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jason ware / m8 - lagoon nebula / lx400-acf
jason ware / moon / lx400-acf
“THE FIRST TIME I SAW A GALAXY
(that wasn’t a picture in National Geographic)
I GOT A LUMP IN MY THROAT.”
Of course, then my wife looked in the telescope and said, “That’s pretty cool. How long are we
going to be out here?” That’s typical for most people. I’m drawn to astronomy for the appreciation of
what you’re looking at: A galaxy with a hundred billion stars, forty million light years away. But if
you’re drawn to it for the visual beauty, astrophotography is your key to the hobby.
The total automation of the LX400-ACF makes astrophotography accessible to millions of regular
people like me. I mean, you can do these 6-hour long exposures and still have a life. I’ll kick off a
sequence and go do something else. The scope’s in my backyard working away, and I’m off playing in
a hockey game. Or some nights I go to bed. I wake up and have a whole series of images to process the
next day. Sometimes I check up on my scope’s progress remotely by doing a VNC session on my cell
phone. It’s just phenomenal what amateurs are doing these days. I have these friends who are always
saying, “Someday, I’m going to own a telescope.” Well there’s never been a better time.
— jason ware , astrophotographer opposite page / jason ware / m31 - andromeda galaxy / Meade 12" Schmidt Camera
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