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If I understand correctly, this is only used for astrophotography? You can't actually view through it with your bare eyes? That, to me, was the main reason to buy a reflector/refractor telescope; to receive the actual light of a planet (okay actually the suns light bouncing off the planet) bouncing through a bunch of mirrors, lenses and eyepieces back into your own eyes. The first time finding and seeing Saturn and Jupiter with my own eyes was amazing.

That’s correct. But don’t let that put you off. They’re simply for different things!

I have both an S30 Pro and an 8” motorized SCT. The wow factor of a real scope is not lost, I can assure you.

But I don’t take my big telescope camping, for example. It’s too big and awkward. The Seestar fits in a backpack, and spits out beautiful galaxy photos to use as phone wallpapers. I just leave it running all evening. It’s very neat.


Just use a temp email (if they allow it) and screenshot the email you'll receive?

> Cats should stay inside they house

Isn't putting them on a leash, or having them wear a bell around their neck outside, enough for all parties?


Mhh, intriguing.

I would also say they would at least need to be neutered in that case so they dont reproduce with the feral population, but from a predatory perspective that would probably be fine then.

I would still not let our cats go out, my wife is pregnant so toxoplasmosis is very scary and bell or not we would be terrified of them getting lost or getting run over by a car or worse.


Imagine trying to put a harness on jello, and you will understand the difficulty of doing this on some cats.


@dang - may be combine these discussions although one has no comments yet.

"@dang" doesn't do anything; email the address in the footer if you want to propose something to a mod.

Given how often dang replies to an @dang post, he clearly has a running search for it. Expecting us to go out of band is ridiculous and won't happen.

> Given how often dang replies to an @dang post, he clearly has a running search for it

Huh how do you know somebody didn't email them the hn comment containing the @dang ?


It's not ridiculous, and it happens regularly.


Surprise and shine, Mr. Freeman



Previous discussion 09.nov.2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=931273 32 comments


It hits very differently in 2026 with people outsourcing their thinking to AI

There's some more discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/asimov/comments/1u76f8l/the_feeling...


Profession (also by Asimov) takes it even further - https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php


Related: "Australia's social media ban has failed (reuters.com)" 02.aug.2026 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49141877 127 comments


Ongoing discussion: "OpenAI Jalapeño: Better than Nvidia Blackwell (semianalysis.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49434378 +300 comments


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