Weekly Matters

Posted on March 3, 2023 by timlyg

3/7/2023 Fun interaction on Facebook on God and Logic. Basically I posted: There has been debate on this within Christendom no doubt and thus affected one's view on God's sovereignty, i.e. predestination vs. arminianism, various understanding of trinity, Christ's dual … Continue reading →

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