So many parking apps, but also I installed my third pharmacy app today. And I have 6 different 2FA apps.

I went full stache

Moving to my own place and being single was unexpected. It will be interesting to see what the next phase of life brings.

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

Went to watch practice at IMS today. Best place on earth.

m45 - Pleiades An astrophotograph by Tony A. on AstroBin

Pleiades is the image that taught me the trick to a better image is time. You can look through my history of images here to see how more integration time brought out more detail.
www.astrobin.com/212464/H/

I intentionally used an old photo for this example, as it was with a regular DSLR and telescope.
JWST and Hubble images are the same, though for theirs, the color is "mapped" to different channels to represent space in a more pleasing way.

But there is definitely color in space!

A bit more cleanup, and you get a final image. The color was there, just brought out by a combination of taking lots of photos, and increasing them.

Finally, you "stretch" it, taking the existing color, and "turning it up".

You then use that software to balance out the background, remove some noise, and generally clean up the image.

But, if you take that one photo again and again, you can "stack" them. AKA, combine them to make one total photo.
Yes, this is done with software, but it's just "adding up" the light from each picture.

First, a simple image. Taken with a small telescope (aka, big camera lens, really. 71mm diameter) and a regular old DSLR. I took a (fairly long) photo. This was a couple minutes, and is more or less right out of the camera. Sky and stars. Like our eyes see.
And a faint fuzzy bit.

I see it all the time - comments that photos of space are "fake" or "photoshop". In the modern time of AI, it's right to be skeptical. But don't doubt that there is color in space, and not all photos are "fake". A thread, including actual examples of a photo I took myself with a canon DSLR.

It does not take a hubble or james web to pick up color in a nebula. A regular old DSLR and a smallish telescope can. Sometimes they're remapped, other times they're "visual", and they're "stretched" with software. But it's just just "made up with photoshop" - it may be faint, but space is colorful.

I can see why @indycar.com signed with Fox. But as a cord cutter who often can't watch live broadcasts, and in an area with bad reception, I'll go from watching most practices and all races, to hoping to find a way to watch the 500. Peacock pricing was reasonable. Fox streaming options aren't.

That was such a fun weekend. Fond memories of it.