Richard Hendricks

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twitter	https://twitter.com/hendric
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Github	https://github.com/richardhendricks
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Richard Hendricks's Bio

Goblin Amateur Astronomer
Space Enthusiast
Had 15 minutes of fame once (see profile pic)
Occasional Astrophotographer
Staff Radio Firmware Engineer at Silicon Labs
KSU '97
He/him
Score: 10
Still a loser
Austin, TX

Richard Hendricks's Posts

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Richard Hendricks	8 months ago 😔 Guess I'll work on astrono-do's this week. _kicks rock_ #AmateurAstronomy #Astronomy Tags: #amateurastronomy #astronomy Likes: 0 Replies: 0 Boosts: 0
Richard Hendricks	8 months ago Solar Processing Notes Use 20% stack from AutoStakkert!4, drizzle 1p5x Use waveSharp,You will need to adjust for your image scale, mine is: .12/40.5, .12/21, .12/11 Save as 16 bit tiff import to GIMP I used this video to work out this flow, in case you need a visual aid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRHwyLcutyEuse 1/ Likes: 0 Replies: 0 Boosts: 0
Richard Hendricks	1 month ago Doing some comparisons between my scopes. Just got a new AT72EDII. (FL 432mm) and it is a pretty capable scope for being a lightweight grab and go. Took Jupiter images through it, my workhorse AT90CFT (FL 540mm) and my planetary scope the AT125EDL (FL 975mm). The skies are just trash tonight, though with thin high clouds and just atrocious seeing (twinkling means unsteady skies). We'll see what the fancy software can do! #AmateurAstronomy #Jupiter Tags: #amateurastronomy #jupiter Likes: 0 Replies: 0 Boosts: 0
Richard Hendricks	2 years ago I've finally decided on my amateur astronomy upgrade plans. 1. Mount: HEM44 - Hybrid Equatorial Mount from iOptron. This mount is just releasing now, and features a Harmonic Wave drive on RA. This allows for the mount to forgo counterweights and be much lighter than a normal worm or belt-driven mount. I'll probably get the EC version, since it has better periodic error and I want to avoid a guidescope for shorter focal lengths. That low weight and no need for counterweights is very alluring. Likes: 0 Replies: 0 Boosts: 0
Richard Hendricks	2 years ago #Introduction Hello, my name is Rich Hendricks. I'm a Space Enthusiast, with a particular love for uncrewed missions. My 15 mintues of fame was helping the New Horizons mission pick Kodak Moments during the Jupiter flyby, such as https://www.planetary.org/articles/0932 and https://europa.nasa.gov/resources/161/europa-rising/. For my day job, I am a 32 bit RF engineer, so I occasionally complain about #embedded programming. Line endings are still causing a problem, in 2022?? Tags: #introduction #embedded Likes: 0 Replies: 0 Boosts: 0

Richard Hendricks	1 day ago I was going to skip tonight but a friend astrono-shamed me into looking outside at the appointed time and it turned out the skies were clear. Guess something went right?? #AmateurAstronomy #Astronomy #moon #Mars Tags: #amateurastronomy #astronomy #moon #mars Likes: 0 Replies: 0 Boosts: 1
Richard Hendricks	2 days ago In response to this post @ai6yr Movies in 2050 will be about the Draft coming back to staff the Wildfire corps. Mentions: @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Likes: 0 Replies: 0 Boosts: 0
Richard Hendricks	1 month ago Doing some comparisons between my scopes. Just got a new AT72EDII. (FL 432mm) and it is a pretty capable scope for being a lightweight grab and go. Took Jupiter images through it, my workhorse AT90CFT (FL 540mm) and my planetary scope the AT125EDL (FL 975mm). The skies are just trash tonight, though with thin high clouds and just atrocious seeing (twinkling means unsteady skies). We'll see what the fancy software can do! #AmateurAstronomy #Jupiter Tags: #amateurastronomy #jupiter Likes: 0 Replies: 0 Boosts: 0
Richard Hendricks	8 months ago Solar Processing Notes Use 20% stack from AutoStakkert!4, drizzle 1p5x Use waveSharp,You will need to adjust for your image scale, mine is: .12/40.5, .12/21, .12/11 Save as 16 bit tiff import to GIMP I used this video to work out this flow, in case you need a visual aid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRHwyLcutyEuse 1/ Likes: 0 Replies: 0 Boosts: 0
Richard Hendricks	8 months ago 😔 Guess I'll work on astrono-do's this week. _kicks rock_ #AmateurAstronomy #Astronomy Tags: #amateurastronomy #astronomy Likes: 0 Replies: 0 Boosts: 0
Richard Hendricks	2 years ago I've finally decided on my amateur astronomy upgrade plans. 1. Mount: HEM44 - Hybrid Equatorial Mount from iOptron. This mount is just releasing now, and features a Harmonic Wave drive on RA. This allows for the mount to forgo counterweights and be much lighter than a normal worm or belt-driven mount. I'll probably get the EC version, since it has better periodic error and I want to avoid a guidescope for shorter focal lengths. That low weight and no need for counterweights is very alluring. Likes: 0 Replies: 0 Boosts: 0
Richard Hendricks	2 years ago #Introduction Hello, my name is Rich Hendricks. I'm a Space Enthusiast, with a particular love for uncrewed missions. My 15 mintues of fame was helping the New Horizons mission pick Kodak Moments during the Jupiter flyby, such as https://www.planetary.org/articles/0932 and https://europa.nasa.gov/resources/161/europa-rising/. For my day job, I am a 32 bit RF engineer, so I occasionally complain about #embedded programming. Line endings are still causing a problem, in 2022?? Tags: #introduction #embedded Likes: 0 Replies: 0 Boosts: 0