Viewing V's Imaging

[mickoking]

Originally Posted by mickoking

100% visual. Hassle free, real time, real object Astronomy

To be more accurate I have done some imaging (very little) but visual is overwhelmingly my path in this great hobby

[fringe_dweller]

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Strangely enough that 10% of visual time occupies my memory more than a piccy ever does. I usually remember something for how it looks rather than how I photographed it. But when I get old, senile and forgetful I'll be lookin at the pictures.

I agree with that statement, I have an excellent library of comet and other visual images ( brighter than usual comets through Binocs of all kinds figure prominently ) in the memory bank - and I find these much more long sustaining and impressive than any 2 dimensional image. I feel detatched from most images I have ever taken, like a passenger.
But I appreciate both types of AA of course, both have their merits and good points.
I find strictly visual sessions extremely relaxing, liberating and floaty - as opposed to the mad, work like nature, stress and pandemonium of imaging - but in the end final results of imaging are also very, very enjoyable to me, and a great thing to share.
But I also usually try to do both at the same time.
PS , also with visual, writing down a report for yourself for the future, can be as good or better than any image in sparking memories back to life
drawings also come under this..

[circumpolar (Matt)]

Originally Posted by fringe_dweller

PS , also with visual, writing down a report for yourself for the future, can be as good or better than any image in sparking memories back to life
drawings also come under this..

I decided to sketch what I saw through my binos of c/2006 A1 on 13 Feb.
It was my first time sketching. The next day I odtained a detailed starmap of the area with the comet included and it matched my drawing exactly (the comet looked like a fuzzy star through the binos). The stars and comet combined to make a trapizium shape.

I will never forget my first sketch!

[lost_in_space]

Visual only at this stage, but only because I do not have the camera or the nouse to get into imaging yet.

[cometcatcher (Kevin)]

Originally Posted by fringe_dweller

I find strictly visual sessions extremely relaxing, liberating and floaty - as opposed to the mad, work like nature, stress and pandemonium of imaging...

I can so relate to that. Must be why I tend to enjoy our astronomy club's viewing nights where we just relax and look at stuff. By comparison I don't think I ever get through an imaging session without swearing a lot! You have me wondering why I do it now. The pretty piccies I guess.

[fringe_dweller]

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

You have me wondering why I do it now.

!!!..for your fellow comet/sprite/astro appreciation friends here!

I think of it as just another different type of fun

[iceman (Mike)]

I mainly do planetary imaging at home, but every new moon or when we go out to our dark sky site, I only ever do visual.

It's tough balancing act, because I like doing both so I'm trying to find a happy medium.

[ving (David)]

hmm... these days its 100% visual, but i have dabbled in pics in the past and will dabble in the future....
i put 90% visual

[Lester]

70 visual & 30 imaging. Like the challenge of capturing what cannot be seen visually. Use to do a lot with film, hypering in the 1980; then as the family grew didn't have the money or time to put into my hobby. Now getting into digital and computers, so got to start from scratch as far as the processing goes.

In the past didn't have the help like I have been getting here with IIS.

can't sleep now; tooooooo much to learn

[Rodstar (Rod)]

100% visual for me, for much the same reasons as Wavelandscott stated, except with my LX200. I really couldn't really be bothered with imaging when there is so much to look at with my eyes.

I bought the LX200 with the idea that when I am ready, I can get into imaging. At this stage, if I want a pretty picture, Hubble or this website keeps me satisfied.

[sheeny (Al)]

In the past I have always been 100% visual. Only in this last year that I've got a scope again and getting back into it that I've started with imaging. So at the moment its about 70% imaging and 30% visual, cause I'm trying to make every opportunity count to learn about imaging... I am intrigued and like to learn, and I find it very challenging, but also very frustrating at times (usually just that the results are not as good as I'd hoped!)

If I ever manage set up an observatory, I might a) improve my imaging and b) do more of it, otherwise I expect I'll gradually drift back to more visual than imaging.

Al.

[Miaplacidus (Brian)]

It could be that there is something appealingly poetic in the idea of a photon travelling uninterruptedly for millions or even billions of years to finally extinguish itself forever on one of the rods in my retina.

Or it could be that I'm lazy.

Brian.