Great shot! It beats the crap out of the 99.9999% of us who didn't capture it. Well done.

Yet another image I expected a balloon when I zoomed in, and was disappointed.

it is very hard to position a telescope by hand to the eyepiece. When I tried it I saw more sunspots with naked eye than my phone camera could see. Do you think the sensors are good enough to capture all details you see?

yes the visual is definitely more dark red and more clear. I use a lunt 40mm, a Pentax XF Zoom and the camera is a Fujifilm

What model telescope and what kind of camera do you use? to the visual eye it looks much dark red!

Thanks. I am, and I don't want to spend the money and time that I know other people do.

I feel a lot better when I see them mention that they combined 100 exposures of 2 minutes a piece and I'm left thinking "I'm ok with my 10 minutes out in the cold and getting a decent image."

nah, it's very slight, but it's there

maybe I'll post my measurements

but where

You need to be higher to see the curve of the earth

Don’t get discouraged from what other people achieves. This is a great photo indeed and you should be proud!

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You’d be a fool to believe in something before we know for sure

See other comments or: What if we’re the first?

> 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000

That number (10^39) is about a hundred million billion too high - give or take a factor of 100.

Still, a reasonable estimate of stars (and, given an average of one planet per star, about the same number of planets) is about 10^22. It is almost inconceivable that earth is the only place with life.

Also, the first life could not have formed immediately after the Big Bang, because the only elements then were hydrogen and helium. These two formed the first stars, and after a few hundred million years, the larger ones could have exploded, forging the other elements that are necessary for life.

You don't need any scientific data lulz. You'd be a fool to believe there isn't life out there.

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100% guaranteed life outside earth.

Take my word for it.

Total hubris to believe otherwise.

Plus, I think I once heard Neil Degrasse Tyson and Joe Rogan say there is.

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Drake Equation

Fermi Paradox

Eukaryogenesis - Hard Steps Problem

We don't know, but advances in research seem to be narrowing it down more and more by the day, and the trend isn't that it's more likely. At least as it pertains to intelligent life. Life in general is considered to be abundant.

100%. People only think of how vast space is but forget to consider how old the universe is. So not only are there 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000 stars out there, all with the potential for life there are over 13 billions of years for life to have come and gone from any given one.

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I would say it is almost certain that life exists on someplace other than earth, the Drake equation.