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Best iPhone ISO and Exposure Settings for Moon Phases

September 1, 2024 Paul 1018 Views 0 Comments

This is a general guide to iPhone camera settings when taking pictures of the Moon. It covers recommended settings at each Moon phase.

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53% Waxing Gibbous Moon, April 2024

June 22, 2024 Paul 1198 Views 0 Comments

I was able to photograph the Moon on back-to-back days this April. You can compare the 43% Moon to the 53% version 24 hours later.

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43% Waxing Crescent Moon, April 2024

May 10, 2024 Paul 1190 Views 0 Comments

More testing and trials of my new Celestron 9.25″ telescope, this time against the 43% illuminated Crescent Moon.

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Someone Had to Blab to the World About AI and Now We All Pay the Price

April 29, 2024 Paul 683 Views 0 Comments

In today’s article, I pause and reflect on what AI has been over the past year and a half since the introduction of ChatGPT. Has this “new” AI improved your life? Do you see the benefits to yourself and to society? And I look back at my own attempt to build an AI interface for my website.

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Why I Prefer Watching the PGA Tour over LIV Golf Explained with Two Screen Captures

April 28, 2024 Paul 644 Views 0 Comments

I prefer watching the PGA Tour over LIV golf. In today’s article I showcase visually a key difference between their presentation formats. One is a garbled puzzle and the other is simple and inviting to watch.

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Synology Active Backup for Business: How to Create Encrypted Backups

April 27, 2024 Paul 2094 Views 0 Comments

Synology’s Active Backup for Business is an amazing tool to backup your devices. But if you want to encrypt and compress your backups, you must take a few steps on your own, which I explain in this article.

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My Last Solar Eclipse Article

April 16, 2024 Paul 736 Views 0 Comments

I recap my experience photographing the 2024 North America Solar Eclipse, along with discussing some of the challenges, and reflect on the next eclipse in 20 years.

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New Telescope! Tested on the 23% Moon

April 13, 2024 Paul 731 Views 0 Comments

This image of the 23% Waxing Crescent Moon is the first taken and posted with my new telescope, a Celestron NexStar Evolution 9.25″ Schmidt-Cassegrain. Optics worked perfectly, and auto-tracking was flawless.

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Life After Eclipse: 2% Waxing Crescent Moon

April 10, 2024 Paul 548 Views 0 Comments

In case you have not heard, there was a solar eclipse earlier this week. But on the day after, the Moon started its next cycle, and I captured this extremely thin and jagged crescent.

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Life and Leisure

A Totally Awesome Retro “In Game Event”

March 23, 2024 Paul 860 Views 0 Comments

Join Scotty and June, our favorite virtual e-sports broadcast team, as they guide us through the fast-pace high-stakes action of The Finals.

Oh, and there is a pretty neat alien invasion I want to talk about as well!

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