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  • Mostly mediocre "astronomy" shots in this contest

    From RichA@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 16 18:03:51 2021
    Getting so tired of:
    -Stars and landscapes.
    -hyper-color saturated nebula shots
    -Detail-less brilliant green aurora shots.

    The rest are just ho-hum.

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  • From newshound@21:1/5 to RichA on Sat Sep 18 21:59:46 2021
    On 17/09/2021 02:03, RichA wrote:
    Getting so tired of:
    -Stars and landscapes.
    -hyper-color saturated nebula shots
    -Detail-less brilliant green aurora shots.

    The rest are just ho-hum.

    I do know what you mean in general. Not sure if you mean this contest

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/58594977

    but I did rather like the rocket and the meteor shots, even though they
    were achieved by good luck. And the youngster's composite, and the 360
    degree "milky way" were both quite imaginative.

    I still find it astonishing that amateurs with relatively modest
    equipment in light-polluted areas can take both planetary and DSO images
    that are better than could be achieved by Mount Wilson or Mount Palomar
    when I was a youngster in the 1950's.

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  • From RichA@21:1/5 to newshound on Sat Oct 2 18:57:48 2021
    On Saturday, 18 September 2021 at 16:59:52 UTC-4, newshound wrote:
    On 17/09/2021 02:03, RichA wrote:
    Getting so tired of:
    -Stars and landscapes.
    -hyper-color saturated nebula shots
    -Detail-less brilliant green aurora shots.

    The rest are just ho-hum.

    I do know what you mean in general. Not sure if you mean this contest

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/58594977

    but I did rather like the rocket and the meteor shots, even though they
    were achieved by good luck. And the youngster's composite, and the 360
    degree "milky way" were both quite imaginative.

    Gimmicky. Like being near and airport and taking planes crossing the sun.

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  • From newshound@21:1/5 to RichA on Sun Oct 3 12:05:56 2021
    On 03/10/2021 02:57, RichA wrote:
    On Saturday, 18 September 2021 at 16:59:52 UTC-4, newshound wrote:
    On 17/09/2021 02:03, RichA wrote:
    Getting so tired of:
    -Stars and landscapes.
    -hyper-color saturated nebula shots
    -Detail-less brilliant green aurora shots.

    The rest are just ho-hum.

    I do know what you mean in general. Not sure if you mean this contest

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/58594977

    but I did rather like the rocket and the meteor shots, even though they
    were achieved by good luck. And the youngster's composite, and the 360
    degree "milky way" were both quite imaginative.

    Gimmicky. Like being near and airport and taking planes crossing the sun.


    I'd still have been very happy with the rocket shot myself.

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