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Trying to dispel myths about astrophotos is a challenge

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 9:12 pm
by jemhouston
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Touching grass is nice, but looking at the stars is better sometimes.

Re: Trying to dispel myths about astrophotos is a challenge

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 10:07 pm
by Micael
It’s so strange how it can look so wonderful, so beautiful, and enticing. Yet at the same time there lurks a feeling of dread in the background. Dread of the vastness, of the implications of our minuteness in relation to the rest of the universe, and dread of purpose.

Re: Trying to dispel myths about astrophotos is a challenge

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2025 11:01 pm
by MikeKozlowski
...Murchison's Eye.

Mike

Re: Trying to dispel myths about astrophotos is a challenge

Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2025 2:19 am
by Poohbah
MikeKozlowski wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 11:01 pm ...Murchison's Eye.

Mike
Gripping hand is, we're on the wrong side of the Coal Sack to see it.

Re: Trying to dispel myths about astrophotos is a challenge

Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2025 11:34 am
by Bob Dedmon
it fries my mind when I start thinking about the vastness of the universe, and then start thinking of the ending of MIB II comparing sizes thinking we could be a particle in an atom from a larger universe.