rethinks under xeon fun

 The Xeon making light weight of a few reprocesses...

m33

m45

m71

ngc281

ngc7380

sh2-155

sh2-190 + melotte 15

gimp x11 session

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

/usr/share/applications/gimp.desktop

and change the Exec= line to:

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