This is what I ponder

I’ve seen some truly astounding imagery of our universe, even the imagery that has been done by amateur astronomers using consumer grade equipment. Looking over such photos, I wonder if video equipment will ever achieve such quality in single video frames when filmed at frame rates above 30 frames per second. Now that would essentially take the idea of “astounding photography” to a whole new level. I’m sure that if a single video frame could capture what Hubble captured in the course of minutes or hours we could then expect to see much more, extremely impressive things happening in our skies. Now have a camera that can not only do that, but can also record the video non stop and select any frames that show anything out of the ordinary occurring, then to me that would be about the equivalent of winning the jackpot; essentially every frame would be a dollar to me. I don’t why exactly, however it’s truly astounding to think about such a concept. The universe is essentially here in our hands, we just have to manufacture the correct equipment to make it come alive! My 20 megapixel stills from my 4.5 inch, 900mm focal length. scope which were done through a Kellner 25mm eyepiece are literally good for nothing, despite zooming in 3.6x. I see to it that in the future, I’m not sure when exactly, we will enter into this “magical” time when the Universe will be seen in a new perspective. Now that’s something! Usually, for astronomers atmospheric turbulence is undesirable, however, I look at it a different way: atmospheric effects are like art effects applied to a video or even photo in Photoshop. Of course, don’t get me wrong, atmospheric influence is a major problem, however, in some ways it can be beautiful when captured the in the correct way. If we were to do such experiments over a long enough time, which would probably take many decades, if not much longer, then we could create a very compelling study of the changes that are happening in the Earth’s atmosphere! I wish that we lived in a larger timeframe so that we could see time lapse videos of far flung stellar objects such as galaxies and nebula as they are being destroyed, created, and “modified” by universal forces. Now, let’s step away from astronomy. I think that creative photos of our own world show what’s mostly invisible to our own vision. For example, a long exposure of 10 seconds of water flowing in a river can be interesting, but unfortunately, our own human vision simply isn’t capable of such feats. What if that wasn’t true though? What if our brains could process information using various “Settings” such as what a camera can, for example, adjusting single processed images once every 10 seconds using a “shutter speed” (or brain processing time) of 10 seconds? What if the following photo was a single frame from a normal video?! Imagine the implications. What would we need? Would we need an imaging sensor the size of many square miles, or a scope with a mirror many miles in diameter? Otherwise, don't expect much from a video; most of the time, chances are that the image would be dark with nothing in it. Take this photo of Jupiter that I took; this is the best I could do with my camera's 1080p, despite quite an impressive additional zoom of about 20x or more. I'd really like to see a video such as what was described earlier in this post, illustrating the differences between a clear and a hazy atmosphere. Well guess what? I'm going out today because the weather is cooperating, so maybe capture something interesting in the night sky. The only complaint that I have today is that I'm missing my glasses, leaving all of the stellar objects practically invisible to my vision. My image makes me want to shit my pants compared to what today's amateur astronomers could probably do with the same exact equipment.