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New comment by salezred in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

salezred — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:12:01 +0000

I have a sports car and a Model Y. Whenever I go on a twisty mountain road, without fail, if I will encounter what you said. It does not matter which of the two cars I drive! What's worse is that this happens even in roads where the speed limit is 35 mph and those people may drive 25 mph or even 15 mph! (See the road passing through Cambria in California. It's an epic drivers' road, and yet...)

New comment by salezred in "My midlife crisis Corolla is fast, furious, and modded"

salezred — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:08:08 +0000

As a counterpoint for practical (i.e., performance) mods being the only mods that matter... I have a F82 which has a few carbon fiber parts to make it stand out a bit. I really don't think I need more performance than what it has to offer, so making it look nicer seems like e a good idea (at least it won't look identical to all other F82s).

Now, would I do that to a Camry? No freakin way.

New comment by salezred in "Astrophotography visibility plotting and planning tool"

salezred — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:03:16 +0000

The funny thing is that I personally have ended up creating a "large" google sheet with all the Messier objects which my rig could image, and added a column for "when" to image (i.e., spring, etc). It's served me quite well.

As I said in another comment, a true killer feature would be to image my yard, with all the obstacles blocking the sky, and intersecting the available sky space with the trajectories of those objects, and use that info to actually tell me what I can image.

New comment by salezred in "Astrophotography visibility plotting and planning tool"

salezred — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:57:57 +0000

If you're the author or if anyone knows a program that can do this, it would be great to have a way to take a photoshphere or a 360 degree pano and see what is actually viewable from a particular location.

I've done this in stellarium to some degree but i am still not very happy with it because I still can't quite get an accurate estimate without a tremendous amount of manual work, so someone actually actively working on this would be amazing.