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Hobbies - A thread for other things we kill time doing.

Asteroid Vesta
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Despite being just 300 miles wide it is the brightest asteroid visible from Earth and can even be sometimes seen with the unaided eye in very dark places.

I caught it with 40x magnification and an over 2 hour exposure on an atypically dark night.
 
M 57 Ring Nebula

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This is just a 15 minutes exposure when I was still learning. I will get it in all its glory next Spring.
 
Kepler, those are all great and it makes me look forward to getting a telescope in retirement, pending the world survives long enough for me to retire.
 
I'm trying out audio production as a hobby. I've started by learning how to use a free/shareware DAW (Cakewalk Sonar) to mix a new vocal stem with an already-mastered instrumental stem. Lots of terminology to absorb (Gain, Attack, Compression, EQ, Punch, Decay, etc.).
 
Side note: I also bought my first-ever condenser mic for this experiment, and Jesus H. Christ is there a background sound these DON'T pick up? I've had to shutoff fans, air filters, etc. just to record without having to process out a background hiss/rumble.
 
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