MORPHING METAL STRUCTURES

...ROBOTS IN DISGUISE!! Lol.

Well this is a really exciting discovery! Yes despite everything I mentioned and have as well as am being put through on a certain other blog I can STILL get excited about breakthroughs in science!

Now along with a couple of previous discoveries, one being Graphene, and another to follow this blog I think we may be on the verge of a new era?!

Memory metal that does not suffer fatigue from overuse?! Can be quite thin and combined with Graphene...well dreamy and world changing in its potential!!

I remember from couple years back they also improved the solar cell four fold, though not seen evidence of its availability yet commercially.

Nano-bots and robotics have been taking leaps forward and clear acrylics as strong  as steal, derivatives no doubt used on smart phones?! 

Many imaginations will be running riot before very long and a whole heap of previously thought of as science fiction will become science fact in a short space of time! Within the next five years if idiot governments and military regimes stop meddling for power, control and money that is, lol.

Here is a link...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24400101

Now for the next one seen on the same evening...

NOT QUITE MARS BEST GUESS

I have often wondered about the establishing of the gas elements that make up the atmosphere of an Exoplanet.

I have also repeatedly warned of seemingly good ideas being wrong.

So here is an article that the expected discovery of the gas Methane on Mars has not been detected by the Discovery Rover. At least the maximum that can exist is only a tiny fraction of that which was predicted. 

Not a case of best guess being wrong but best guess with TESTS being wrong!

Still it is the process we go through to reach the facts.

AWAITING NEW TOOLS

I have been waiting an inordinate amount of time for two deliveries to arrive. One of these is a book on Astrophotography but I knew this was coming from America while the other is a lens hood with three different stages, or positions, to it.

I wondered whether or not the hood may have been coming from America too as after a week when it did not arrive I checked the order and the estimated delivery date seemed to be within 24 hours, plus or minus, the date given for the book.

These dates were last Friday and Saturday and as it is now Tuesday I am pretty sure that these will arrive this week FOUR SURE, as my Dutch friends used to say.

I am quite interested in both these arriving and doing a fair bit of reading and then some experimenting. I want to see if the hood makes any difference to the pictures taken with the longer exposures.

Fingers crossed it does, lol.

FIRST PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MOON

Right now here is my first few pictures of the Moon which I did hand held basically because I saw the satellite for the first time in a fair old while.

It was late too so I ran downstairs grabbed the camera and returned, opened up the bedroom window as wide as I can and then pointed through the gap!

Note that it was interesting to see that at full size I managed to pick up a great deal of STARS!!

The photos of the further away Moon are taken at 50x optical Zoom while the closer ones are at 100x Digital, purely for curiosity purposes only.

AROUND THE STARS AGAIN

Well another quick mess around for about 5 minutes....that is until I felt insects on me and thought I was being bitten alive and probably was?!

Realised that with my tripod I cannot make the camera look directly upwards, annoyingly.

I did, however, manage to figure out how to extend the exposures and was to do with the ISO and above either 8000 or 12500 a quarter second is the longest it would allow. Once you drop to below one of these two it will then allow you to adjust all the way up til a 30 second exposure, oddly. It should not matter much but I found the gap a bit odd, lol.

I have a binocular adapter by Opticron that is meant for my Revelation Astro Binoculars but I think it may help with allowing me to point the camera wherever I want?! Ideally and I o recall now I wanted to get a parallelogram type arm for the tripod which would have allowed this freedom with the binoculars as I had a problem with looking directly overhead with that too!

You would think this kind of problem would have been dealt with by the manufacturers would you not? Lol.

So I messed around with 1.6 seconds up to 8 seconds.

I was just curious as to how it would look, lol...

THE FIRST STARLIGHTS

OK so maybe not THE first stars but still the first stars I have attempted to take a photo of and somewhat later than I had planned, lol.

DO not ask me what they are called as I just walked out very late, tired and in pain and got this new camera and pointed it up at whatever was the brightest points and snapped a few shots.

To force me to make a start and just to see out of interest how they would come out.

Was taken solely hand held and I could not get the exposure up and the photos should now encourage me to drag my First Horizon Tripod down the stairs one night, fingers crossed, lol.

Now I HAD planned at this stage to have a DSLR and a nice reflector for this job by Celestron and a 6 inch or 8 inch GOTO scope. But as I have quite literally been shafted for 6 months by Google, Argos and a few others besides this will have to do ... FOR NOW!!

Still ... on-wards and upwards and I plan on doing a great deal more over the next 12 months and far, FAR more than I have done by a factor of 5 at least but hopefully closer to 10?!

Also the camera has exposure time of up to 30 seconds and manual and semi auto modes but I could only figure out at the time how to get it to 1/4 of a second?! Go figure! After I managed to get these pictures I have become very interested to see what I can do with a shield, tripod and longer exposures?!

Camera is a Sony Cybershot DSC-HX300 with a 50x Magnification so as my Revelation Astros are 15x magnification (70mm Objective) I am really keen to experiment. Roll on the cold crystal clear nights!!! No wait a mnute?! Did I way 'roll on the cold nights'?!

Hehe.

Also I need a shield too it seems and I need to obtain one by the time I have broken my back with that heavy tripod?!?!

THE NIKON CONUNDRUM

Well what MORE can I say?!?!

Do not buy your photographic equipment from Argos!!! LMAO

Hmm or NIKON

FOUR CAMERAS AND ALL FAULTY AND OBVIOUSLY REFURBISHED!!

THE UNBOXING

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THE WITNESSES