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The bright star in the top left hand corner appears to have some lens flare going on - maybe Hubble needs new optics again?
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Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: The bright star in the top left hand corner appears to have some lens flare going on
Something like that.
Duncan Edwards Jones wrote: maybe Hubble needs new optics again?
nope. That's fundamental physics combined with deliberate sensor design choices.
The x pattern on it are diffraction spikes caused by the 4 arms holding the secondary mirror in place in front of the primary. They're unavoidable with any conventional reflector telescope, but normally only visible on bright objects.
The blooming effect is because most CCDs/CMOS sensors designed for astronomic imaging use a design that causes the 'electron buckets' for individual pixels to overflow when saturated. Anti-bloom designs exist and are used for most terrestrial purposes; however they roughly half the amount of light captured because instead of running each pixel out to it's maximum size they have large gaps between them to contain/dispose of excess electrons. This means that it takes ~twice as long to image a single target; and since fully saturated (and clipped) pixels don't have any useful data they're rarely a problem. The part you care about won't be exposed long enough to saturate and bloom; and if you want to make a pretty picture you can take a separate, much shorter duration, image that doesn't saturate the bright areas and combine them in post processing.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I am - literally - enlightened 
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Oh if one could be near by and see the black holes of both galaxies combine when they finally coalesce..
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Where's the Dark Matter? How come I can't see any?
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A woman walks in to a bar in a low cut top, everything hanging out. I look. I'm a pervert.
I walk into bar flies undone, everything hanging out. She looks. I'm still the pervert.
modified 23-Apr-14 10:54am.
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Two implications are evident:
1) it's not fair
2) you are a pervert
(rim-shot)
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Perversion is in the eye of the beholder.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Am I the only one impressed he 'hangs out' through an open fly?
- Stubby
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Never thought about it. By-the-way where is the mind bleach.
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You read a thread by 'Blue Waffle' and you've a problem with my comment?
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Not a problem with your post, just a problem with the image.
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Three hours trial and error (and running up and down the stairs) before giving up on trying to share a drive over the network.
The installation disc is now filed under F(*** this for a game of soldiers).
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Can't say I've had that problem with Mint before. I've recently used openSUSE with KDE and I find that to be pretty good, maybe try that.
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The trouble is that all flavours of Linux have the same core problem: to configure anything, you've got to know where eighty-three different, inaptly-named files are stored (many of them related to applications that you're not trying to configure), and also know the exact syntax and character strings to use in each file.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Well that sucks... did you try the Q&A? 
...I've actually gotten good help on this site when I get stuck with something. Sometimes it just takes an extra set of eyes to look at something. Every now and then I'll go through working marathons and I'll occasionally get stuck with something silly probably due to being so tired.
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I searched through existing postings on Mint's own forums, but it sure ain't CP.
I've tabled the project, for now, because of the ridiculous amount of time consumed for the most basic of things. When I restart (probably with a different Linux distro), I'll probably ignore the mothers' basements forums and come straight to CP.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'd go for one of the major distros since they have better community support. Linux Mint however, should be one of the newer more widely used distros... but since it is newer, maybe the community supporting it isn't quite up to par with others.
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I'd settle for the after-dark-in-a-quiet-alley-with-a-blunt-instrument version.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I always had problem with theoretical questions in interview. recently i was interviewed for a SW Architect position and all the question he asked was theoretical like what is MMVM, What is solid principal and DI. I did answer the question and got the offer but i rejected it saying i was not OK with the way interview went and kind of question i was asked and would not like to work with a team like that. My thinking is if you want to know if someone knows thing give him a problem ask to design a solution. Any one who has access to internet can tell you the definitions.
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MMmmhhh... not sure... I would actually love to be in the position of rejecting an offer because the interview did not go the way I expected! Don't be more royalist than the Queen. 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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Rage wrote: Don't be more royalist than the Queen.
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I've never said no to a job offer but I've sabotaged an interview.
I did that once while interviewing for a laboratory position. I was fine until I was given a tour of the facilities and saw that the place was an absolute death trap. After the tour I slumped in my chair, looked around the room as if I were bored, and mumbled a great deal. I dunno if I ever had a shot at the job but I spent half the interview trying to disqualify myself.
I had to interview because I was collecting unemployment at the time.
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