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So the response to a deceptive promotional campaign should be, just get a ticket and see if what's promoted is good?
No, but how would you even know if it's deceptive or not? Your assumption seems to be it is. I'm saying we can't know, unless you actually seen it.
That's really great news. For anyone looking for the astrophotography equipment, this is from one of his posts: Telescope: William Optics UltraCat 76 Mount: Sky-Watcher Wave 150i Camera: ZWO ASI2600MM-Pro
The camera: ZWO ASI2600MM Pro ~$2000 and telescopes: Askar 130PHQ Quadruplet Refracting Astrograph ~$3500 and William Optics WIFD Ultra-Cat 76 APO Refractor ~$2200. Mount: Skywatcher NEQ6 Pro ~$1300. Probably also some specialized tripod, adapters, software and lots of time and care. Remarkable results for essentially 'serious hobbyist' money.
A bit indiscrete, but how much does the licence cost? Is it around hundreds, 1k, 10k?
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> 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 t…
AI-related definitions aside, if it's a strictly subtractive/destructive tool that only removes light, it's hard to characterise as "generative" and arguably not much different to filtering frequencies!
The "generative" part is that the algorithm is filling in a plausible guess as to what would have been observed if there was no star "in the way".
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…
> And I have to say this clearly: my wife has been incredible through all of it. She’s put up with my astrophotography craziness, backed me the whole way, and seeing how proud and excited she is has been its own kind of reward.
Incredible work, OP. What a proud feeling you must have. Congrats!! My wife and I saw the movie this weekend, we thought it was great. I adored the book, yet I recognize a book can’t be perfectly translated to the screen. I thought the directors did a good enough job at translating the sci-fi into something the masses would enjoy. Kudos to you
Would you recommend reading the book first?
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…
Congratulations Rod. Your pics are amazing! Much success to you. FWIW, my friend, who is an avid astrophotographer, runs a site Brahmand [1] that captures breathtaking pics of the dark sky, with notes on how he took the pics. Awesome stuff: https://www.brahmand.me/photo-gallery/ Recommended for anyone interested in astrophotography. *Brahmand in Sanskrit means the universe [1] https://www.brahmand.me/
Incredible work, OP. What a proud feeling you must have. Congrats!! My wife and I saw the movie this weekend, we thought it was great. I adored the book, yet I recognize a book can’t be perfectly translated to the screen. I thought the directors did a good enough job at translating the sci-fi into something the masses would enjoy. Kudos to you
Would you recommend reading the book first?
The way the book is structured there is only one big reveal that would be spoiled by the movie, but I don’t think that was the most interesting thing in the book anyways, it was all about engineering, the scientific method and all that, and I think that will still hold before or after watching.
The one big exception I’ve found to “read the book first” advice to me has been “the expanse” there the books and the series were so great that they sort of complemented each other, and the advice there is “definitely do both”. I was reading the books and watching the series in parallel - side by side.
I do hope Hail Marry is like that…
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Would you recommend reading the book first?
I watched the movie and then read the book. I tend to prefer movies as a storytelling medium, and enjoyed watching the story unfold that way. I ended up just wanting to know more about things that were implied in the movie but not explained, and the book filled in those gaps well. So if you want to do both, and want to get something new when you do each, then, having done it that way, I would recommend it. Edit: revi…