Trying to dispel myths about astrophotos is a challenge

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jemhouston
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Trying to dispel myths about astrophotos is a challenge

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Touching grass is nice, but looking at the stars is better sometimes.
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Re: Trying to dispel myths about astrophotos is a challenge

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It’s so strange how it can look so wonderful, so beautiful, and enticing. Yet at the same time there lurks a feeling of dread in the background. Dread of the vastness, of the implications of our minuteness in relation to the rest of the universe, and dread of purpose.
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Re: Trying to dispel myths about astrophotos is a challenge

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...Murchison's Eye.

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MikeKozlowski wrote: Fri Aug 01, 2025 11:01 pm ...Murchison's Eye.

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it fries my mind when I start thinking about the vastness of the universe, and then start thinking of the ending of MIB II comparing sizes thinking we could be a particle in an atom from a larger universe.
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