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My first lightning shot (miss).
Bolt on first pic was pretty nice but I caught just a branch of it. I didn't know what brightness to expect so I set ISO way too high, ending with a crappy pic.
Second is inter/intra cloud lightning, pretty far away and not very nice.
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On a whim I dug out my old QX3 webcammicroscope (320x240 at 10, 80, or 200x optical magnification) and downloaded all 93mb of software that it needs (ya, right) from intel and grabbed an old computer chip...
It turned out pretty good for the crude focusing system... I didn't shop it at all, but I did cheat by helping the little tiny light with a luxeon headlamp to get enough light for the ccd to work... This also gave a neat blue color I just wish it was a bit higher that 320x240, so I could use it as a desktop. Perhaps it is time to make an adapter to use my real camera on my real microscope...
I should point out something special about that chip; the substrate it clear I can see all of the way down to the solder on the bottom of the die, very interesting to look at with a better (40x stereo) uscope.
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About time I posted some pics from work!!
I've been doing some EMC stuff, and whilst waiting for a 30 minute sweep on a lamp to finish I decided to start desoldering parts from some scrap boards. Our boards contain a small SMPS so I was salvaging the 100uF 400v smoothing cap and the transformer. This soon turned into a major operation when I found a box of about 20 more scrap boards, so I decided that I needed to run that 30 minute sweep a couple more times to verify my results
Note the solder puddle on the floor, it was a heatgun desoldering job
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Here is a photo of an Iridium flare I took two nights ago. It was magnitude -4 so it was pretty bright. Center of the flare would have been -8 (visible in daylight), but that was about 10 miles away from my position.
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I just wish it was a bit higher that 320x240, so I could use it as a desktop. Perhaps it is time to make an adapter to use my real camera on my real microscope...
I can see all of the way down to the solder on the bottom of the die, very interesting to look at with a better (40x stereo) uscope.
