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ALL 611 of my BipTunia song titles as of May 22, 2024...

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2024/05/22

(^ My recent astro photo of those Eyes nebulea called NGC6914 in Cygnus) You can listen to a 24/7 random stream of all these songs, here. HERE ARE ALL 611 BipTunia song titles as of May 22, 2024 (Up through album 90): 10 TET Ancient Greek Arps for Hey Zeus 11 ED3 Jump for Jumping … Continue reading "ALL 611 of my BipTunia song titles as of May 22, 2024 (Up through album 90)"

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My astro photo of NGC 6914

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2024/05/20

As always, tech details are on my AstroBin account.

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Me with new telescope, and first photos I took with it.

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2024/03/12

Me with my new scope and the first photos I took with it. Camera: ZWO ASI2600MC. Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro. ASIAIR Pro. No star reduction on any. Scope: Quattro 250P Imaging Newtonian 10″ Integration: NGC 3628 (Hamburger Galaxy): 3 hours, 20 minutes. M101: 2 hours 8 minutes. Rosette Nebula; 30 minutes.

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My Rosette Nebula photo, 1000mm, F/4,

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2024/03/09

I shot this for 30 of minutes last night before it went behind The Forest of Dean (the little stand of 6 big trees on the back of our farm by the AstroHut, named ironically after the country-sized forest in England). No star reduction. Quattro 250P Imaging Newtonian 10″ scope.

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Pinwheel Galaxy: My first-light pix w/ new Quattro...

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2024/03/05

My shot of Pinwheel Galaxy, (Messier 101) from the other night 21 million light-years from Earth. 2 hour and 8 min of shooting. 1000 mm at f/4. Also, un-cropped image with overlay of what’s what (PGC ones are more-distant galaxies.) and a photo of the scope on my mount. It barely fits in the AstroHut, … Continue reading "Pinwheel Galaxy: My first-light pix w/ new Quattro 250P Imaging Newtonian 10″ telescope"

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For sale: Celestron EdgeHD 8″ used with accessories....

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2024/02/11

(Text below all photos) I’m selling a Fastar-compatible Celestron EdgeHD 8″, used with accessories. This scope is great for astrophotography or visual astronomy. Focal length is 2032 mm, or if you add the .7x reducer that Celestron makes, focal length then is 1470 mm. Leave a comment below using your real email and I’ll get … Continue reading "For sale: Celestron EdgeHD 8″ used with accessories. $995 with shipping"

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Radio BipTunia

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2024/01/28

Bookmark this player for 24/7 random feed of all the songs I’ve made in since 2018, 88 albums and counting.

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Zwo RMA customer support is so poor it’s driven me to...

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2024/01/24

(Zwo / ASI is a company that makes #astrophotography gear) —- ZWO makes great gear for the money but the customer service is horrible. I’m going to divest from using Zwo gear over the next few years, and Zwo has lost thousands of dollars in future purchases from me from this ordeal. (What Zwo did … Continue reading "Zwo RMA customer support is so poor it’s driven me to never buy Zwo again"

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Great desktop computer for working with PixInsight

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2024/01/20

I recently replaced an i7 computer I bought new 6 years ago with a new Lenovo Legion T5 Tower Gaming Desktop Computer – AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 16-Core 4.50 GHz Processor, 64GB DDR5 RAM, 2TB NVMe SSD, GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GDDR6, Windows 11 Pro that I got on Amazon. After setting it up to … Continue reading "Great desktop computer for working with PixInsight"

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“Microtonal Loud Rock Synth Pop Ambient Symphonic...

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2023/12/20

Microtonal Loud Rock Synth Pop Ambient Symphonic Delight by BipTunia RUN TIME: 73 Minutes. RELEASE DATE: Dec 20, 2023 Listen free or buy on BandCamp Listen on Spotify (coming soon) FLAC lossless torrent (coming soon) All instruments, songs, production, mastering, and cover art: Michael W. Dean. Cover art includes some astrophotography I did of the … Continue reading "“Microtonal Loud Rock Synth Pop Ambient Symphonic Delight” – Album 87 by BipTunia. LISTEN FREE"

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New Bomb article / interview out on “Perfect Sound...

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2023/12/01

Perfect Sound Forever is the longest running online music mag ever, been going since 1995. Two new Bomb things drop on there today, One is a 13,500 word article “Bomb’s first two (and best) albums: To Elvis In Hell and Hits of Acid Plus, (the never-before told story of) how Bomb got kicked off of … Continue reading "New Bomb article / interview out on “Perfect Sound Forever”"

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My favorite recent non-astro photos

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2023/11/08

This is neighbor’s barn cat, Miss Priss, living her best life in our garden by our pasture. She sure is a true autumn. Cell phone pic, SOOC, no filters.

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My pix of Triangulum Galaxy and Orion Nebula

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2023/10/19

Both 1470 mm. (Celestron EdgeHD 8″, ZWO ASI2600MC, Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro, plus OAG. Bortle 2.) ORION, 38 MIN, includes some detail in core (rarely seen) plus shows Trapezium Cluster (very rarely seen) Triangulum Galaxy, 1 hour 32 min.

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@Microtonal_Cats (Michael W. Dean / BipTunia /...

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2023/10/13

@Microtonal_Cats (Michael W. Dean / BipTunia / Intergalactic Prairie Studio ) #astrophotography New tab (astrobin.com): has some new AP: Crescent Nebula 4 hours integration on Celestron EdgeHD 8″: MOOOOOON:

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500 mm DSLR lens for 100 dollars

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2023/10/09

Get the lens here. Pix I took at some distance of magpies on our farm. Magpies are smarter than a 3 year old kid. Pix are OK. “Not great, not terrible.” But you know, 100 bucks for 500 freakin’ MM!!! –Michael W. Dean

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New feature: Streaming Radio BipTunia on YouTube

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2023/10/04

Radio BipTunia 24/7 eternal random YouTube stream. Copy it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD0llYRZPcc Bookmark it: BipTunia music, some Microtonal. BipTunia music, some Microtonal. BipTunia will appeal to fans of Gary Numan, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, Helios Creed, Captain Beefheart, The Residents, Kraftwerk, Terry Riley, Frank Zappa, Sonic Youth, Devo, Butthole Surfers, Chrome, Young Marble … Continue reading "New feature: Streaming Radio BipTunia on YouTube"

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A couple new quick Astro pix with my new AstroCam

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2023/07/15

Got a ZWO ASI2600MC Pro USB3. VAST improvement over shooting with DSLR, even modded good DSLR. Butterfly Nebula in Cygnus, 44 minutes integration (I’ll be doing much longer, these were tests.): Pelican Nebula and North American Nebula in Cygnus, 29 minutes (!): Location in the sky of the Butterfly Nebula: Plate solved Pelican Nebula and … Continue reading "A couple new quick Astro pix with my new AstroCam"

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FreakBone-9000, experimental beta wild sounding...

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2023/05/02

DOWNLOAD FreakBone 9000 beta VST2 HERE (2.5 meg zip) FreakBone 9000 is a crazy intentionally messy sounding microtonal VST2 synth based on Microtone 5000. But moving the Mod Wheel on your controller activates the oddness. Demo MP3 link of FreakBone 9000 above. (It has a different VST ID, so won’t interfere with any projects you’ve … Continue reading "FreakBone-9000, experimental beta wild sounding microtonal VST2 (and WHY THIS VST is VST2 only)"

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ON TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO SAY “XENHARMONIC” INSTEAD...

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2023/04/21

— (Posted on two Microtonal / Xenharmonic Facebook groups, one here has a lot of comments with all sorts of takes on this) I see a lot of energy devoted to that here, and elsewhere by people here. I know the difference, and I know why Xen is more specific, (can be less than 12 … Continue reading "ON TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO SAY “XENHARMONIC” INSTEAD OF “MICROTONAL.”"

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I made a new free Microtonal VST: MICROTONE 5000

MICHAEL W. DEAN ·

2023/04/04

MICROTONE 5000, new free Microtonal VST. 64-bit Windows. New from BipTunia Synths: https://biptunia.com/?p=10403 MICROTONE 5000 is a VST3 and VST2 Polyphonic analog-style synth with 5000 microtonal tunings (also has western 12-TET setting), 128 presets (also can be user configured), 2 oscillators, 2 filters, 1 LFO, 7 LFO assigns, and 6 voices. It has very low … Continue reading "I made a new free Microtonal VST: MICROTONE 5000"

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