ChileanTaco
Sub-Adult Member
- Beardie name(s)
- Taco
I might have to disappoint you: You won't see muchI consider that a bad azz job. I wish I had gone into something like that. Especially anything to do with space or space exploration. Even in a support role, heck I'd climb up there and clean lens if they promised to let me peek through it after![]()
For the nice images you might have seen in books, or online, or on TV: These are real, but they are heavily postprocessed, usually from combining images through various filter bands to make a color image, and to add multiple images next to each other to cover a wider area.
The best view for "hobby enthusiasts", in my opinion, is using a medium-sized telescope through which one actually can peek (or connect a camera suitable for hobby astrophotography), and go to a very dark location, like a visitor's platform below a big telescope, or joining a public outing with a university. To far away for you
(Btw.: I sometimes had the opportunity to take visitors with me into the control room during night when observing at Keck. I warned them before what to expect, to not be disappointed.)
Last edited: