What have I really learned after these two months of mono?

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Frank "Voloire" avatar

That an image is never really ‘finished’ – it’s abandoned :-) And that the time it takes to ‘finish’ it tends to infinity…
Yes, that’s it: in the end you simply abandon it, with the inner conviction (even if it isn’t supported by logic or facts) that it would have kept getting better.

With OSC I’ve always been rather hasty; I’ve discovered a side of my personality I didn’t know I had, and at almost 60 I have to conclude that this hobby is also a journey of psychological introspection.
At this point I find myself wondering what isn’t astrophotography :-)
What do you think? Have you had this kind of epiphany as well?

CS dear friends,

Frank

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Tony Gondola avatar

I tend to see it as an iterative process of diminishing returns. The data only has so much to give and as you work it you get closer to that limit until the only thing that would make it better is more/better data, mostly more. That’s when you get more data or call it finished.

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