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| spacer | Date: Sunday, 07.08.2016, 21:44 | Message # 1006 |
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| Quote midtskogen (  ) "More rainy than normal" means "a normal summer"
it really rainy so much in the summer? man that sucks.
you have -30c and ice in the winter and in the summer rain and thunders?
where is the sunny days!! 
summer in scandinavia acording to you is like a normal winter here 
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| Watsisname | Date: Sunday, 07.08.2016, 22:04 | Message # 1007 |
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| Quote spacer ( ) did you noticed any change in the glacial ice in your region throught the years?
like its decreasing?
It's generally known around here that our glaciers are retreating, but I haven't been in the area long enough to see firsthand. So I googled for older images of the glacier and found this one on wikipedia from 2003 (taken almost the same day of year), also containing the extent line drawn in for 1985. I overlaid them in GIMP -- it's not perfect since the lenses are different, but you can see it is definitely still retreating. And getting thinner.
We're lucky here in that our climate is strongly moderated by the Pacific, and so is slow to respond to the warming climate. But in another 50-100 years this area will be very different. How different can it get? Well, ~55 million years ago, during the peak of the Paleocene-Eocene thermal maximum, it was tropical here. It is possible to find fossilized palm leaves in the local rock formations from that era. And that's roughly the same climate state we're heading towards now by the end of the century.
midtskogen, neat! I'd love to see a twister or waterspout like that someday. From a safe distance... 
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Quote midtskogen ( ) the waterspout is over the fjord at the left side, but only visible with some imagination...
Is this it? Did a couple sharpening passes, looks like the funnel standing out. Or it looks a lot like the photos in the article at least!
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| midtskogen | Date: Monday, 08.08.2016, 07:25 | Message # 1008 |
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| Yes, this is the one (and it kind of looks like another one was close to forming just left of it):
But it's viewed from a distance of 12 km through a fullframe fisheye lens. Actually, such a twister is in some ways the reason why I have these cameras. In 2002 I happened to look out of the window one morning and I saw one in roughly the same place. I looked at it for a minute or so, then I ran to fetch my camera, but just as I was getting the camera ready, it dissolved. That made me figure out a way to hook up a digital camera to a computer to record the view (I still have an archive going back to 2003), and later that evolved into the meteor camera network.
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| anonymousgamer | Date: Monday, 08.08.2016, 13:01 | Message # 1009 |
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| Watsisname, I worked on it on and off for a few days, finding different ways to exploit different effects to get the desired end result. Most of my time was spent tweaking particle systems and making the lighting very flashy and complex.
Desktop: FX-8350 4.0 GHz, 8 GB DDR3 RAM, EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FTW 8 GB, 2 TB HDD, 24 inch 1920x1080 screen
Laptop: Core i5 480M 2.66 GHz (turbo 2.93), 8 GB DDR3 RAM, AMD Radeon HD 6550m 1 GB, 640 GB HDD, 17.3 inch 1600x900 screen
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| Hanakofuroshira | Date: Monday, 08.08.2016, 23:26 | Message # 1010 |
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| I like to make NES palette pictures of aliens I believe inhabit the planets I find in Space Engine. Sorry if the attached picture seems NSFW, it's not intentional.
I also make music, but I think I'm still rather amateurish because of my young age.
https://musescore.com/user/38407/scores/2484256
This is my second attempt at a concert ensemble and I think it turned out fine.
Fluent in music, math, Solresol, and hopefully someday, astronomy.
Edited by Hanakofuroshira - Monday, 08.08.2016, 23:27 |
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| Watsisname | Date: Thursday, 11.08.2016, 08:24 | Message # 1011 |
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| Booyah -- the strongest green flash I've ever seen. The cloud had just the right curvature to fit a wide, thin arc of the sun. Almost like Baily's Beads in a solar eclipse.
Weak teaser flash on the top of the upper layer.
The main event on the lower layer.
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| DoctorOfSpace | Date: Thursday, 11.08.2016, 08:36 | Message # 1012 |
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| Quote Watsisname ( ) Booyah -- the strongest green flash I've ever seen
Absolutely superb shot 
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| midtskogen | Date: Thursday, 11.08.2016, 10:06 | Message # 1013 |
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| Great shots! Send them to Les at http://www.atoptics.co.uk/?
In particular, see cloud-top flash.
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| Wwadlol | Date: Friday, 12.08.2016, 19:34 | Message # 1014 |
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| Lately I've worked on a series of maps for HL2 that feature no combat, and are centered around atmosphere and puzzle solving.
This is how one of the areas look like.
It takes place in a fictional country called Fining, which had it's entire population evacuated. It also takes place in the HL2 universe, so I've worked the story to fit in the universe.
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| Watsisname | Date: Saturday, 13.08.2016, 11:24 | Message # 1015 |
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| And here comes the great big image dump -- my collection from last night's trip to the mountains to photograph meteors, and some other scenes while I was there.
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| midtskogen | Date: Saturday, 13.08.2016, 13:23 | Message # 1016 |
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| That was an awesome sky, Watsisname. Shoot that weather forecaster.
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| Watsisname | Date: Saturday, 13.08.2016, 13:40 | Message # 1017 |
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| Right? Well, it was a grid forecast using GFS, which is pretty unreliable in the mountains. And it seems the US NWS finally is shooting that forecaster and updating its weather prediction models and servers.
For short term checks, I found the GOES satellite imagery pretty effective for getting the ground truth.
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| Fireinthehole | Date: Saturday, 13.08.2016, 17:13 | Message # 1018 |
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| Great shots, Watsisname! I really enjoy the timelapse sequence.
Love SpaceEngine!
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| spacer | Date: Saturday, 13.08.2016, 17:44 | Message # 1019 |
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| Watsisname, told you it will be worth it!! amazing shots!
"we began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still"
-carl sagan
-space engine photographer
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| Watsisname | Date: Sunday, 14.08.2016, 02:49 | Message # 1020 |
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| Thanks, guys.
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