pipnina

I attempted to work out how self-hosting a website work when I was a teenager. Used a mk1 raspberry pi with apache2 server and worked out how to make it public (albeit only via ip address not with a URL)

It only had a few photographs on it and some wacky CSS layout and basically 0 content. It got turned into a botnet component which I only discovered when people in my house started getting captchas when trying to use google haha.

I think the most common and basic attacks are automated, just try sites and addresses at random for common vulnerabilities like default passwords and default configurations of popular software like apache2 hoping to gain easy access to one of the millions of machines hosting amateur or small business machines to do botnet dirtywork.

Suffice to say the internet is a dangerous place!

I feel very lucky to have had near uninterrupted clear skies in Plymouth for the last two weeks! It has now sadly come to an end but after the horrible weather this winter and spring I am very happy to have had it!

Hopefully you get your turn with the hole in the clouds soon!

Unfortunately the bank account balance (and lack thereof) makes itself all too well known haha

Indeed mine was a massive success!

Hope you get similar uplift in results! I think you can tell which one was taken with vs without haha

Don't worry, it get easier with practice.

Polar alignment is a huge deal, but easy to get it "close enough" with a little practice. The SynScan handset tells you what clock angle polaris should be in the polar scope remember, so you can use that to get a good idea of where to put it!

I have to agree! A wonderful set of nights perfectly coinciding with me being home from work.

Hope to get some good use from my kit. Pleiades was clear as anything when I was outside just now. A lot of the cluster of stars surrounding Aldeberan were visible too despite the light pollution being heavier in that direction.

Thanks, Merry Christmas to you too Charl

Our patience will be worth it when we get to point our scopes to orion and andromeda again.

Yeah. It seems to be whenever I have time to get the kit out, the sky has something to say about it.

I have lovely, cloudless weather here... The forecast says that goes bye-bye at 23:00 and comes back at 03:00 though ?

That is definitely proof of a good camera!

Probably

They always come when you think you're safe! (And spent half an hour setting things up!)

Well if you have gotten new kit I think you've already let the clouds out on me.

I hope it didn't take any files with it.

I've also been tempted by the prospect of new kit, in part due to the weather. I have to remember that it will only get used about 10 times this year if I do buy it...

I hope your clear skies come with haste as well!

The clouds look to taunt me for at least a few days now according to the forecast. Maybe if I'm lucky I will get something on saturday...

I've posted the version without the extra data. I might post the updated version at some point but I'm still not happy with it.

Seemed to improve things a fair bit, but still really noisy. Dunno if it's worth collecting another 3h to get the same reduction again...

It was 1c last night and I was cold enough. You must have been covered in a lot of thermals to stand staying in that weather!

Thanks for the link, we've managed to remove the ballhead from my dad's tripod and it's made the Star Adventurer much more stable!

I'll have to see if this can be done, cheers!

I did look at the Pleiades that night, the cluster is very bright but I have never seen any nebulosity. Unless I have, but didn't see it due to the brightness of the stars.

I'm told you have to be careful with e-cigs, though. My sister's friend used them to quit real smokes but realized that they actually made her unaware of how much nicotine she was taking. (She didn't smoke that much, but every time she got the e-cig out she would take 30 cigs of nicotine without realizing).

Any step towards 0 smoke is a good one, however. Good luck!