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Didn't Majestic 12 assasinate President Kennedy for threatening to release this sort of information?

Dear Brian,
Thank You so much for cheering me up!

A very nice image indeed!

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Agreed! Come the next Carrington-scale event (and come it will) the Maesters will need to stock their new libraries

Hello Kay. In my opinion that HP laptop should perform well enough in imaging. Depending on how much imaging you do, you might find that more storage is useful - maybe a 1TB USB hard drive. I guess most people doing imaging and processing on the same computer would go for a quad-core processor, but ...

You know, as a boy I grew up with balsa-wood model aircraft kits (Kiel-Kraft I seem to remember). It makes me smile to imagine that in future we might see balsa-wood satellites in orbit . I imagine one basic problem with hardwood for satellites is the weight factor on launch?

Oh, right! It's so long since I joined the Forum that I've forgotten how that works

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Hi Steve and Welcome.
Not quite sure I follow your comment about cars and venus. Can you explain for others?

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SkyBrowser wrote: ↑Mon Dec 21, 2020 7:38 pm Ha, I think I have a way around it ... n aked-eye!

Well, do tell?

As I forecast on Dec 10th, tonight brings rain, drizzle and cloud a mile deep

I did get one or two snapshots over previous days but nothing as good as others have posted here so I'll leave it

I wonder what the censor will make of "n---d-ladies". These are flowers The scientific name Amaryllis belladonna means beautiful lady!

naked-ladies

Edit : so the result is nonsense.

A little levity to brighten up these dark times

Testing
I typed "n---d-eye"
and got
naked-eye

As the Sun set here a sheet of dark cloud moved just far enough into the SW to completely obscure the view. I fear this will be a rehearsal for the evening of the 21st

Hi Eddie, the colour looks about right on my screen. Nice image. (At this point I've noticed that the forum software is prompting me that the English spelling of "colour" is incorrect and wants me to use the US spelling :roll: ) Anyway, have you noticed how the Toucams are now relegated to...

Go on, rub it in why don't ya

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