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Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by inaros »

austinthetaco wrote: post #129
inaros wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> Under the assumption that amazon has decided to astroturf on this niche tech news site Even Microsoft astroturfs here... Satya Nadella, Microsoft FY2019 Q1 earnings call [1]: “In fact, this morning, I was reading a news article in Hacker News, which is a community where we have been working hard to make sure that Azure is growing in popularity and I was pleasantly surprised to see that we have made a lot of progre…

there is a stark difference between a division aimed at developers attempting to astroturf on a tech industry (mostly developer) news aggregator and a movie studio.

Its a whole industry with hundreds of employees and thousands of bots: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520761

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by dotancohen »

inaros wrote: post #106
vintagedave wrote: post #34

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I'm curious how the starless versions are created. From the steps at the end, I couldn't see a 'this is how stars are removed' step. Maybe it's part of stacking (but most stars would remain present?) or the calibration process treating stars as noise?

>> I'm curious how the starless versions are created. Its done with using dedicated astrophotography software (StarXTerminator). Example: https://astrobackyard.com/starnet-astrophotography/ So these are more artistic photo works than real science photos... Rod Prazeres the Astrophotographer, has given this interview where he talks about the process: https://www.astronomy.com/observing/the-astrophotography-of-...

  > So these are more artistic photo works than real science photos...
I disagree. If there are many flies around a statue, and I photograph the statue but remove the flies in the photo (via AI or any other technique), then I'm still producing an image of something that exists in the world - exactly as it appears in the world.

I agree that the claim "no generative AI used" is technically incorrect, but I do feel that the image does not contain any AI-hallucinated content and therefore is an accurate representation of reality. These structures appear in the image exactly as they exist in nature.

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by 9dev »

qingcharles wrote: post #104
alistairSH wrote: post #50

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As a general rule, always read the book first. In this case, that holds true - there was too much in the book to cover completely in the movie. It's a pretty quick read as well - you could probably bang it out in a long afternoon, if you were inclined. That said, I never read Harry Potter and can't imagine going back and reading it now. So, YMMV.

I watched the Harry Potter movies first and then read the books and thoroughly enjoyed the books, and the movies didn't spoil them at all.

They might be a special case considering the audience, books, author, actors, and the movies themselves grew alongside each other; it’s pretty singular, I think.

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by rpastro »

sp4cec0wb0y wrote: post #122
rpastro wrote: post #111

Hey everyone, I’m the astrophotographer, but I’m not OP. I’m assuming OP picked up my article and posted here and that’s ok! So I quickly created an account here to comment. Having a quick read through the comments I just want to say thank you for the kind words! Please follow my IG ( https://www.instagram.com/deepskyjourney ) to see more of my photography, and the reddit article if you want to drop a comment with an…

Did you sell the rights the image exclusively or will you be able to sell those images as prints? Jazz hands

They’re non exclusive and you can find them up for sale here: https://rpastro.darkroom.com/collections/as-seen-in-project-...

My website is also www.rpastro.com.au :)

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by rpastro »

lgl wrote: post #131
rpastro wrote: post #111

Hey everyone, I’m the astrophotographer, but I’m not OP. I’m assuming OP picked up my article and posted here and that’s ok! So I quickly created an account here to comment. Having a quick read through the comments I just want to say thank you for the kind words! Please follow my IG ( https://www.instagram.com/deepskyjourney ) to see more of my photography, and the reddit article if you want to drop a comment with an…

Hey Rod, your last name seems portuguese(?) Congrats on this, not only you got credits on a feature movie, you got one of the good ones. Cloud 9 for you, enjoy!

Nice catch. I’m Brazilian but have been living in Australia for over 20 years and thank you!

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by Levitating »

stogot wrote: post #86

This post makes me want to go see the movie now. Is it in imax? I didn’t enjoy the book (Martian was his best) but maybe I will enjoy this

Why? I am currently reading the book as well, and I even though I am not a scientist I feel like I am finding small technical/scientific mistakes that shouldn't have had to be there.

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by rpastro »

fosco wrote: post #119
rpastro wrote: post #111

Hey everyone, I’m the astrophotographer, but I’m not OP. I’m assuming OP picked up my article and posted here and that’s ok! So I quickly created an account here to comment. Having a quick read through the comments I just want to say thank you for the kind words! Please follow my IG ( https://www.instagram.com/deepskyjourney ) to see more of my photography, and the reddit article if you want to drop a comment with an…

Can you share what equipment was used to capture those images?

I’ve had multiple setups over the last 2 years, but for the images displayed in the movie there were two main setups: a William Optics RedCat 51 II and an Askar 130PHQ, both paired with a ZWO ASI2600MM Pro camera, typically on a Sky Watcher NEQ6 Pro mount, along with narrowband and RGB filters depending on the target.

Re: My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary

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Post by bravoetch »

rpastro wrote: post #111

Hey everyone, I’m the astrophotographer, but I’m not OP. I’m assuming OP picked up my article and posted here and that’s ok! So I quickly created an account here to comment. Having a quick read through the comments I just want to say thank you for the kind words! Please follow my IG ( https://www.instagram.com/deepskyjourney ) to see more of my photography, and the reddit article if you want to drop a comment with an…

First time in ages I sat through the credits!
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