Posted: Mar 29, 2020 9:58 am
i have no avatar wrote:2020 March 29: A 212-Hour Exposure of Orion
(mouse over, with brightness / contrast change ?)
Nice, but some people will rush out and buy a telescope (probably a piss poor one) and expect to look through it and see something like this, and quickly lose interest. Then they form a bad opinion of astronomy. Even if one had a 12” Dobsonian of the highest quality the visual results won’t be anything at all like this. Yes, they will ignore the years of data accumulation, and mosaic composition. I’d loved to see a side by side of this and a single short exposure scaled to match.
RS