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by HorstG
2338 days ago
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Modern astronomy works at the edges of whats possible, a single frame might take hours. Needing multiple frames would mean multiple days per observation. It would mean no longer seeing faint and distant objects, limiting us to younger, closer and frankly far more boring objects. It would make observing variability impossible for certain timescales. You need old distant objects for cosmology, observing the structure if the universe, big bang and stuff. You need variability for finding exoplanets, measuring distance and observing transitions such as supernovae. Oh, and then a huge part is taking spectra, which means bouncing the light directly off a grating. Filtering transients is hard to impossible there. You need spectra for relative motion, magnetic fields, composition of matter and radiation and of course temperature. Needing such filters would set astronomy back a few decades |
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