Comments on: "Amateur" astronomers capture Jupiter, Charon

By: A map, retro style « Future moon

A map, retro style « Future moon — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 21:14:39 +0000

[...] I can even shade the map with titanium concentration in a few clicks, if I feel like it. To quote Phil Plait We live in the future. Still no flying cars, but we live in the [...]

By: jahliveyah

jahliveyah — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:31:15 +0000

wat happed to juptier you guys look out for that thing becaue it can at the rist

By: “Amateur” astronomers capture Jupiter, Charon [PIC] « World News

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:01:47 +0000

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By: StrangeCharm » Blog Archive » Particle Debris (Week ending Oct 31)

StrangeCharm » Blog Archive » Particle Debris (Week ending Oct 31) — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:00:52 +0000

[...] was an extremely popular story here at the Mac Observer. Modern Science and even Discover magazine picked up the story. Discover noted that two other amateur astronomers in Italy captured a great shot of Pluto and its [...]

By: Gallo-leo

Gallo-leo — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:42:29 +0000

We need to quit patting ourselves on the back and read “The Long Emergency.” Our unprecedented technological explosion has been based on a dwindling resource and benefits a relatively small percentage of the world population and the downside is obvious. This may have been a flash in the pan. Wait and see.

By: TomDooley

TomDooley — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:28:19 +0000

Well said, Ed Bride!

>”What’s the big deal about the iPhone?”

By: Astronomy

Astronomy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:09:19 +0000

this is awesome. really cool that they were able to take pics like that with a subpar camera

By: Ed Bride

Ed Bride — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:21:44 +0000

What’s the big deal about the iPhone? It had little to do with the quality or size of the image. It took a photo of something in a telescope. A $20 digital standalone camera could have done just as well, probably better.

By: Simmons

Simmons — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:26:31 +0000

To be fair, the discovery photo was taken on with photoplates, peaking at 2% of incoming light imaged, were as a cheap CCD these days can get around 70%, which varys, the dark sky lab im working at now is a 90% effcient, meaning it captures 45 times more light, which is the equivilent of increasing the diameter on a photoplate scope. the iphones use as a CCD is fine, its the exact same chip technology, probably just lower quality, it’d be more on the telescope to collect light then the iphones ability to take a picture. My sophemore year working on a .8m (16inch) scope i took images around that quality, its not “hard” with the tools at your disposal. That said, astronomy isn’t easy, and they do deserve props for a great image. Maybe these guys can get some professional stuff done, taking pictures like that is a pretty strong start.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:46:30 +0000

We live in the future. Still no flying cars, but we live in the future.

As William Gibson put it: the future is already here. It’s just not very evenly distributed.