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Originally Posted by Rob_K
I fell through the mirror the other night.....
Astro-imaging has fallen from its fad status of the early 2000’s, killed by a glut of new-generation cheap cameras and software that enabled any mug to produce Hubble-quality images with no effort or knowledge at all. These images threatened to sink internet astronomy forums with their sheer volume but in the end no-one was impressed and few people bothered anymore..... -
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Sorry Rob, i believe you are way off base. The new generation cameras and software are true enablers. As one of your so called Mugs, and having come from a film background, i can testify to the new gears significantly reduced workload. Go and have a look at early film based astro images. I don't know if there are many imagers seeking to impress, more likely it is the challenge of what can be done from a backyard observatory. There should be room for everyone, regardless of how the tools evolve. The degree of technical understanding required to image today, with those cheap cameras and software, is way more difficult than printing a photo negative and holding back the Trapezium exposure with a wand.