Davoud:
Who's the bigger fool ‹ the puppeteer or the puppet? I would argue its
you, Kelleher's puppet.

palsing:
On the other hand, perhaps I will increase my rate of negative responses to
Gerald's astronomical fantasies, and you can continue to berate me for it,
and after a while I will become the puppeteer and you will become Paul's
Puppet. Works for me.

Your logic appears sound to me. I will act on it so that it will no
longer work for you. Do you understand that it is very unlikely that
Kelleher reads your responses? Trolls are hit-and-run. That leaves you
****ing into the wind. At least you /read/ my response!

By the way, I like your latest photo of the North America Nebula and its
neighboring Pelican Nebula. They happen to be the subject of my own very
first (and last!) astrophotograph when I mounted my trusty Pentax MX on my
brand-new Celestron C8 in 1974, shooting Ektachrome. The wide-angle picture
came out, sorta, and one could recognize the 2 nebulae, but I never took
another picture, I would rather see stuff in real time, naked-eye, which is still the case today.

This is a highly personal choice, not subject to criticism. But what do
NGC 7000 and IC 5070‹and myriad other objects ‹ look like to the naked
eye? To me, nothing. I have macular degeneration, which severely limits
my ability to distinguish low-contrast objects. But I can still use a
MacBook Pro without difficulty and astrophotography is the route for
me.

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I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that
you will say in your entire life.

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