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The last time that I went to a planetarium it was far too digital. As a child I would love going to the planetarium that was part of a university and it inspire
by Delphiza 2y ago
The last time that I went to a planetarium it was far too digital. As a child I would love going to the planetarium that was part of a university and it inspired my interest in astronomy at a (too) early age. Those original analogue projectors with all the movements and lenses of various sizes were amazing! Maybe we have it too easy with imax projections and lost something along the way that made a planetarium experience so believable and magical.
- IncreasePosts 2y agoA little related, but I recently used a friends digital telescope (you look into an eyepiece, but you're looking at an LED screen of the captured image, not light directly from the lenses). And, for whatever reason, it felt far less magical than actually letting the photons from Jupiter hit my eye(yes, I know they are absorbed and retransmitted at various points, but you know what I mean).
- dylan604 2y agoThis is pretty much how I feel about electronic view finders on modern digital cameras. I love my xSLR type cameras where I'm seeing the photons directly from the lens and not some digital version of them. I was not even aware of the telescope system that you mentioned actually being a thing, and I'm holding back my involuntarily gag reflex that kicked in just from the description.