Andrew C
05-07-2010, 09:29 PM
As a person interested in amateur astronomy for some years and trying to follow some of the more esoteric threads that compare different techniques and kinds of equipment, I am often left feeling a little inadequate.
It would be very interesting for me and perhaps others if there were something like an Ice in Space reference or wiki that authoritatively presented and compared in one place the different technologies for telescopes, eyepieces, mounts, cameras, sensors, filters, software techniques and the like. I am thinking of this not so much between different manufacturers (as that is often contentious and subjective), but at the general technology level as it has developed over the past couple of decades, and as hitherto professional or high end hardware has become more accessible to us general amateurs with reducing prices and advanced design and manufacturing.
These things are covered superficially in text books, and in minute detail at a thread level between people who are right at the forefront with the latest at any given moment, but I am sure the collective and distilled knowledge and wisdom of the Ice in Space community could produce something really helpful along these lines.
Has this thought come up before?
Cheers,
Andrew
It would be very interesting for me and perhaps others if there were something like an Ice in Space reference or wiki that authoritatively presented and compared in one place the different technologies for telescopes, eyepieces, mounts, cameras, sensors, filters, software techniques and the like. I am thinking of this not so much between different manufacturers (as that is often contentious and subjective), but at the general technology level as it has developed over the past couple of decades, and as hitherto professional or high end hardware has become more accessible to us general amateurs with reducing prices and advanced design and manufacturing.
These things are covered superficially in text books, and in minute detail at a thread level between people who are right at the forefront with the latest at any given moment, but I am sure the collective and distilled knowledge and wisdom of the Ice in Space community could produce something really helpful along these lines.
Has this thought come up before?
Cheers,
Andrew