Re: [APML] Science in Astrophotos?

[Gene Horr <genehorr@texas.net>]

>From what I see the arguments are skirting around the real issue.  IMO the 
debate really is whether or not data acquisition is "science".

IMO astrophotography is data acquisition.  It may not be useful at this
time, and post processing can ruin the effectiveness of it, but it is 
gathering data.

IMO data acquisition is a valuable part of science.  It is not the full
process, but to call it not science IMO is splitting hairs a little too
fine.  I saw the same thing happening with the outfit over in Oracle
(Geosphere II?  Something like that).  They were being bashed because
since they were doing data acquisition only it wasn't "science", and
therefor a waste of time/money.

Gene Horr
genehorr@texas.net

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