it's always a ridiculous excuse. I can photograph stars in my backyard with a $20 camera

If light pollution is low enough

It helps to have an equitorial mount

of course, doc, but you wouldn't have proper exposure on anything else.

fine. let's see the stars outside of the Earth...or Saturn...or Pluto. I mean if they are making composites anyway...they just add them back into frame later

why do we not have a rover on the moon. sending photos/videos of Earth....eclipses....

why do we not, in 2019, have telescopes there?

not even a fixed camera

but we have them on MARS?!?!

lol

"If a story doesn't make sense, it's not true" Judge Judy

judge judy!

would you not start out on the moon....get it right there...then go to a farther planet?

these stories are preposterous

tell me about it

esp for anyone who has worked in R&D

only Hollywood could come up with such nonsense

I personally don't deal in incredulities. I'll take look at every possibility from both sides of the argument.

I just like stars

the only stars you get with NASA are the actors

lol nice

shiny

more shiny

beauty

shinier

my favorite from today

Are those real?

Stacked in DeepSkyStacker. Switch to 16bit image. Balanced blacks and whites in levels. Adjusted RGB levels. Boosted data using curve adjustments multiple times while maintaining blacks. Reduced noise 1x using camera raw filter tool in Photoshop at 15% luminescence. Space noise reduction. Deep space noise reduction. Enhance DSO Reduce Stars. Color Balance to get natural colors.

ye I stole these from the astrophotography subreddit

bumpy moon

this looks so real

Key word looks

so much care for what is in the sky that you can never get to and so little for humanity that you can. what a shame

That looks like a brain on drugs.