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On 3 Sep, 18:42, "Wilbur Hubbard"
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"jeff" wrote in message
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and instrument:
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ei...ao2_about.html
I just don't get it.
Hi Wilbur,
I like you. So, I will help you to avoid the extreme embarrassement
that you must feel after displaying the enormous ignorance
which your post exposed.
Why would anybody waste their time and money futzing
around with tiny little amateur lenses taking tiny little amateur deep
space
photographs when there are millions of REAL large and detailed photos
available from Hubble alone?
Jeff's photo showed data acquired in x-rays. There is *NO* lens
involved in x-ray photography. Please do not feel stupid
because you did not know this. I'm sure that you are not
alone.
When my dentist points that lens-looking think at my mouth and it buzzes it
directs the x-rays just where they need to go. It might not be a GLASS lense
but there's got to be a lense of some sort in there.
You could look at them your entire life and
not see them all.
Only if your internet connection was extremely slow. If you
only viewed 10 images a day, then you could view the Hubble's
output in a year. I bet that you look at more than 10 images
a day.
Nekkid females - hundreds of photos of them a day. But that's what cameras
are REALLY for.
Seems to me this amateur snapshot-taking becomes more and more of a waste
of
time as time passes and anything but the very large and very large array
telescopes taking photographs is a joke.
Well, here you display the sort of ignorance that makes
me feel embarrassed on your behalf.
I took this photo in just 90 minutes with a 4" telescope.
http://www.astroimaging.org.uk/tener...nal/sh2101.htm
Uh, huh! So what's the big deal. I can look at the sky on a clear night with
my 7X50 binoculars and see all of that crap I want to see.
The Hubble could not have done this in 90 minutes. Can you
figure out why?
That's easy to answer. The Hubble has a very small field of view. My marine
binocs have are 7x50 and the Hubble is probably 7 million by 500 which makes
the picture it takes only a little speck in the sky. I ain't that dumb to
not know the obvious.
But, even worse is when people start bragging about how great their
inferior
little lenses are. There's nothing great about them. They're tiny and
they're a joke. The photos taken by them are tiny, inferior and a joke as
well.
Have a look at this photo:-
http://www.rdelsol.com/Nebula/IC1805_Everest.html
I've seen stuff like that and the horse's head nebula from Hubble and it's
much better. I still say why bother with tiny little lenses? What do you
get. You get a bigger slice of the pie with very little real resolution. A
poor compromise in my opinion.
Isn't it clear that your comments are tiny, inferior and a joke as
well.
Probably only to people who waste their time with tiny little technology and
are defensive about it.
What you are doing is using technology that is on par with two tin cans
and
a string for a telephone. You shoot BB guns and eschew the howitzers. And
you're proud of it? And you're happy with it. I just don't get it.
Perhaps
there's something I'm missing. Perhaps somebody could answer the
question:
"Where's the beef?"
Actually, you are missing the point that amateurs are using the
very latest technology. You do not understand that technology
in optics has made enormous advances in recent years. My
4" refractor can outperform a 20 year old 10" reflector.
Nonsense. It's the size of the lense that determines the amount of light it
gathers. The amount of light it gathers determines how far out it can see.
It just can't collect enough light to see the dim stuff like Hubble can and
does. So when you use the little lenses you become a Mr. Magoo. You only see
stuff that's right in front of your nose magnified a couple or four times.
Seems to me I can look at the heavens on a clear night and just imagine
things are bigger and brighter and I can do as well with my imagination than
people can do taking snapshots with their tiny little lenses.
I hope that you have found my post useful. I don't want
you to look so stupid again.
Thanks for your concern but you failed to sway my mind. But if you enjoy
futzing around with inferior little things then knock yourself out. It's no
skin off my teeth.
Wilbur Hubbard