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PSA: I just hit 1,000 hours of total exposure time on my deep sky images.
It snuck up on me when I was adding up data from the Horsehead Nebula shot last week. All those late nights in my backyard in Boise, just letting the camera run. Makes you realize how much patience this hobby really needs. Anyone else track their total integration time and get surprised by the number?
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lee5822mo ago
Ever think about how much actual sky is in all that data? Like @sullivan.quinn's buddy staring for a month, it's wild. My hard drive is just full of black space with tiny specks of color, and I spent a whole summer on those specks. Makes the clear nights feel like a weird kind of race against the clouds.
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lisab327d ago
Black space is basically my backup career at this point.
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sullivan.quinn2mo ago
My buddy did that and found out he'd basically stared at the sky for a month.
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keith1642mo ago
Well, actually, it's not just staring. Those tiny specks of color hold a lot of data. You're measuring their light, tracking changes, sorting star types. It's more like a slow, careful hunt than just looking up. The "black space" is just as important because it tells you what you're not seeing.
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