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Had a guy at the observatory open house tell me my stacked photo was 'cheating' because I used software
He stood there for ten minutes lecturing me about how real astrophotographers do it on film while I just stood there holding my Nikon and a flask of coffee wondering if he knew the Hubble Space Telescope uses digital processing too, has anyone else run into these analog purists at public events?
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lauras8322h ago
Oh man, that's priceless! I had a similar thing happen at a star party once where this older guy told me my tracked mount was basically "astrophotography with training wheels" while he was fumbling with a manual barn door tracker and a DSLR from 2008. I just nodded and sipped my tea while thinking about how even Ansel Adams dodged and burned his prints in the darkroom, which is basically the same as stacking and processing. The nerve of some people acting like using modern tools makes your work less valid, especially at a public event where you're supposed to be sharing the hobby.
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blakem3717h ago
Heard a buddy tell me this exact thing happened to him at a local astronomy club meetup. He was showing off this killer shot of the Orion Nebula he stacked with DeepSkyStacker, and this old timer walks up and goes "real astrophotographers use film and a darkroom, not a computer." My buddy just laughed it off, pointed at the guy's modern telescope with GoTo tracking on it, and asked if that was cheating too. Guy walked away muttering about "kids these days" while my friend poured himself another coffee from his thermos, totally unfazed.
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