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Shall I move this to the CodeProject.AI forum? 
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Naturally lighted. As is.
Last year, about this time, we went exploring in the Mariana Trench and I turned off all the lights inside and out, then took this picture.
Pure, unadulterated beauty. Mariana, Mariana, here is your trench in all its natural beauty for all to see.
A bull whale came by looking for giant squid and stopped to check us out. With the lights on he looked like a shrunken rag with deep folds. With the lights off he looked natural. Oh Mariana.
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Are you sure that is not your bathroom at night, with the lights off and the door closed?
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Actually the DSV (Deep Submergence Vehicle) does not belong to me. But the camera does. It was a small camera that I bought at Walmart and I was taking photos with it. When we were below the light penetration depth, barely into the trench, not at the bottom of the deepest part, a male (bull) whale came by looking at us with our lights on. He left the area before I recalled that I had a camera with me. Later I thought that this would be a nice picture. I wanted to know if there was any light at all at that depth and I tested this picutre and found it to be totally black. It is real. This is the Marianas Trench at night, near to the top of the trench.
Again, this is not all the way down at the deepest part. My friends with the DSV said that they had never seen any whales that deep. Only the male whales go down to the trench and then they only go a little deeper, I do not remember how much more: maybe 1/2 mile or so. The US Navy knows how deep the whales go since the US Navy goes everywhere in the ocean, everywhere.
You guys have helped me a lot here. Maybe in a year or so when I go back, I might take some of you with me as long as there is room in the DSV. It is a big commercial DSV used by some deep sea platform builders that I used to supply water-proof concrete to. In case you wondered, regular concrete, here in the US, is not suited for this. The concrete that we sold to them was mixed with powdered volcanic ash which has tiny enough granules to make the concrete water-proof.
Although, as you seem to have suggested, this entire account with all of my information might be just some 14 year old kid making up stories on a much used computer, and when the neighbors come over after school we might laugh at how the adults fall for this stuff tell us secrets of how to program like a professional. Except for the part about my learning C and C++. I really am learning C and C++, or am I even doing that? You don't know.
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space heater is certainly needed. At least now I have a window view as opposed to the last job which was flickering light he double toothpicks.
To err is human to really elephant it up you need a computer
modified 7-Mar-22 11:00am.
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...on the ratchet strap role-playing a tie rod. 
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I was about to say Congrats before opening the post.
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Nice cave... I hope you don't leave in a building with a lot of neighbours  
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Loud enough?
Real programmers use butterflies
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If the floor shakes with each drum beat and the down stairs neighbors have not called Management then yes it is loud enough. By the way if you like Classical I recommend playing Beethoven's Fifth at 1.5x even 2x normal speed which can be done via YouTube. I found it surprisingly more pleasurable even exciting then the usual ponderous performance. If I recall correctly it was George Solti who believed it should be played faster but who stated he didn't have the courage to do so. - cheerio
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Didn't Bugs Bunny do that with Beethoven's 5th? 
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Not the best photo but my hairdo is the COVID special right now and you don't get to see it, so all you get is this old photo of me.
Silver on the left.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Beautiful though nd your right but caterpillars turn to butterflies first!!
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Canyon de Chelly Arizona 1977
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Looks like you just used your first goto.......just kidding. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I treated myself to an observatory (and another new scope)! It's currently sitting in a temporary location, need to move it about 10m to the right on a new deck that I have not had built yet. Took long enough to get here, shipped it from Canada to Cyprus, ordered in July 2020 and arrived early January 2021.
So much better than having to setup and tear down all my gear ever night. We have had some real heavy rain and high winds the last couple of days and when I checked inside this morning, the scope was still dry, so that's off to a good start
You can see a bit more about it in the video below, and the first night I had imaging from it using another new toy, a RASA 11" astrograph. I went for another first for me over to Orion Nebula.
First night in the dome. First light on the RASA11. First visit to M42 Orion Nebula - YouTube
modified 17-Feb-21 14:00pm.
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I think you meant this reply for the OP, not me. 
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I had no idea personal observatories were a thing. That's so cool!
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You wouldn't believe some of them on Youtube. They are amazing, some of the ones people are building are the size of triple garages with rolling roofs, or built on top of their houses. Just search youtube for home observatory or rolling roof observatory.
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I am so, so jealous.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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