gimp x11 session

 The Wayland session does not save window positions on exit so, grudgingly we edit:

/usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop

and change:

Exec=GDK_BACKEND=x11 gimp-3.2 %U

kubuntu 26.04

Upgrade from 25.10 

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

and 20 minutes later...

gimp 3 run in x11

 Until there's a proper Wayland version where window positions can be remembered...

GDK_BACKEND=x11 gimp

106-5

 Slowly getting the hang of it. Red giants in the globular and a bit of colour in the galaxy.

m5 in serpens

m106 in canes venatici

eu time format 24h clock

/etc
$ cat locale.conf

# File generated by update-locale
LANG=en_US
LC_TIME=C_UTF-8

m100 m5 m56

More 8" reflector stuff over two nights, 18th. and 19th. April. Lucky the first night, not so the second with haze preventing focus aroiund 03:00; the second set of m5 was curtailed. Finished night one with just 2 (two) of a planned 18 on m56. Ah well...

galaxy m100 and friends in coma berenices
atr533 on gso203    80x4min @ hcg100

globular cluster m5 in serpens
atr533 on gso203    72x4min @hcg100

globular cluster m56 in lyra 
atr533 on gso203    2x4min @ hcg100

   

m13

the gso203 workhorse

 

Finally put the refractor to rest and got out the 203. Still galaxy season so after the galaxies swung west, the big globulars rose. Good seeing with guiding rarely above 0,4"rms.

Big callout too for Frankin at setiastro.com. His SetiAstroSuitePro software should take most of the credit...

globular cluster m13 in hercules
atr533c on gso203    (best of) 70x4min @ hcg100