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Always been a great interrest and hobby to me.
Found this video series today and it's mindblowing.

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I want to get into astrophotography.

I have a dslr and tripod, but only an 18-55mm lens.

Saw a video on how to use them for images, but it's cloudy here lately.
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iamgoat wrote:
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Always been a great interrest and hobby to me.
Found this video series today and it's mindblowing.


I’ve seen this before and it’s earth shattering. No pun intended. Or is there hmmmm
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it's a little depressing how far apart things actually are in the universe

THE SIMULATION CREATORS MADE IT THIS WAY
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Phosphine in Venus' atmosphere, what does that imply Vamphy :waa:
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Ninny wrote:
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Phosphine in Venus' atmosphere, what does that imply Vamphy :waa:
Possible microbial life :waa:
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moondrops bursting all up in this piece
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that's exactly what they are
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Astronomical distances and timescales are dumb hueg. But one thing that always impressed me is how precise measurements can get in astronomy even without advanced tools.

E.g.: Mercury's orbit is elliptical, but the ellipse rotates around the Sun slowly (called perihelion precession). It does so by about 43 milliarcsec per century. That's less than a thousandth of a degree rotation of the ellipse, discovered centuries ago. Done by eye, without computers, and had no real explanation until early last century (general relativity).
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