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Old 11-26-2019, 02:14 AM   #21 (permalink)
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Alexander River Hirsch
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Zhuó Xiá Li

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Should is a relative term? Uh?? His eyebrows furrowed slightly as he looked off into the distance. What did she mean by that? Could she go into more detail? Explain why it was relative and not a must? Because he couldn't imagine a situation where they didn't track these events. Weren't they huge in the Astronomy world?

But Sandhu was moving on so he tried to focus on her, instead. And she was talking about measuring and recording? And skyglow, which was talking about the brightness of the sky. At this, he glanced up at the sky itself and...... yeah, he had questions. Questions that came from his brain wandering and overthinking but they were questions he was sure Sandhu would be used to by now.

When it was time to start moving, Lucas got up and moved to the front of the room to collect a camera. Any camera, since they all looked the same. The next step was finding the right place to shoot the picture so that the white paper filled up the field of view, which was a lot harder than he thought it would be. How did photographers do this? Was this why he always saw some of them bending down or even laying down to get the perfect shot?

Eventually, he did find the perfect distance. How long did it take? That..... didn't matter because it happened. Even if he had to lean across the desk to get the paper in the frame, which he was still doing as he tried to get it into focus. If it was alive, he would’ve thought that the camera had a mind of its own because it didn’t want to do what he wanted it to do. Or he was bad at photography.

.......... Yeah. That sounded about right.

Next came a bunch of numbers, which he wasn’t confused by but was also not comfortable with, either. The ISO has to be set to 200? Uh, okay. He didn’t know why or what the number meant or if there was any significance but the number was being set to 200. It seemed pretty low given the options that were there so he had even more questions but he was moving on.

The aperture has to be set to f/2.8? Was he reading that correctly? Lucas glanced between the camera he was working with and the board and back again. Okay? It seemed like this lesson was going to be full of questions because he had even more that he wanted to ask and know about. Or maybe it was because this was more about photography than Astronomy and he wasn’t sure how he felt about that.

With the aperture set and the resolution set to low - his brain was bursting with questions and question marks - he set to work on something he did understand. Thank Merlin! Pulling his notebook closer, he started drawing up two tables to track the pixel value information that Sandhu was talking about. THIS was more like it! This was more........ science and maybe if he thought about it like that, this would make more sense.

Maybe.
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