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Sekhen t1_j4xu3ju wrote

Aren't there cameras on the ISS streaming live? Close enough.

Telescopes expose for hours, days even, before they have a picture. Not much to see there.

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mustafar0111 t1_j52ehlj wrote

You can see them live but there is a delay.

You can run 300s exposure in NINA and it will auto-stretch it as soon as its complete. It sort of feeds as a slideshow.

It won't look as good as a fully stacked and processed image but you still can get a good look at a lot of the targets out there. Especially anything lower magnitude.

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iqisoverrated t1_j4zf5fr wrote

What would be the point? Data collection and image processing takes a loooooooong time. Scientific telescopes aren't "tape a camera to one end and take a snapshot".

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Timetraveler01110101 OP t1_j50uhju wrote

Why does it have to be a deep space image? We could look at local space earth or the moon? Even things in our own galaxy would look cool.

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iqisoverrated t1_j5112pm wrote

You do that just fine from Earth. For a lot less money.

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Timetraveler01110101 OP t1_j51xzlp wrote

Why wouldn’t you want a telescope I space? We waste so much time, energy and resources fighting each other. Why would you not want something that would excite the next generation about space and space travel?

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iqisoverrated t1_j526gld wrote

I mean...do a kickstarter. Get it done. I just don't see the point when we have better instruments for cheaper.

But then again I don't much care for pretty pictures...i'm more into the science of it.

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neorandomizer t1_j4y60pt wrote

Agree, Reddit should crowd fund one I’m sure SpaceX can give us a ride.

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mustafar0111 t1_j52eahn wrote

They have better uses for telescopes in space like research.

If you really wanted to do that place a dozen or so telescopes around the world and have them live feed their auto-stretch target data to a website.

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Timetraveler01110101 OP t1_j52f8os wrote

What better use could there be other than to spark people’s interest in space and the realization we can pool our resources to get there

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mustafar0111 t1_j52frjm wrote

Science. Astrophysicists can use the telescopes to learn how the universe actually works and refine theories. Telescopes are expensive and complicated to put in space and they can make better use of those then we can.

For just public interest telescopes on earth will do just fine if you setup the right equipment. Some of the newer automated one can do the entire process from image acquisition to stacking and auto post-processing live.

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Timetraveler01110101 OP t1_j52g7my wrote

I refuse to accept your line of thinking. Until we have FTL travel might as well enjoy looking up while we learn

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mustafar0111 t1_j52gt6j wrote

You can look up anytime you want. No one is stopping you. You can even buy a telescope if you want.

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