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Originally Posted by Steffen
My rig is a simple visual one (just an Alt-Az mounted Mak and a laptop with assorted planetarium software) and I enjoy finding things and looking at them with my own eyes. Whenever I have an urge for colourful images with a lot of detail I can .........
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.......... look them up on the internet
I find visual observing to be a personal and in some way intimate experience, whilst images on a computer screen to be rather the opposite.
Many a time i have viewed objects directly and then later looked them up online to compare what I was seeing, but I have never had the urge to spend 10's of thousands of dollars attempting to match the quality of images I can access online for free
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I cannot possibly ever beat what's on offer there, so why should I spends thousands of dollars trying?
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Yup thats what I reckon too