Wesley's Tool-Box

I've gotten around to fitting Baader AstroSolar safety film onto my Canon SX50 HS. The first round of tests, taking photos of Sun with my daughter, worked pretty well. I forgot to zoom all the way in, but the sunspots are readily visible.

Settings: 864mm (36x) - ISO 80 - 1/100s - 9 photos stacked with RegiStax 6.1.0.8

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I have to wonder if anyone remembers this now...
Because I wrote up about this experience the day after it happened.

Brings back so many memories. I nearly forgot I met all those musicians back then.

There's been a lot of fuss (again) about the "Supermoon" that was supposed to come up during the night because the Moon was at the closest distance from the Earth for this year. Well, this is it. It was rather cloudy all day, so I was worried I might not get any good shots. Thankfully, the clouds thinned out from time to time and allowed me to grab enough photos. Remember to click on the photo to see the full-resolution version.

Canon SX50 HS - 2013-06-23 23:11 KST - 1200mm - ISO 80 - 1/60s - 12 photos stacked with RegiStax 6.1.0.8

One of my old-time friend was intrigued with the Saturn photos that I took with Canon SX50 HS, and he wanted to see what Moon would look like with it. This is my answer. The camera takes really big photos of the satellite, so I'm showing just a crop (click the image for the full picture). Even the small craters are easily distinguishable. The power of the superzoom never ceases to amaze me.

For the record, this was taken with my first daughter Celine. She loves looking over the sky with her dad. Half of the photos used for stacking were taken by her.

Settings: 1200mm, ISO 80, 1/60s, 22 photos stacked with RegiStax 6.1.0.8

If you're playing Simpsons: Tapped Out game (iOS / Android) on your spare time like me, and also happened to be a developer that upgraded your phone to iOS 7 (beta 1), then you may encounter a bizarre bug where you automatically get login to a completely random, but different account.

Some leafing through the web yielded some clues on what was likely going on. It seems to be caused by the way EA implemented the device and account management.

Apparently, EA decided to keep session information of both the device and the account that it's logged in on the server. When a user exits the game and comes back, the game checks the device and automatically login to the account it was last associated with. Seems harmless, right?