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Re:NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade by itishappy on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @02:51PM (#41780504)
That's a completely different hobby.

"Oh, you like golf? Have you considered paying a pro to give you one of their old scorecards? It'd be the best score in your collection!"

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Re:NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade by dylan604 on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @07:23PM (#41782837)
No, it's more like you got permission to play on course you don't normally play having Tiger Woods as your caddy using his clubs and then you get to make the score card say whatever you want. But only if you really want to buy into the premise your response made any sense in the conversation
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Re:NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade by itishappy on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @08:04PM (#41783118)
Do you... not buy into that premise that my comment makes sense in context? I thought it was pretty clear.

The issue I take with your new scenario is that you're not the one swinging the club. You've been working on your stance, grip, and follow-through, but none of that is relevant because the clubs Tiger uses are 400 feet long and in space.

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Re:NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade by dylan604 on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @09:40PM (#41783637)
And how is this any different from people that are more advanced in their hobby with a setup in a remote location[0] with better viewing that your home so that just type in a few commands for their gear to start working and then receive an email/notification when things are done?

Again, your premise is just strange. If you are using an auto-guide setup tracking on its own, then you're really not working the hobby as if you had your eyeball on the eyepiece manually tracking a guide star on an alt/az mount instead of equatorial mount. At this point "hobby" is really undefined in context, so saying that someone with more expensive toys is any less of a hobby than someone with less expensive gear is just moving the hole while someone is on the tee box to continue with this wild comparison

[0] https://nmskies.com/

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Re:NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade by jazzyjackson on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @03:10AM (#41785297)
Unless you built your camera and your telescope yourself im not really seeing the difference

If you do grind your own mirrors, more power to you, I've thought of taking up the hobby myself.

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Re:NASA Made the Hubble Telescope to Be Remade by itishappy on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @09:21AM (#41787699)
Even without grinding your own mirrors, a lot of thought can go into the sensor, telescope, tripod and tracker, filter selection, exposure times, etc. Some of that transfers, some doesn't. Not to mentions the hardships like lugging all your stuff to the nearest desert and staying up checking on your shots and swapping filters. Necessary? Maybe not. A point of potential pride? Maybe.

Also I do happen to know at least one guy who grinds his own stuff. Legend.

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