Introduction

I'm a 20-year old Physics major. Twenty years old and I'm stuck in my childhood. But in a positive way, I guess. Since I was a kid, I've wanted to study science and astronomy. And at the same time I've always wanted to become a Power Ranger. ALWAYS. That's why I named this blog, Astro Sentai.

In case you didn't know, the Power Rangers series came from the Japanese TV series Super Sentai. The term sentai was commonly used during the second world war, referring to small military units in Japan. Each year, a new Super Sentai arrives to protect the Earth from the forces of evil. Before the show Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers came to the Philippines, Filipinos avidly watched Bioman, Liveman, Fiveman, and Jetman. All of these were part of the Super Sentai franchise.

Stretching this introduction a bit longer, I'll tell you about the 35th Super Sentai, the Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger. They can transform into whatever Super Sentai character that they want to, making them the greatest Super Sentai that ever existed. They're space pirates looking for the greatest treasure in the universe. As a Physicist and Astronomer, this, very much, is a summary of what I want to do someday. Hopefully I will be able to discover something cool. Or perhaps make the first Power Ranger system in real life.

But for now I'll be focusing on Image processing and write about it, as required by my Applied Physics 186 professor. I've already taken three elective classes as a part of the BS Physics curriculum. This class is actually an extra elective class, and I just wanted to have a class that would require me to make a blog. I could have just made a blog and not take this course, but then I won't have the drive to make a quality blog.

Anyways, from time to time you'll be reading astronomy related discussions and articles. I took this class to learn the techniques that I need to process my astro images. As an astrophotographer, I use different softwares to process and enhance my images. I might discuss these softwares in parallel with what I would be learning from this class and compare the advantage (and disadvantage) of processing images using a personal program.

During this semester, I'll be constructing an auto-guiding setup for my telescope. I'll discuss this sometime to give you an overview of what I'll be doing for the final project.

That would be all for now!