The Sense of Not Deserving

Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This week I tried two new things: astrophotography and sport fishing out on the Pacific. Two seemingly very different experiences, but they got me thinking about their curious connections — the sense of not deserving.

🌌 Astrophotography - Deep Sky Imaging
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For anyone unfamiliar: astrophotography is a different sport than visual astronomy. Visual astronomy is looking up through a telescope eyepiece, catching the white and orange bands of Jupiter or the ring of Saturn with your own eye, in real time. Astrophotography is capturing those celestial objects through long exposures, taking lots of photos, countering the earth’s rotation with a mount, and then spending at least 50% (if not more) of the time on post-processing to produce images like the ones you’d see from Hubble, James Webb, or Sky & Telescope.

Curious Connection on Three Portkeys

The Sense of Not Deserving

🌌 Astrophotography - Deep Sky Imaging #

🌌 Astrophotography - Deep Sky Imaging
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