Taking a Picture of a Supernova While Setting Up a New Camera

Re:Taking a Picture of a Supernova While Setting Up a New Ca... by T-hawk on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @08:21PM (#16434444)

Remember the principle of multiple endpoints. We only noticed this one example because it hit; we never notice all the cases that don't.

If between 10^6 and 10^7 cameras have been tried out by taking pictures of space, then this one supernova incident is right at about the expected value.

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Re:Taking a Picture of a Supernova While Setting Up a New Ca... by gmiller123456 on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:12AM (#16438041)

This would only be true if people pointed at random galaxies in the sky. There are only a few thousand galaxies in the NCG catalog that an amateur would even be able to see, and only a few dozen that an amateur would actually be interested in photographing.

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