Vitamins and Supplements and the Science
THE SHORT STORY You don’t need any vitamins and supplements (with just a couple of exceptions) if you eat a decent diet. Anti-oxidants: already in fruits (berries) and veggies. Probiotics – eat yogurt....
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Kathy’s Family Favorites Cook Book
My beautiful and talented wife, Kathy Lecce Lodriguss, has published her first cook book! It’s called “Family Favorites“, and contains her best New Orleans Italian, Cajun and Creole recipes. This is...
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Hyakutake – The Great Comet of 1996 25th Anniversary
Twenty-Five years ago this week, Comet C1996 B2, Hyakutake, made its spectacular appearance. Click on the image or link to see more images with more information. Comet Hyakutake was discovered...
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Super Resolution Adobe Camera Raw Artificial Intelligence
The original image has been resized with BiLinear interpolation to 200 percent of its original size. The second image has been resized to 200 percent using ACR Super Resolution. More info on my web...
View ArticleTop 17 Astro Photo Tips and Techniques!
Astrophotography If you want to shoot something where you don’t have a lot of light, like a deep-sky object, just crank up the ISO, it makes the camera more sensitive. With today’s automatic-everything...
View ArticlePierre Simon Laplace
Very interesting webcast about Pierre Simon Laplace, an 18-th century mathematician whose work on probability was crucial to understanding celestial mechanics. He also devised the metric system, and...
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DeepSky with a Smart Phone
I’ve been experimenting with using my smart phone for astrophotography. Here’s M57, the Ring Nebula, shot with a Samsung Galaxy S10 using afocal projection through a TeleVue 18mm Radian eyepiece in an...
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Stellarvue SVA130T Astrographic Refractor Review
I’ve just published a review on my website of the Stellarvue SVA130T refractor, both for observing and astrophotography. Check it out! . . . . . .
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Star Trackers For Long Exposure Wide-Angle Astrophotography
I’ve just added an article on Star Trackers for long-exposure wide-angle astrophotography to my website. Check it out! . . . . .
View ArticleNew Astrophotography Sharpening Method
. . . . . Picture Instruments has developed a new method a sharpening for deep-sky images. . . . . .
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Smartphone Astrophotography – An Introduction to Photographing the Heavens
My latest book is out! It’s called Smartphone Astrophotography – An Introduction to Photographing the Heavens Check it out on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KT7KX9X/ #1 New Release in...
View ArticleTheta 1 Orionis – The Trapezium Multiple Star System
Here’s an article I wrote on the Trapezium – Theta 1 Orionis, but never published until now. This is the most amazing multiple star system in the sword of Orion. Theta can be seen with the naked eye,...
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The Jumping Jupiter Effect
A 30-second still image of Jupiter showing there was no real motion. TL;DR Eye microsaccades can make Jupiter and stars jump around if you stare at them intently for a long time (10 seconds or more)....
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Total Lunar Eclipse and the ISS
Seen through thin high clouds, minutes after totality begins for the Lunar Eclipse of November 8, 2022, the International Space Station leaves a light trail as it moves across the sky high in orbit...
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Airplanes and Galaxy M31
I was doing some mount tests for my new iOptron HEM15 mount last night from the driveway, testing and calibrating the autoguider. I just let the camera run continuous 30-second exposures just for the...
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Crescent Moon with Earthshine and Venus
I lucked out again this morning and got a shot of the Crescent Moon with Earthshine and Venus in conjunction. I’ve always been lucky. Shot this with my 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 Sony zoom on a Sony A7M3 on...
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Smart People on YouTube
With so much mis-information out there, I thought I would post some of my favorite sources of good science information on YouTube: Anton Petrov for current astronomy and physics news. He posts daily....
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Artificial Intelligence– Fasten Your Seatbelts, The Ride Starts Now
OpenAI created and released ChatGPT on November 30, 2022, apparently the world’s first successful large language model. Remember that date, because that is when the world changed profoundly, and you...
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Free $ Million Dollar Ideas
This image was created with “Cosmic Dream” an agent by Chat GPT that uses DALL-E. Here is the caption it created: “In this vivid scene, the sun’s golden rays dance around a man luxuriating in a sea of...
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Astrophotography Assistant Artificial Intelligence
. I just wrote a new GPT Artificial Intelligence called Astrophotography Assistant. Give it a try and let me know what you think. I think you need Gpt Plus....
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