As editor of an amateur astronomical journal is to always move to subjects and especially photos. Just Astro Photos of deep sky objects, but also of the planets, the moon and sun, have their own special charm.
Thanks to digital cameras was this world of amateur astronomy revolutionized so that today much more and above all, much better shots than they were 10 or 20 years are possible. can be converted for astrophotography cameras, CCD cameras and Webcams for Planetary produce in the hands of experienced people pictures today that were once reserved only for space probes or professional telescopes.
The possibilities of digital image processing, one must necessarily use may include, but not unlimited, but make up even more shots still seem really nice.
course: In vergurkten, poorly tracked or incorrectly exposed shots even the most powerful image processing software is powerless. A certain basic quality, the raw images, of course, already have, finally you can from a small car, despite all the redevelopment potential yes even a Ferrari tinker.
There are many astronomers who make so-called "pretty pictures", images that should simply represent only a beautiful object, without having the right to be used for scientific investigations. Loved by many and scorned by many, among them pictures of the kind that are produced most frequently. Unfortunately, they are, if at all, sometimes only shown on mailing lists, but the entrance to one of the many (amateur) Astro journals can not find it. The photographers consider their best results sometimes too bad, although this is not at all. Here, in amateur magazines even if it comes along seemingly in glossy format, the quality required is much lower than in professional journals. Thus, even beginners, have their picture results are not yet fully one hundred per cent, to perpetuate a real chance. The mail with the photo is quickly forgotten, the forum topic is perhaps not recovered, but in a magazine you can still watch the recordings for years!
As a reviewer, one is almost always at a loss for pictures, because these areas is an issue, but often the images disappear in digital archives and never be seen or shown, possibly even to astronomical events, as the North German astrophotographers meeting (NAFT).
problem seems to be that print media is obviously in this day and age no longer attractive enough. People used to be happy and pleased if you could put a photo in the magazine. Today it is a few clicks (and often poorer resolution) through various forums and mailing lists. This leads to the paradoxical situation that is often futile begging for pictures that may be announced yet come, then never, but we afterwards heard complaints that occur in the issue too much text and too few pictures.
Especially given the current good weather disaster, I would like to Astro many photographers in this country to ask: Think also of the many small amateur magazines, living on your reports and your pictures!
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