Recent content by swiggly

No mention of requirements to reduce light pollution.

OK - nice enough but a ways to go from a big flying water heater to Mars....

Indeed! I also wonder why articles like this pick what are often not exactly the better photos. There are plenty of photos out there (even my own) that are better than what they have used. My NEOWISE

FYI, Here is my image of NEOWISE, taken from Oregon on the 14th. Most images blur the tail due to poor tracking and/or use of registration methods not appropriate for moving objects. Neowise 200 mm

My Comet Image: Neowise

Missed the point entirely. The article did not make clear that these are not the actual colors of the object. They HAVE NO actual colors as we know them since it is a radio image. The inexperienced reader is led to believe this is a "rainbow" object which has no meaning for a radio image since...

This is going into my lecture on astrophotography next week as an example of what not to do in a science article that features a false color image. 95% of the public will think these are real colors in the nebula as you would see it with your eyes. Nowhere in the article (unless I missed it) is...