Hello all..
Recently Prof Leon Geljon and myself dugnsuz Phd caught up over a few vino collapsos down here in SA to debate the ethics of astro-imaging.
I proposed that in our quest for maximum automation such as autoguiding and computer control etc, a large degree of the creative element has been lost from our great hobby and we are are ultimately chasing the best mathematical histogram instead of the aesthetic!
Prof leon responded with an interesting response - he felt that one day, very soon there will be a commercial product which takes our 20x 30 second exposures and stacks them in-camera then spits out a final optimally processed product. I had to agree with his vision of the future.
But my original question remained - where is the creativity in our quest for the best image? In the technical setup of our scopes or the processing of the data??
leon thought it lay in the setup, tracking etc.
This question is now open to peer review!
I attach a pic of this momentous meeting!!
Doug
ps... great to finally meet up leon
