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The Universe of You: A Molecular Manifesto

Realize that if the Sun was as big as a pumpkin, Jupiter would be about the size of a grape and the Earth's size would be that of a very small grape seed. Beyond our solar system and Milky Way galaxy there is so much more. By using the Hubble telescope to look into a piece of dark space no larger than a grain of sand held at arms length away from your eyes the telescope captured 10,000 galaxies in its view! The James Webb telescope is giving us views and discoveries that are mind blowing in the 21st century. Carl Sagan's pale blue dot, Earth, floats like a mote of dust in the Sun's light. A photo from 4 billion miles away shows us home. That's here, that's us. We are the result of stellar evolution...We come from exploded stars and so does the Earth you're standing on right now. All of the atoms of your body (except hydrogen, the H built the stars) down to the calcium in your bones was brewed chemically inside a star for millions of years and then it was released into the Universe via stars exploding. A stellar pollination! Stars are the only thing "out there" that can make the material (atoms) that makes up planets, people and plants. Look up into the night sky - that is where the building blocks for the human species and all life was born. Matter comes together via gravity and life arises from biochemistry that flourishes from our Sun's energy. Life also is found to thrive from the Earth's energy, hydrothermal vents, deep within our oceans. So amazing as Richard Dawkins put it: "Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you." All of the atoms that you were composed of at birth are no longer in you...you have acquired new atoms for your body material as you've progressed through life. Some molecules such as DNA are not replaced over the life span. You see our bodies are kind of like molecular vessels for matter and our DNA is the architect of matter which contains nature's message, a blueprint for life, that transforms matter into life...to form animate beings such as us. We are the fruits that DNA bears and it is our seed. Each one of us is connected to the entire thread of events of creation from the beginnings in space with exploding stars, to human evolution, to this moment right now. Imagine the beginnings of people 200,000 years ago that look just like us and what they went through to not die out and to raise the next generation...how much of a struggle it was to survive being born into a bare world with no cities, doctors, no language invented yet, and the courage it took to carry on and stay alive. Our ancestors did carry on so that we may be here now...we are a way for the universe to experience itself.

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Pushing the limits of the S30 telescope

I have captured light from NGC 7479, superman/propeller galaxy with the S30. It is 100 million light years away from Earth! It is amazing to me what this telescope can do. Does anyone have experiences that are similar?

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收藏在哪里？

我常收藏一些星友拍的极好的深空图像，但不知道收藏到了哪里。

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拍摄的图像与构图中的图像不同

我在构图中移动和改变构图框的大小和角度，以使构图框包含了整个天体。但是我在拍摄时发现实际拍摄的图像与构图不一致。例如实际上并没有拍摄到整个框住的图像，同时图像的角度也与构图不一样。见下面的图像。请问有什么解决办法？要做什么样的调整？谢谢。实际的图像没有拍全，但已经可以看到不同了。

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Qui a reçu ce message, je n'arrive pas leur répondre :)

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Seestar s50 minimum visibility?

What is the typical minimum visibility needed to capture good images? This would be in a bortle class6-7 area. I recently got a Seestar S50 and am completely new to astrophotography. Haven't had a chance to try it out yet as visibility has been under 20% in my area the past few nights but am extremely excited and looking forward to getting into this new hobby!

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大家有没有发现，4k叠加无法后来完成？

我选了4k拍摄，然后拍摄中输出图像，降噪，图片是4k的没问题。但是如果等全拍完了，发现有树林被拍进图像了，删除拍摄的部分图像，再叠加，你就只能得到1080p的图像啦！

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What exactly does the Observing Real Time Feature Mean In The New Seastar Firmware Update?

Hello and welcome. Does anyone know what the real-time observation feature means? What does that even mean? There's no info button next to it explaining what it does. Does it tell Seastar to show us the progress, or does it tell it to display what it sees? Does anyone have an idea what that’s supposed to mean, or has anyone figured it out yet? Cause im kinda confused with the new firmware update.

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