Explain your name?

[Boboro]

I think that because we are an island of birds they think differently, New Zealand was predator free for... well since this big arse eagle became extinct but also it has never had a native mammal cept a bat.
And to be fair to wake up and hear the dawn chorus of all the native is something pretty special
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5c2K8O2zsQ

From the way Colin's trusses look yall got a lot of birds.

 

[Boboro]

Ive had many reptile freands in my life. Still got a few snakes I call by name Lizzards to.

 

[Seanz]

Got a pretty cool reptile too an old bugger called tuatara. supposedly a reptile yet not classed as a lizard.
http://www.kcc.org.nz/tuatara
Crazy critters been around pretty much unchanged since dinosaurs

 

[Boboro]

I have read of this one over the years. A black market gem.

 

[indianjoe]

If it were not for all my rat-snatchers I would lose a lot of grain in the barns.

 

[Seanz]

I have read of this one over the years. A black market gem.

yeah quite a few people nabbed trying to get our reptiles out for the black market

 

[Boboro]

The ppl. that wiil pay a fortune for these critters are mosty ppl. with good intentions.

 

[Seanz]

I imagine some of them do have good intentions, its the way they get them that i dont like, Ya hear all sorts of mad cases where the animals would have died if not found

 

[Boboro]

A lot do die An I would never get a Rep. like that.I just wish they was a lejet way to get reps. That the pravite sector could do so much with.

 

[Ishi]

Ishi Last wild Indian (stone age) in the lower US. Walked out of the Deer Creek Canyon in the early 1900s. About 20 miles from where i live. Easy name for me to remember and short to type to log in.
Dan

 

[SmokesAhoy]

Oh I thought it was the Japanese ishi, as in o-ishi, meaning good or tasty in the food context heh

 

[BarG]

Good humor fun of names

Title speaks for itself

A BarG aint recommened for a fast food. A more slow and slugissh fill your freezer type. Or maybe a freezer pop? heh heh

 

[ne3go]

Nice thread!
I tried to find a nickname for my first mail-account in yahoo back in 2000. I wanted to use the 2 first letters of my name: Nick Goulopoulos.
Everything i tried was already in use (nigo, goni, ni-go, nigo1, nigo2, nigo3 ...) even with the number between the letters like ni1go,ni2go...!
I thought that half people in Yahoo had first and last name beginning with same letters like me!
So i found ne3go which was available, and that's my nickname in every forum i'm a member.

 

[skychaser]

Because I chase the sky. Here is a self portrait I took during an aurora. My wife is in charge of the sunsets and sunrises.
You can see a few more of our photos at:

http://skychasers.net/paul.htm
http://skychasers.net/sammi.htm

and lots of photos at http://skychasers.net

 

[Knucklehead]

Awesome photography, skychaser. The bottom of each photo lifts your eyes up to the sky.

 

[FmGrowit]

Cool pictures. Is the top one multiple exposures with the camera on some kind of tracking device to compensate for the earths rotation....so the stars stay in the same place in the picture?

 

[Randy]

Great pictures Sky!!

Randy

 

[skychaser]

Cool pictures. Is the top one multiple exposures with the camera on some kind of tracking device to compensate for the earths rotation....so the stars stay in the same place in the picture?

Nope. Just a time exposure with the camera on a tripod. That was about a 20 second exposure. I clicked the shutter, ran out in front of it, and stood there for 10-15 seconds and ran back out. lol

You can shoot for about 30 seconds before the Earths rotation starts to make the stars trail. If you want star trails, set the camera on a high F stop and a low ASA number, put it on a tripod and let it expose for an hour or two. You get some pretty cool shots that way. Point at Polaris (the north star) and the stars do circles around it.

To shoot deep space objects like nebula's or galaxies, you need to use a tracking platform or telescope that compensates for the rotation. You use a guide scope with a star locked in its cross hairs while you shoot the photo. Even the best of tracking platforms or telescopes drift a little, so you have to stare in the guide scope and make tiny corrections manually during the shot. That's the old school way. Now days you can get guide scopes and attach a CCD chip to them that controls the trackers motors and makes the corrections for you. But I think that is cheating. lol But auroras are easy.

 

[ve3sws]

In addition to gardening, I also avidly enjoy Ham Radio. VE3SWS is my Ham radio call sign.

 

[Randy]

Thats kool ve3sws..about the ham radio..its one of those things always wanted to get-into..but probily would have been banned after few nites on the air with my friend JD!!

Randy