[wed 28/08/2002]
supposed to be working...
Just uploaded one of the first batch of pictures taken through Kathryn's
telescope with my digital camera.
See it at http://www.icculus.org/~luap/
For those who are interested, it was taken with a fuji finepix 4900,
through a 3.5" refractor (see the chromatic abberation?). 400mm focal
length, 2x Barlow and 25mm eyepiece gives 32x magnification...I think.
On an unrelated note, I saw Sum of all Fears at the cinema... the book
was way better, not least because it was long enough to include much more
detail. The other thing of course was that the book was a bit chilling,
and made you wonder about a lot of things: the american system of
government, the politics within intelligence agencies, and just how easy
it is to make a nuke. But Hollywood couldn't do that could they... so
they butchered the story, and left all the americans with a nice warm
fuzzy feeling at the end of the film.
Here endeth the rant.
[tues 20/08/2002]
6pm still at work. I'm not sure why.
Now fiddling with microcontrollers that have priorities associated with
interrupts. Me like.
[monday morning]
allworkandnoplaymakesjackadullboy
ho-hum.
Had a look at Mars through the telescope I bought for Kathryn on Saturday.
It was kind of like the moon, but looked smaller, and was reddish.
I'll take some piccies once I get some way of attaching one of my cameras
to the tescilope.
Elsethings... need to find my old 10mps hub that does bnc->utp conversion...
either that or find a reliable bnc network card, and stick it in a pc.
My webpages in shtml form are all on my HP PA-risc workstation, which is
good enough that it has on-board network, but old enough that its a choice
of AUI or BNC