Archive for July, 2009

Vaughan.

Did two new portraits for Vaughan Harvey the other day.

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And.

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MMAC 1 Design.

Knocked up a design for the MMAC1 championships today.

Variation 1.

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Variation 2.

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Tron 2.0 trailer.

Man this looks so good, and so glad they kept the original star.

Resident Evil 5 Benchmark.

Downloaded and ran the benchmark today. System specs are

  • Q6600 @ 3.2
  • 9800gtx+ @ stock
  • 8gb Kingston 8500

I put the settings to max in the benchmark and ran it in DX10 mode.

Settings.

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Fixed Benchmark.

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Variable.

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Video with vsycn enabled.

I’m fairly pleased with the results. The 9800GTX+ Is an outstanding value for money card and still holding its own.

First Sun.

This is my first capture of the sun. Seems really quite of late, no activity at all.

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Captured the transit of moon Io tonight with impact site.

EDIT – It appears I captured an asteroid impact, I may have been the first on the planet to see and Image this….

Impact.

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Io transit.

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Smiley moth.

So I was mkaing some tea and saw this looking at me.

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More Moon.

I’m an intermediate to advanced photoshop user, yet still, editing and getting the best out of astronomy images is stillĀ  steep learning curve, but I’m climbing it slowly. I decided to show you some color and mono negative moon images, this process seems to enhance the detail that’s there.

Montage.

negatives

Single color.

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Single mono.

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Venus.

Another Venus, Seems in the same transition.

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Jupiter.

Got a really good view of jupe this morning and for the first time achieved focus with the 2x Barlow and psc900nc

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