Thanks for the clarification. I don't think so, my largest eyepiece has a field stop of 39mm, and I'm taking advantage of the fact that edge illumination falloff is not perceptible in visual astronomy when the f/D ratio is low.
I'm planning this kind of build for my 16". It's still a dob, still uses teflon against formica and a wood structure, but the ability to move it easily indeed became a desirable feature.
Well, I could, but checking collimation at 1-2D magnification for an instrument used at 0.16D provides no observable advantage once star collimation was done. My rule of thumb is to star collimate at a higher power than actually used to observe
Hi ! It is quite easy, with 2 tilt screws at the secondary cage, and the primary cell floats on three heavy duty springs. I can shake it and nothing moves, this is my first criteria. I collimate with a cheshire tool but always finish on a star at medium power (since this telescope realistically does not reach high power, since it would need 2mm eyepieces which are the opposite of wide field views). I use it with Explore Scientific 17mm 92 degree, and a 13mm APM XWA 100 degree eyepieces, and do star collimation with a 6.7mm eyepiece.
So most of the use is at 25x, to frame huge objects like NGC7000 or the largest extensions of M31
I am also trying to automate the XYZ table, capture and analysis like WavefrontPro does, I have a POC going on that bases itself on a CLI-only build of DFTFringe + outside orchestration with Elixir. My goal would be to control everything with a gamepad and automate the whole test session. Here is a video : ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii2eGb7vbk4 ). But I need to throw the code away and rewrite it.
After this year's Paris marathon, I ran the same per-minute graphs, and they match perfectly the "overall study" graphs with more than 9 million finishes in the article. I also added graphing by age category and gender. I don't want to deduce too much but I think it showed that young men are the most "competitive" (what I mean by that is targeting a specific time) since there are the clearest "goal time" peaks in the graphs.
There is no rest. There is just (properly done) a continuous output from start to finish, or a very slight increase of output (negative splitting), but effort to maintain it feels exponential. In terms of feeling, it’s a 32km « dynamic run » where you should feel good, then the hardest 10k you can pull off just after that. If paced properly there should not be a « wall » but at all levels you pass people walking who disintegrated around 30km. Even people with sub-elite/elite bibs sometimes explode.
A half is more intense but way easier, you’re just sub threshold but for a time short enough that you cannot really not make it.
Yeah you're right, I hear it more like "this is a week long hike, not a sprint" as if a marathon included rest. In any length of racing there's no tomorrow. But I'm doing tongue-in-cheek pedanticness here and will stop that right now !
It makes me smile when runners use "X is a marathon, not a sprint" to hint at an effort that accumulates over time and an optimal use of energy.
I do it too because it's a common expression, and a marathon is of course longer than a sprint, but both have in common that properly raced, they are absolutely brutal efforts that leave you without a single additional drop at the end. The effort length and instantaneous power output changes, of course. Maybe "it's a marathon build, not the race" would be more precise at the loss of nearly all its expressive power (but with a lot more pedanticism points) :-p .
I routinely use "load bearing" in conversations and writing, both seriously and ironically (like a "load bearing just" or "load bearing paint").. maybe I should stop.
The hydrogel textures (not maurten but naak, but close enough), for me, allow while racing to swallow a full 40g gel in half a second without feeling the sugary taste a lot, which is nice. Compared to thick syrup-like gels, it’s a way better experience in a marathon.
But I only buy for actual races, rest of the time, I do my own 1:0.8 mix with a bit of thickener, in soft flasks. Much more cost effective.
Converting an app that started per-client deploy, single-tenant, cloud-ignorant and mono-node to multi-tenant, multi-node, cloud storage and a cluster of a few nodes.
On one hand, I regret not having thought it could find a market and I now have to do this and plan a migration.
On the other, I saved a lot of time going to customers instead of building the boring side first... So I don't know what to think of it.
I find that most of the development work is now "ops" instead of user-facing features (either addition, removal, or polish) and am a bit perplex at this.
Re : running relaxed, it is said that the real marathon is the training you put in, and the race itself should feel like a celebration. I am not anywhere near elite level but felt that for a lot of races. The hardships of the training enables a state of deep calm, joy and feeling like you are flying the morning of the actual race. Nights before races are often very bad, like a last storm before everything clears and your mind is finally empty when you get into the corral. Then, with a clear mind, you proceed to run with joy despite being physically tired by the training and sleepless night.
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