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Originally Posted by toryglen-boy
I think this in particular is a bad idea, and to be frank, completely goes against what the compendium goes out to achieve.
This for me was a book about "us", where everyone and anyone could contribute, and was encouraged to do so
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Well Duncan you're saying it but you're only telling 1/4 of the story. A book about "US" ? But "US" clearly according to the new rules only encompasses imagers ? So it isn't about "US" its now about "some of us"
Fact is I tried to take astro images before most of the people stickin their name in lights in the almanac knew their arse from their elbow, but sadly I couldn't take pictures worth squat and ended up with about 8,000 km worth of Kodak Ektachrome in the garbage can. But sad thing is it was a whole different world back then and to take decent images you needed to know a lot about astronomy and even more about photography. Now the naive can do decent work with simple equipment, a computer, a lot of time and a 1/4 of a brain. Whilst the the highly skilled still stand absolutely head and shoulders above the pupils, the pupils can easily look halfway clever. What should not be forgotten is the fact that this is a community where we all contribute for people to learn and one discipline should not stand above any other.
Cheers,
John B