2024-02-15, 07:23 PM
Hi Greg. You're nice to encourage - but the truth is, it's all sincere.
Also, you know from my other messages that I'm drop-dead honest. If I don't understand how something works or why it's a certain way, you know I'll ask. And so I hope you have equal trust in the fact that this stuff really is this good. it's super-helpful, especially on these more exotic targets that no one else has addressed. Thus the comment by the viewer, "SkyTools was done by a professional astronomer." I'm also hoping these videos will, over time, help generate more positive goodwill and more sales for the software. It really is that good. : )
Yes, it's red (in the right way) on my machine. Even though I'm not outside trying to prefer night vision, I've noticed that my own eyes grimace at the bright intensity of full daylight white screens. So the night vision screen you've programmed is just, to me, more attractive in general for a darkened viewing room at night and a darker viewing expectation of live streaming. So I was surprised, when I snapped the screenshot and pasted the screenshot into this thread, that it automatically reversed the image. When I call up the screenshot on my own machine, it still looks exactly like your night vision programming. So the only thing I can guess is that the forum settings somehow reversed the image automatically.
"Object identification" -- it seems like that's what I was expecting my live stream audience to help me do. hahahaha "Human platesolving." haha But thanks to your charts, given enough time, I think we could figure out every 1-billion-light-years-away galaxy. It was just that it was in the last 5 or 10 minutes that we came to that galaxy cluster. But your chart definitely supported the identification of *everything*. And it helped *tremendously* that I could switch to eyepiece view and rotate the chart so it matched with the orientation of the view in Sharpcap. That was so cool - and I don't believe any other chart allows that infinite rotation so easily.
Now I just need to develop all the muscle memory so I remember where all the controls are and how things are controlled. That interface between Atlas an Eyepiece view still seems complex to me - but I'm sure it will come over time. I'm just weird enough that I don't mind "learning over the live stream" so that others can experience the learning with me as I go. : )
So - please keep the rotating eyepiece (and even maybe rotating atlas?) in SkyTools EAA, brother. That's clutch. : )
Also, you know from my other messages that I'm drop-dead honest. If I don't understand how something works or why it's a certain way, you know I'll ask. And so I hope you have equal trust in the fact that this stuff really is this good. it's super-helpful, especially on these more exotic targets that no one else has addressed. Thus the comment by the viewer, "SkyTools was done by a professional astronomer." I'm also hoping these videos will, over time, help generate more positive goodwill and more sales for the software. It really is that good. : )
Yes, it's red (in the right way) on my machine. Even though I'm not outside trying to prefer night vision, I've noticed that my own eyes grimace at the bright intensity of full daylight white screens. So the night vision screen you've programmed is just, to me, more attractive in general for a darkened viewing room at night and a darker viewing expectation of live streaming. So I was surprised, when I snapped the screenshot and pasted the screenshot into this thread, that it automatically reversed the image. When I call up the screenshot on my own machine, it still looks exactly like your night vision programming. So the only thing I can guess is that the forum settings somehow reversed the image automatically.
"Object identification" -- it seems like that's what I was expecting my live stream audience to help me do. hahahaha "Human platesolving." haha But thanks to your charts, given enough time, I think we could figure out every 1-billion-light-years-away galaxy. It was just that it was in the last 5 or 10 minutes that we came to that galaxy cluster. But your chart definitely supported the identification of *everything*. And it helped *tremendously* that I could switch to eyepiece view and rotate the chart so it matched with the orientation of the view in Sharpcap. That was so cool - and I don't believe any other chart allows that infinite rotation so easily.
Now I just need to develop all the muscle memory so I remember where all the controls are and how things are controlled. That interface between Atlas an Eyepiece view still seems complex to me - but I'm sure it will come over time. I'm just weird enough that I don't mind "learning over the live stream" so that others can experience the learning with me as I go. : )
So - please keep the rotating eyepiece (and even maybe rotating atlas?) in SkyTools EAA, brother. That's clutch. : )