Scattered Thoughts . . .

My health is still quite lousy, overall, and has been this way since January.  I believe that Sheila and I both contracted this pandemic virus and, lately, I've been bouncing back and forth between fever and fever-free.  Sheila recovered relatively quickly but I'm struggling to recover.  That isn't much of a surprise, however, considering my primary health issues.   Needless to say, I've had very little energy to accomplish anything of significance.  Actually, I've been doing a lot of sleeping.  On the rare occasion when I'm feeling well enough to think clearly, one of the things I have done is revisit some old lunar images I shot from our yard.   In this case, about two years ago, I shot a series of images with the intent of stacking the images to create a super-resolution final image.  This is a post-processing technique similar to high-resolution pixel shift technology in some cameras that produces high resolution images.  It works fairly well if done cor

A week or so ago, I had written about having problems with our old home theater receiver. We had upgraded our television to 4K HDR but we found that our home theater receiver would not pass through a 4K signal. There were some other little quirks with that older receiver so I opted to purchase a new Sony Surround Sound Bar system.  I've been using this new Sony system for a few days now so I figured I would write a little about it now.  The first thing I noticed about this new sound system is it is very simplified compared to the controls of the old home theater receiver. This is good and bad. I'm not going to get into any detail here but being simplified is very much a positive and this part of it was very welcomed. That old home theater receiver made it difficult to tweak the sound because the controls were in the form of menus inside of menus inside of menus with no graphical interface. The sound quality of this new sound system is quite good. Most noticeably is that