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Scientists: Yes, we finally did it! We captured a picture from our probe that touched down on a big rock in space! We are awesome!
Me: Holy shit! That is so cool, you are awesome! What did the rock look like?
Scientists: Like a big fucking rock
Me: Dude, no way!
Don't forget the endless abyss that was pictured too.
endless abyss with distant pockets of potential wonder!
(Lovecraft vs Star Trek)
Yeah but we can see the endless abyss by looking up any time there isn't too much light around
Cries in astrophotographer in the suburbs who's had one cloudless night in a fortnight
Every time I have no clouds here it's the moon, like ok yes moon I do enjoy taking pictures of you but can you disappear a bit more?
I had a few glorious dark (for bortle 5-6) nights and was able to get a lot of nice eagle nebula shots a month or so ago. I'm constantly battling the hippie 'don't cut down the few old trees left in this suburb' part of me with the 'get your leaves and branches out of my damn shot, I'm trying to capture space' part