It’s somehow deeply weird that you can take a camera with a nice but normal-sized zoom lens, point it at space, click the button, and take pictures of other planets. They’re apparently just RIGHT THERE??
Someone gave me a low end celestron. I quickly realized that I was much better off with my $200 tripod, Cannon and 70-300 zoom. Occasionally wonder when the crossover point would be where it would make sense to buy a telescope.
I first took a picture of Jupiter with a digital camera in the mid 2000s, and when I saw what looked like the Galilean moons, I figured I was deluding myself. Until I pulled up Celestia to look up their positions for the date/time I took the photo and found they matched. My mind was blown.
Dear Mr. Munroe We, the church, have had a similar discussion with an italian guy and we would like to inform you that such statements *can* be interpreted as heresy. https://go.nasa.gov/478uE0R
It really is.
Well, now I have to try this.
Well they are really big
Saturn is my favorite.
Don't you know those are fake CGI pictures that NASA sends to your phone when the accelerometer detects that it's pointed up? Everything in the sky is just a blurry light in the firmament. Scientism globetards don't know anything! /s
Pretty hard to aim though, yeah?