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You ignore the entirety of the LSST which will take more image data in its first year than all of humanity. It is wide field, and these constellations cannot j
by sitkack 2y ago
You ignore the entirety of the LSST which will take more image data in its first year than all of humanity.
It is wide field, and these constellations cannot just be stacked out.
You think you are more informed than you are.
- malfist 2y agoOP is not wrong, there is no satellite constellation that can't be "stacked out" That's precisely what stacking does. Trust me, I'm an astrophotographer, you can check my website in my profile, I know what I'm talking about here.
- was_a_dev 2y agoThere's a bit of difference between the aims of astrophotography and professional astronomy. Ones getting a subjectively good image where the other is getting an objectively good quantitative measurement. Do the software "tricks" really translate that well. If they did, these terrestrial telescopes wouldn't engineered to the tune of billions.
- malfist 2y agoStacking isn't a "trick". It's mathematics. I agree my aim is to make pretty pictures, and professional astronomy is to take accurate imagery, but up until I'm making subjective calls about colors, they're not too far apart before the image is stretched to a non linear histogram. After all, I can't build pretty pictures on crappy data. Astrophotography is a heck of a lot of math