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Originally Posted by Stu Ward
Nice images.
Being a cynic, how do you know these are actually your images and not just some that have been pulled out of a library ?
I'm sure that a paying customer gets real time on the scope. But a triallist might get a simulation ???
Stu
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No stu, that's the exact same thing I thought.
Thing is though, I'm certain it's legit. When I first tried to take a picture, it failed because the moon was in the way. Had to abort the mission.
I also had a look at M51 pictures taken using the same GRAS telescope by another IIS user a little while back (they were also using free time). The differences between mine and theirs were noticeable (especially the satellite trail).
It'd also have to be clever enough to fake "cloud" images for bad or intermittent weather.
Also consider that M51 has got the supernova in it. if they were using stock images, it'd have to be recent stock images.
To carefully orchestrate a series of "fake" images to fool newbies would actually be more work than just using the scope itself.
Besides, it wouldn't be good for business if they used stock images and got caught out.