u/instantlightning2

Hi! Im going to attempt to capture the falcon 9 stage hitting the moon tonight. I have a pretty ranky dank set up, but for budget astro its worked out pretty well for me. I have an iPhone attached to an eyepiece and my ETX 125 that Ive used to capture occultations, solar eclipses, and some good moon photos. For this event what settings would yall recommend? Would yall recommend upping the exposure since the plume will be faint? Thank you!

My girlfriend (as of rn but it’s probably not going to last) of 10 months is currently discarding me due to being an avoidant. This isnt the first time she has tried to run when things got real it’s happened 2 times before, but she acknowledged she was scared of intimacy and self sabotaging and was working on herself. But this time feels a lot more real. Things were going perfectly so I bought her a gift for her birthday a month ago. This gift is a custom made PC with worth nearing $1000. I bought it for her out of love and shared hobbies. Last week we had the most perfect days together, literally the most intimate moments of my life, and then Saturday she got incredibly drunk and called her ex from last year. Then she drove up to me and like a flip of a switch all of the love that was in the relationship felt like it was put into a bubble and thrown away. She gave me the typical excuses an avoidant uses at first before I pried more like “oh we’re just not compatible” I asked how and she gave no response, “I just havent loved you romantically and have just loved you as a friend,” and I told her clearly that isnt true because last weekend was literally the most romantic thing Ive experienced, and I know she felt it too because of the way we were looking into each others eyes, telling we love each other during intimacy, and having the most tender moments, and she tried to dismiss that as just being us drunk. She then said “you deserve better,” and “Im afraid of disappointing you” and literally, Im honestly surprised literally every vague line you hear on social media that avoidants use when running she said while we were arguing about it. Im surprised there really is a template for this kind of thing, and it gave me more reason to believe that she wasnt being honest with me or herself.

I kept prying and she told me the truth that she called her ex, and she can’t cope with doing such a shitty thing to me. I told her this is something we can talk about because honestly Ive had my lows too and this might be something we can get past. I told her it felt like she was putting the relationship into a whole bubble to avoid feeling anything about it and she agreed that she was compartmentalizing the relationship. I managed to talk her down into trying to give it a month where we’re more disengaged but still technically together and exclusive so we can think things through, and so the relationship can be given the thought it deserves instead of all of a sudden being put in a bubble and thrown away with not even a chance of talking about it. She asked me if we break up if I want the pc back, and after being done dirty Im honestly considering it. If she didnt offer I know Id be tempted to ask, but it’s a lot of money and it was invested as a way to share hobbies as well. I know I wouldnt mind her keeping it if the relationship ran its course naturally. In the meantime I have a whole month to figure out also whether or not I want to be with this person and weigh the pros and cons, and she does too. I seriously have loved this relationship, and I know she has deep down too, even if right now our relationship is in a bubble in her head to avoid feeling her feelings. In this month is there anything I can do to try to reconnect with her? We’re supposed to go to a concert next week in another state and spend the night, and Im wanting to consider still going but not talking until the day of.

I find it so funny because the lyrics are somber as hell, so seeing that it was used in a commercial with a happy vibe is something.

Are you balding? Here is a research paper to answer your question.

https://preview.redd.it/x9be55hgxe2h1.png?width=867&format=png&auto=webp&s=7aa3d59c6f57048eb0ab5bc3c914ec356283b324

Anything above B3 and C3 can be classified as balding. A1 marks where your juvenile hairline used to be. Raise your eyebrows as high as you can and your highest wrinkle is a good indicator where it used to be.

Currently I have an RX 7800XT and Ryzen 7 5700x. A pretty balanced build. However, currently I am building a PC for my girlfriend's birthday that's coming up. I have a spare RX 7800XT that Im planning on using, so I thought to myself I might as well upgrade my CPU and give her my old CPU. However, if I drove to the nearest microcenter and bought this bundle I know that my RX 7800 XT will bottleneck hard. I do plan on upgrading my GPU within 2-3 years, but will the 9850x3D have depreciated enough by then to make that investment not worth it? Thank yall!