My memory is as good as ever - thank you very much, Mr. Watson !! I won't venture to suggest catching YOU on the downside is as rare as an eclipse, but it does happen and should reside in everyone's memory for all eternity (and that is a verrra long time). If and when we meet on the other side, I will still ask you if you know the difference between M13 and M92. You might know a little more by then :) I agree with both Chuck and Joe (and thanks Joe for corrobor ation of my 1991 observation - MAYBE now Brent will accept it snicker snicker - as it comes from a man. He wouldn't take my identification of M13 until Scott Crosby - a man- agreed with me ). In all seriousness, the "over" processing of digital photos should be a real concern. There are some fantastic images out there, but the question is - are they real. Has the photographer processed the image in such a way as to add "detail" that doesn't really exist in reality. Can that misinformation lead us astray as to what is really going on? As a side note on the subject, personal observation still stands equal to if not better than a photograph.
Yes, Joan, the memory is a great repository for images. It does from time to time begin to contain abberations, but there are moments that just seem to stick in one's memory - like the mis-identification of a globular or part of a galaxy. (You do know how to identify M31, do you not?) The better images in my repository are more valuable than a good view of M92 (or was it M13?) Not that I don't have images stored from the thousands of observing hours, but there are better images that can never be stored in digital format nor even film. Images like walking my beautiful daughter down the aisle at her wedding, or chasing a steam locomotive to get video for my son, or flying with my three air traffic controller sons in my airplane and listening to their comments after botched ATC instructions and handling to an ILS approach, or traveling to Yellowstone on a day trip with my youngest beautiful daughter, or ..... From: "jcarman6@q.com" <jcarman6@q.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 2:28 PM Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Eye v. Camera My memory is as good as ever - thank you very much, Mr. Watson !! I won't venture to suggest catching YOU on the downside is as rare as an eclipse, but it does happen and should reside in everyone's memory for all eternity (and that is a verrra long time). If and when we meet on the other side, I will still ask you if you know the difference between M13 and M92. You might know a little more by then :) I agree with both Chuck and Joe (and thanks Joe for corrobor ation of my 1991 observation - MAYBE now Brent will accept it snicker snicker - as it comes from a man. He wouldn't take my identification of M13 until Scott Crosby - a man- agreed with me ). In all seriousness, the "over" processing of digital photos should be a real concern. There are some fantastic images out there, but the question is - are they real. Has the photographer processed the image in such a way as to add "detail" that doesn't really exist in reality. Can that misinformation lead us astray as to what is really going on? As a side note on the subject, personal observation still stands equal to if not better than a photograph.
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