(July 7, 2015 at 11:56 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(July 7, 2015 at 11:12 pm)orogenicman Wrote: Thanks, Min. Considering the competition I had, I was very satisfied with my result. In fact, after seeing my image, Alan, the one with the rig in the first picture, e-mail me with compliments, as did Felix. Alan's was very good, but the magnification of his scope is so powerful that it only got a fraction of the field of view my image has. I've always said that magnification isn't everything in astrophotography, and neither is it important to the most expensive optics on the market.
Nature did a great job.
Better than any god.
We were lucky. Skies were bad until about 13:30 A.M. If you are going to do astrophotography you have to be patient and take what you can get. Considering the conditions that night, I think it came out very well.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
