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b0rk b0rk b0rk is b0rked due to b0rkage in php. All years are showing as "0000", and all new posts are being created in year "0000". I'll just wait for the updated php package rather than recompile from scratch.

Nothing doing

Clouds, rain, thunder and more clouds. Not much going on recently.

I bought 72mm and 82mm IDAS LPS-P2 filters to use with camera lenses. On the modified 5D, unlike cropped-frame cameras, there is no room to put an "FF" filter behind the lens and in front of the mirror box. So, I will use these filters on the front of lenses. They can also be used with my E-620, and in 'scopes that can cover a medium format frame.

After trying to buy Kenko R64 filters, which apparently have been discontinued, I bought various B+W 091 MRC filters from B&H. Stacking an 091 filter with an LPS-P2 results in a very wide (30-40nm) H-alpha filter.

In the testing pipeline is:

Scopes:

• Pentax 125SDP vs TOA130F w/35 flattener


• Pentax 125SDP with 67 reducer vs TOA130F with 35 reducer


• Borg 125SD 67 reducer vs 35 reducer


• Borg 125SD with 67 flattener


• Tak FCT-125


• Pentax 75-SDHF vs Sky-90 vs FSQ-85ED vs Borg 77EDII (and perhaps WO M80FDII)


• ETX-90 vs Q-3.5

Lenses:

• Pentax 645 300/4 ED IF


• Olympus OM 300/4.5


• Olympus OM 350/2.8


• Olympus OM 250/2


• Canon FD S.S.C Fluorite 300/2.8


• Sigma 400/5.6 APO


• Olympus ZD 150/2


• Nikon 180/2.8 ED


• OM 50/1.8 vs OM 50/1.4 vs OM 50/1.2 vs Pentax 55/1.8


• OM 24/2.8 vs OM 28/2.8


• CZJ 135/3.5

In the "hack write-up" pipeline:

• Vixen SXW Dec adjustment


• QHY8 fix follow-up