Re: What's your thinking on this?

atasselli@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
AustinMN wrote:
Ioannis wrote:
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Also, although extended objects such as DSOs typically look better through
astrophotography, I don't think this applies to single stars. Single stars
look the best directly. Even the best photos tend to saturate the images of
stars, seriously altering their appearance and cluttering the pic. I think no
photo can capture the divine beauty of single stars as well as the eye does,
in any equipment, including the unaided eye.

To prove your point, I've never seen a photographic image that can come
close to a well-resolved view of a globular cluster. Photographic
stars turn into blobs and run together in a way that does not happen
visually.


Then I guess you've seen very few and bad samples. The eye is a very
poor detector, resolution wise.

Here's an example:

http://faculty.rmwc.edu/tmichalik/glob2.htm

Sorry, but the telescopic views I've had of M15 make that look like
*garbage*. The photo is brighter, but there is nothing like being able
to clearly see that every star, no matter how bright, is a single point
the same size as every other star. I don't recall whether it was M15
or another, but there are globulars where visually one could almost see
through the core. I've never seen a photograph that could do that.

Austin

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