Re: [APML] Skill [was: Foveon Chip]

[Philip Perkins <philip@astrocruise.com>]

>Sigh.  This is one of the reasons why I lean toward amateur science.  I can
>quantify my results when I do photometry.  (See:
>http://overton.tamu.edu/aset/krajci/ for some photometry examples.)  Culture
>and value-laden terms in 'Fine Art' discussions and other chaff are
>separated from the wheat...so to speak.


Tom,  good for you.. I am sure that many will appreciate your gathering of 
valuable photometry data.  That's science.  If we are doing it right, 
astronomy can only ever be a science.  It's only when we do it wrongly that 
it becomes art.  I confess to doing it wrongly many times, but that was 
involuntary - due to inexperience.  I am probably being too simplistic but 
I don't see any confusion here - however compelling art may be (and I 
admire many types of art) it doesn't expand our knowledge of the universe.

--Philip

Philip Perkins - philip@astrocruise.com
Wiltshire UK & Luberon France
Astrocruise - http://www.astrocruise.com


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