The Zombie comet (Hartley 2) has eluded me two nights in a row – apparently it’s more difficult to capture than I’d anticipated. The first night’s failure was just stupidity – my exposures were all off and I wasn’t shooting in RAW, but in my defence it was like 3am in the morning and my [...]
Search for the Zombie Comet
October 3rd, 2010 · No Comments · Astronomy
Tags: Cassiopeia·failure·Hartley 2·nerdy talk·Zombie Comet
“Blowing” an Egg
November 16th, 2001 · No Comments · Observations
I needed to take a -really- good look at an egg today, for a project I’m working on. I’m trying to get a really good eggy-looking texture onto a character I’m developing. So I grab an egg out of the fridge, and figure that it’s probably a bad idea to have an egg just sitting [...]
Tags: egg blowing·failure