Tagged with galaxy - Personal View Talks http://personal-view.com/talks/discussions/tagged/galaxy/feed.rss Mon, 04 Nov 24 18:34:48 +0000 Tagged with galaxy - Personal View Talks en-CA Samsung Galaxy NX, APS-C, Android camera http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/7245/samsung-galaxy-nx-aps-c-android-camera Thu, 13 Jun 2013 20:46:07 +0000 Vitaliy_Kiselev 7245@/talks/discussions image

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  • 20.3MP CMOS sensor
  • 1.6GHz quad core CPU
  • 2GB RAM
  • 16GB storage
  • Android 4.2
  • Wi-Fi
  • LTE
  • SVGA viewfinder
  • 1080p24/1080p25, 720p50
  • 8.6fps stills
  • maximum shutter speed of 1/6000th of a second
  • 4,360mAh battery
  • $999 kit price

Previews and such:

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Samsung Galaxy Note 3, 4k 30fps, 720p 120fps http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/8008/samsung-galaxy-note-3-4k-30fps-720p-120fps Wed, 04 Sep 2013 23:58:52 +0000 mintcheerios 8008@/talks/discussions image

Samsung has officially unveiled the Galaxy Note 3 and it is the most advanced device in the Korean company's smartphone line-up yet.

It comes with a 2.3GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor for the LTE 4G version or a 1.9GHz octa-core Samsung processor for regions locked to 3G services, plus 3GB of RAM. The 5.7-inch super AMOLED screen offers a Full HD 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution. And the device will come with Android 4.3 Jelly Bean from the off.

As rumoured, 4K video recording is possible thanks to the presence of the Snapdragon 800 processor. It can shoot UHD content in 30fps for playback to a suitably high resolution display, but should you drop down to Full HD, 60fps video shooting is possible. Slow motion video - shot at 120fps - is possible when recording in 720p.

Read more - http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/123340-samsung-galaxy-note-3-official-5-7-inch-android-4-3-4k-video-recording-and-advanced-s-pen

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Lens the size of a galaxy http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/9821/lens-the-size-of-a-galaxy Sun, 09 Mar 2014 10:12:38 +0000 maxr 9821@/talks/discussions The video is a bit... well "Galileo in your face!" like, not so much actual dissection of methods used.

Source: NASA

Would you believe, bigger than an entire galaxy? At the January 2014 meeting of the American Astronomical Society, researchers revealed a patch of sky seen through a lens more than 500,000 light years wide.

The “lens” is actually a massive cluster of galaxies known as Abell 2744. As predicted by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, the mass of the cluster warps the fabric of space around it. Starlight passing by is bent and magnified, much like an ordinary lens except on a vastly larger scale.

Lately, the Hubble Space Telescope, along with the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, has been looking through this gravitational lens as part of a program called “Frontier Fields.” Auroras Underfoot (signup)

“Frontier Fields is an experiment to explore the first billion years of the Universe’s history,” says Matt Mountain from the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland. The question is, “Can we use Hubble’s exquisite image quality and Einstein’s theory of general relativity to search for the first galaxies?”

The answer seems to be “yes.” At the AAS meeting, an international team led by astronomers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and La Laguna University discussed Hubble and Spitzer observations of the Abell 2744 cluster. Among the results was the discovery of one of the most distant galaxies ever seen—a star system 30 times smaller yet 10 times more active than our own Milky Way. Bursting with newborn stars, the firebrand is giving astronomers a rare glimpse of a galaxy born not long after the Big Bang itself.

Overall, the Hubble exposure of Abell2744 revealed almost 3,000 distant galaxies magnified as much as 10 to 20 times larger than they would normally appear. Without the boost of gravitational lensing, almost all of those background galaxies would be invisible.

Abell 2744 is just the beginning. Frontier Fields is targeting six galaxy clusters as gravitational lenses. Together, they form an array of mighty telescopes capable of probing the heavens as never before.

 
@Vitaliy any chance of having one of this in deals section? :P

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9 GigaPixel image of our galaxy http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/4982/9-gigapixel-image-of-our-galaxy Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:20:47 +0000 karl 4982@/talks/discussions ESO just published a nicely detailed image of our home galaxy:

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Click here for a zoomable version.

So let's skip "4k" and "8k" and head right for the "126k" displays for our homes... ;-)

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iPhone 4S vs. Samsung Galaxy S II Drop Test http://personal-view.com/talks/discussion/1206/iphone-4s-vs.-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-drop-test- Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:05:21 +0000 Eugene 1206@/talks/discussions Apparently Samsung is using Gorilla Glass by Corning tech. & iPhone just normal cheap glass.

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