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Old 21-06-2023, 08:15 AM
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Call me old fashioned, but that feels like cheating to me. If an AI / machine learned tool goes and does all the work for you, would there be any sense of achievement?

I feel that the hobby would devolve to picking a random target from a catalogue, pressing the 'Go" button and waiting for the image to appear on the big screen. Doesn't seem like much of a challenge to me.

I do astrophotography because it's difficult. I enjoy the challenge of teasing out an image of something that's invisible (and a huge distance away) with the equipment I have from the location I am in. I would get totally bored of it, very quickly, if all I had to do was push a button and wait for a Hubble-quality image to appear.

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Originally Posted by glend View Post
And if it can produce great light pollution rejection in locations like Brisbane, Gold Coast, etc, using AI enhancement, imagine the growth in astronomy as a hobby.
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