#calibration

Late Night Calibrations

Garrus Vakarian x Shep!Reader

Fluff

I walk across the ship at night, wanting to get a late night snack. I see that the Gun Battery’s lights were still on. “Garrus..” I say leaning on the door frame with a disapproving tone. “Commander!” he jumps up. “what are you doing up this late?”

“i should be asking you that.” i rest my hand on his shoulder. “just some calibrations.”

“garrus vakarian, with the amount of time you calibrate the guns, they must be fine!”

“yeah, yeah.”

“garrus, you need sleep.”

“shepard, i need to know we will be safe.”

i huff, “just come to bed, ok? for me?”

he looks at the ground, debating. “ok, fine.”

“but first i need a snack!”

he laughs, “sure sweetie, i’ll make you whatever food you want. just don’t tell vega, he’ll get the…munchies? as he calls it.”

i laugh and hug garrus.

“i love you.”

“i love you too.” i kiss him on his cheek.

“now, food! i’m starved!”

They look kinda similar, yeah?

And if Tony had survived Endgame, he and Garrus would have worn not only similar visors but also scars on the right side of their faces.

Both followed in their fathers’ footsteps

Served in the “international police”

They are both combat engineers

And always calibrate

Both don’t give a damn sometimes

And both are hecking cool and handsome

Dark calibration images help eliminate noise from unevenly distributed light. Dark calibration images are helpful in calibrating a flat or data image because they remove thermal signal at a specific temperature and time frame, reducing thermal noise. Dark images are used to for calibration after they are properly selected by eliminating the bad options.

A flat image is an evenly illuminated image created by combining multiple pictures of a certain object. Calibration enables all of the pixels to have the same reaction to each photon. Flats strengthen the image quality, reducing noise and removing distracting details. Dust, for example, should be minimized through calibration. "Dust donuts" appear when dust particles are present on the lens or the telescope mirror. Here is an example of a flat image

Lazy Astronomy

Even when the light source is even, the image captured will not display an even amount of light. We choose the median combine mode to exclude the differences between the multiple pictures. It also reduces the outliers that would otherwise appear by just using the average mode. Outliers are abnormalities that would not occur within the perfect shot of a space object. It is important not to make pixels too bright or too dim. Images with pixel brightness between 22,000 counts and 38,000 counts are ideal for flats. Images outside this brightness range are considered "bad" and should be removed from this file, but placed into another file. Keeping "bad" files in another file is beneficial because a creator may need to explain what photos they removed from the final equation and why.

And on goes the (annual?) tradition(?) of Calibration-themed Exalted comics! After an exhausting day, Red comes home to a surprise!

This might be my longest Exalted comic ever, and it's packed with references and jokes from previous comics, and name-drops a few characters that I don't think have made an appearance on this site yet.