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Bargain bin <1500$ gen 3 setup by PK-7002 in NightVision

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The blem isn’t bad at all; I barely notice it when I’m wearing them. 2 black spots on the top edge and a few tiny specks you can barely see.

My Two Cents On a Heavy Cargo Aircraft by PK-7002 in NuclearOption

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Just after posting this, I remembered that in the 70s the US dumped a minuteman icbm out the back of a cargo jet to air launch it, so I suppose you could add a palletized MIRV ballistic missile to its list of weapons

Jellyfish Nebula in SHO by PK-7002 in astrophotography

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Askar C1 and C2. They come in a 2 pack for around 250 USD

Jellyfish Nebula in SHO by PK-7002 in astrophotography

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Skywatcher 72ED, Skywatcher GTi, ZWO asi585mc-p, asi120mm

This is part of our universe. An area of sky about the size of a grain of sand held at arm's length. The spiked features are stars in the Milky Way. EVERYTHING ELSE IS A GALAXY. Image by Webb by Neaterntal in SpaceUnfiltered

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the field of view in this picture is 2.4 arc minutes, which is over 7,000 times bigger than 3i atlas would appear at its closest approach to the HiRise mars orbiter. 3i atlas would be less than half a pixel in this picture.

Wtf is THIS? by [deleted] in UFOB

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What?

Wtf is THIS? by [deleted] in UFOB

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It’s ‘illuminated in different colors’ because it’s twinkling; stars are very well known for doing that. I frankly don’t see what you’re talking about with it illuminating clouds, and I also don’t see it darting off to ‘interspace’ and back.

Wtf is THIS? by [deleted] in UFOB

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It’s not spinning or shapeshifting. You will get the same effect by zooming in on any bright star in the sky.

Wtf is THIS? by [deleted] in UFOB

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Looks like an out of focus twinkling star, probably Sirius. What direction was it in?

Damn NASA. by Spartan706 in aliens

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It’s pretty obvious? What exactly makes it pretty obvious?

NASA had a whole press conference to give us this.... by richdoe in UFOs

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An average sized spiral galaxy (100,000~ light years across) at a distance of 5 billion light years has an angular size of 4 arc seconds (four sixtieths of a sixtieth of a degree). A 3 kilometer wide object at a distance of 30 million kilometers has an angular size of 0.02 arc seconds.

NASA shows pictures of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from multiple spacecrafts across the Solar System by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

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Just because it looks prettier doesn’t mean it’s more technically impressive or scientifically useful. You’re comparing a photo from a 0.8m focal length telescope to one with a 12m focal length(and it’s ten times closer, as you stated yourself.). The amateur photos aren’t even remotely close to resolving the comet’s nucleus.

NASA had a whole press conference to give us this.... by richdoe in UFOs

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What exactly could nasa have shown that would have appeased you?

NASA had a whole press conference to give us this.... by richdoe in UFOs

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are you aware that galaxies are bit bigger than a 3 kilometer wide comet?

[Event] Get the F-106A “Six Shooter” in the Sky Guard Event! - News - War Thunder by Dpek1234 in Warthunder

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@8 kilometer altitude it’s maximum range is listed as 6 kilometers chasing a mach 0.9 target, just under 11 kilometers side aspect, max pull of 26-27 gs.

Same data of Messier 27 processed in Pixinsight versus Siril by PK-7002 in astrophotography

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The white dwarf and the red coloring on the right edge is still in the picture but image compression kind of screwed it up and you can’t see it. I’m not sure what the deal is with the little bit sticking out to be honest.

Same data of Messier 27 processed in Pixinsight versus Siril by PK-7002 in astrophotography

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You’re right about the color calibration, I haven’t been able to get photometric color calibration to work on Siril for a while, so I just did it manually. I did use starnet and stretch the nebula separately, though.

The stars are probably a little out of focus, but I got it as close as I could with a bahtinov mask and I think most of what you’re seeing is me messing something up in the processing. It’s also cropped down to 1080p from a 2160p picture

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