Re: Take a look at this Saturn shot

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Date: 01/08/05 

Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 12:35:31 +0000 (UTC)

Al Roarke <jemail@wspam.com> wrote:

> "Martin R. Howell" <martinhowell@ilikestarsisp.com> wrote in message
> news:23h1qub88qge$.1wlq33t6880z0$.dlg@40tude.net...
>>
>> When I made the following statement in my reply to this thread: "I am an
>> amateur astronomer. . .," it was given to allude to the fact that personal
>> enjoyment of the discipline can be fully realized without becoming a
>> quasi-professional astro photographer. In my opinion, the persuit of
>> "incredible" images like the one cited in the original post are certainly
>> very nice but not necessary to the enjoyment of the hobby. Anybody who
>> points their scope to the sky and smiles at what they see or image (with
>> ANY level of success) should be justly proud of themselves.

> I agree. For some folks, probably the majority, they'd much rather see
> something through the eyepiece than look at a picture or image. No webcam,
> nor any other camera that I'm aware of, can begin to match the human eye's
> ability to focus at very fast rates. I guess that's why planets always look
> best visually.

> Personally, I've never dabbled in astrophotography. I've owned an old
> Edmund 8" reflector for many, many years on their heavy cast mount.
> Although the webcam has greatly improved the resolution of those once blurry
> planetary photos of the 60's, I'd still rather visually observe those subtle
> Jovian markings or spot the Encke division of Saturn, even it it's only for
> a few seconds.

> BTW, I see that both individuals, Peach and Todd, have now posted less
> processed images. I think a lot of it depends on how good the individual
> frames are, but I think they look better than they did.

Undoubtedly. But Todd's comment :

"less processing needed done due to better seeing."

reveals the misunderstanding of what processing is supposed
to do. The exact opposite should be done :
worse seing means less processing allowed.

-- francois meyer
http://dulle.free.fr/alidade/galerie.php?maxim=12

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