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This is quite interesting. Here in Germany, your confession is tied to government stuff too (for paying taxes to the church for example). I too was babtized as kid an as such, my records show(ed) that I'm catholic, both in the church and legal documents. As far as I know, here you really just have to go to the local government, formally leave your confession, and you'll get removed. The priest will often contact you to reconsider your decision, so I assume this basically does the same too. Costs a good chunck of money too unfortunately (60€). I did this too a while back and don't regret it either.

I really enjoyed the video, astro related or not. I was raised with a strict Pentecostal upbringing where it was taught "Bible only, no questions." It was definitely frowned upon, and I was discouraged as a kid when I decided I wanted to be an astronomer when I grew up. Things didn't pan out that way, but I did end up in the hobby of astrophotography.. Just wondering if it was accepted when you brought up astronomy as a child in the religion, or was it similar to my experience?

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On the same vibe… only one cable is needed usbc

I'm catholic, but not Roman Catholic. I appreciate your honesty in your faith. Sounds like you were raised well in a Christian type home, which was a positive influence on your adulthood. Sounds like you are also familiar with the Word and have it in your mind. Stay safe and enjoy your journey. Blessings from a Christian Astronomer, Engineer, and Science Geek.

Have you thought about getting one of those industrial grade PCs?

He’s fake, his acting’s university grade. Probably hoping will share it thinking it’s real. Deception is a stinky cologne.

Yep, I totally agree. Having it as part of existing software or a plugin would change the hobby hugely and positively. The market for these all-inclusive telescope cameras is not long-term stayers in the hobby, it is people who may not get into the hobby if they have to do more than load an app and press go. They tried to solve this years ago with goto telescopes but these are bulky, expensive and don't sit on a bookshelf when not in use and you really need to spend time to get them working effectively. I think for what they are, these smart telescopes seem good, they have a market for sure and mobile apps have become an acceptible way to access and control things these days, like smart home devices. The goto scope hand controllers and PC software can be clunky and don't get you the instant on-tap gratification a mobile app, can. I totally agree with your views on this though. I am still learning, I am in the hobby with a long-term aspiration to improve and learn more so having software control the gear makes more sense to me than an all-in-one compact camera scope system that I will toss away in two years when the next one is released. I can see why people like these systems though. Turn it on, select a target press a button then wait a while and see your photos. Obviously, you are a Celestron man, but even their system has limits being an AZ mount so it can only take short exposure images, so as cameras get better and more sensitive it will become more sensible to buy an EQ mount with a better camera than a better camera for an old AZ mount, so it still has a time limitation of usefulness before the hardware is outdated even with an interchangeable camera system. I guess a positive side of these is they keep the cash flowing in the door for the manufacturers so maybe mass marketing these things will bring down the cost of hardware in general for everybody, or maybe I'm dreaming. The nice short video was great, I like this topic.

Religion(s), brainwashing people for centuries....

Please don't do it this way. Watch the ChefSteps video. Let the meat rest first, and completely dry it off and use much larger containers

I'm coming up on my 1 year anniversary of getting into astrophotography and am working my way through your (and other's) videos. I have enjoyed all of yours, but this was one of the best! I heartily endorse all six points as well as your allusions to Sisyphus and stamp collecting. I just wish I was as slightly below average as you (and could convince myself to go mono, buy that camera, and get that mount). In the meantime, I have already evolved to "slow" astrophotography and being strict in using subframe selector. (Although I would modify your catch-phrase to "the universe is meaningless" - society is meaningful in so many good and bad ways). Keep up the great work!

I am so damn confused

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Brilliant story. Thank you for sharing. As a long-confirmed atheist I will say: Faith is not a bad place to have come FROM (it can help young kids to trust the universe) but for some of us - at some time - blind faith starts to interfere with making good decisions.

Nothing can touch Sky Safari Pro 7 !

Dealing with reality is beyond a lot of people it seems. Glad to hear you are not insane, but only mildly alcoholic.

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Not to mention the being Aussie tax from some manufacturers. I recall when the EdgeHD first came out pricing in Australia was such that it was cheaper to fly to USA buy the scope and bring it back with you and still have money to spare. Meanwhile at the same time other scope manufacturers were providing prices in accordance with other regions. Not sure much has changed with some of these companies. Up until recently similar thing was being done by Resmed on CPAP machines which sold for a fraction of the Aussie price in USA, and you know it was made by an Australian no idea how that works. Most of my telescopes I have bought 2nd hand for this reason.

Celestron's service center in Torrance California also services other makes of Synta Corps telescopes. Look up Synta Corp for more eye-opening information.

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Hands down the ASIAIR and it’s plug and play easy of use has won over a lot of people myself included. It’s software will continue to attract new users who want an easy way into a complicated hobby.

I have enjoyed all of your UA-cam videos. But this one is the best! I never thought about it, even with the sour taste left in my mouth by the catholic church. No, that taste was never left in my mouth by a priest either. Have had nothing to do with the church or any church since the passing of my Mother. BRAVO! Thanks for all your videos, keep it up. Sincerely, Ken L Stough

Excellent video Dylan!

Cronie Capitalism is FUN!!!!

There’s nothing like having a scope that gives you the option to take off the camera and put on a nice wide angle lens, and just look…

I challenge you to read "Gunning for God" written by Jhon Lennox.

Explore Scientific sucks. They have some good and bad products, but as a company they are mediocre. Sure, they are no major player.

And that folks is why R&D in telescope design sucks and we get overpriced models with mechanic and optical issues that were designed 30 years ago

skywatch‘a factory is located in my hometown Rugao in China. 😂

I had a Drwarf II. Didn't like the Alt-Az . I think this is the biggest issue with the all in ones, someone needs to market an equitorial mount version.

Amazing video!

I wonder the actual price it takes to make the telescopes vs what they sell for.

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Hi Dylan , well , it might not be Jazz but it is great music and this piece has an Astronomy connection in both Lyrics and Video . Please have a look and listen to Nightwish's "Shoemaker" , the Official Lyric Version . I think you will be surprised . Cheers .

Just to make sure, you did it to convert to visual astronomy, didn't you?? 😐

Thank God, I’m not Christian! What? wait a minute..

Just bought one for my Skywatcher Explorer 150PL. At F8 hoping this is a nice cheap combo (715 was £135)

Interesting story. At least it was easier than getting uncircumcised.

I'll never make any money as I shoot colour so I'm not a proper astronomer ha ha ha

When I saw this title I thought it was going to be a little mock video about Hayley Vernon being recently baptised hahahaha!! I don't even know why, she has nothing to do with space.

Does this mount have exposed gears?

I love your channel! And I fully support your decision my son! 😆 So, I have a thought for content- It’s cost me thousands for my current Astro gear. It would cost me a couple hundred to package it all up and send it to you. You could then make an entire video showing me how to use it correctly! From setup to final image processing. I would be willing to pay you for it. I mean, if I owned $8000 in astrophotography gear and paid $1000 to someone like you to show me how to use it correctly, it would be worth every penny. You then post it on your channel for others to learn. You could explain what things might be needed to complete my rig, and if you have these things, use them during the video to show its proper use. Anyway, love what you do. Thanks for putting in the time and effort to enhance our lives. 😊

p.s. you were not a dork as a kid, but a cute kid. Lets leave it, not elaborate any more, given the nature of this video.

Great video, Dylan. Islam may be fastest growing religion, but nonreligion is growing far faster than any religion, cuz nobody can see any stars anymore due to light pollution, and its just so effortless to see the stars on youtube. Schrödinger's religion, Schrödinger's stars 😂

I am not sure of the technically correct names used in this so here goes... After a quick think, The "freedom of movement" required to fully automate a large telescope along multiple independent axis involves. 1- Equator, (planetary surface angle, latitude-longitude). 2- Azimuth (clock-anticlock around the base of the tripod or support pillar) 3- Altitude (vertical, ground to sky angle) 4- Declination (is this the northpole southpole swing) 5- Ascension ( track a star across its east-west path ?) can anyone tell me if I am correct so far ?. I did a quick google on telescopes and mounting systems I just used a broomstick and stepped myself through how to find and point at the moon in the sky.

I was not aware that mounts wern't already fully automated, I had assumed they would be... interesting... Sounds like a good project to undertake.

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Dylan, I wanted to reply to all of this. I am a believing Christian. But, what does that mean? Christianity and Religion are like the differences between Astronomy and Astrology, they often are not in the least bit related. Christianity is simply the relationship between a Father and His Children, the Father being God, and the Children, starting with Jesus Christ, and anyone else who is born again. Oh, there's another one of those 'religious phrases', born again. What does that mean? Romans 10:9, 10 states that if a person confesses with their mouth Jesus as Lord, and believes in their heart that God raised him from the dead, they will be saved, born again. So, confess with your mouth means not necessarily out loud, but you make a conscious decision to put Jesus first in your life, to live a life that he set the example for. Also, you have to believe in your heart, the innermost part of your being, that God raised Jesus from the dead after the three days in the ground. Now, if you do that, God gives you 'holy spirit.' God is Holy, God is Spirit and He can only give what he is. Spirit can not be discerned by the five senses. You get holy spirit, but your mind doesn't instantly change, you don't walk around with some halo over your head, you don't automatically do great and wonderful things. If you were an asshole before you got born again, good possibility you're going to be an asshole afterwards, too. At least until you 'renew your mind', or change your mind. In the Old Testament, there were 900 or so laws that were given to the Judeans. Jesus Christ came to fulfill the law. That's a whole different discussion, but today, we live under a new set of laws, something that most religions don't teach. Simply put, when asked what the greatest laws were, Jesus answered 'Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength, and then love your neighbor as yourself.' He went on to say that all of the Old Testament laws hang on that. How much easier than remembering 900 laws is it to just love God and love your neighbor as you love yourself? Now, here's something else. Water baptism went out in the Gospels. Today, after Acts 2:2 when the day of Pentecost fully came, we are baptised with holy spirit. That same holy spirit I mentioned before. One day, about nine months before you were born, your father 'planted seed' in your mother. He fertilized her egg and nine months later, you were born. That's basic science. Your father's and your mother's DNA mixed together and is in every cell in your body. You can not, under any circumstances, no matter what you've done, how badly you've upset your parents (not just you, any person walking the face of this planet), you can not NOT be your parents child. They can 'disown you', give you up for adoption, etc. How many times might you have heard as a child from one of your parents 'You're not my child!' Well, unless it was a step parent, yes, you are their child, nothing can change that, no matter how angry they might be at you. God is no different. Once you confess Jesus as Lord, and believe God raised him from the dead, you meet the requirements to be God's son or daughter, in your case, His son. IF you EVER, at ANY TIME in your life, met that requirement. If you've never met that requirement, then you're not God's child. It's as simple as that. If you DO meet the requirement, you are now baptized with holy spirit, and you can never undo that. You can't go to God and say 'I don't want to be your kid any more, I don't believe you any more, I don't believe IN you any more, you're nothing but a figment of my imagination.' Oh, you can say that, but God will kind of just look at you, smile and go 'You're my kid, sorry, but not sorry, you'll always be my kid, and there's a time coming when you'll understand.' Religions don't teach this. Religions say you need water baptism, some say that you can be 'born again' one second, but not the next, other say to get into Heaven you need to do certain works. None of that is what God says. God says believe and meet the requirements of Romans 10:9, 10 and you're Heaven-bound and nothing, absolutely nothing can stop you. Right now, Jesus Christ is the only man who ever walked the face of this planet who is in Heaven. Everyone else before Acts 2:2 who believed is dead and is awaiting the resurrection of the dead. Those of us who after Acts 2:2 who believed and meets the requirements of Romans 10:9, 10 and have died are awaiting the "Gathering Together". Two completely different things at two completely different times. The Bible says that one day, Christ will appear in the air, in the clouds, and the dead in Christ (those who are born again) will get up from the dead and those of us (Believers) who remain alive will be caught up. We'll be given new bodies and we'll be GONE! It will all happen in the blink of an eye. Those who aren't born again will still be here, still be alive, and will continue on, but it will no longer be available to be born again. That door will have closed for ever. At that instant in time, the book of Revelations begins, not before. No Christian will ever go through what will happen in Revelations, we'll all be in Heaven getting our rewards. So, if at any time in your time in the Catholic Church, you told Jesus he was Lord of your life, even if you don't believe it now, and you believed in your inner most being that God raised him from the dead, guess what. You ARE a Christian, and you can't change that. But, if you never did, then you aren't. You could be the most giving person, a philanthropist, Mother Teresa, and if you don't meet the requirements, you're not going to Heaven. God is not a respector of persons, but of conditions. Meet the conditions, the requirements, and things happen. Go flip a light switch. If there is power to the circuit, if there is a working lamp plugged in, you'll get light. You've closed the circuit. If there are any condition that isn't met, no light. God works the same way. You wouldn't look up some astrologist to tell you about nebulae, galaxies, star clusters and expect them to teach you anything scientific based, because they don't know it. Religions who don't teach you God's Word, the Bible, are no better than those astrologers. Finally, Eccleisastes 1 in the King James Version talks about "vanities" Verse 2 is a Figure of Speech, Epanadiplosis, and is used where the first and last word are the same to bring the greatest emphasis. However, Vanities is used of that which soon vanishes. It is something transitory and unsatisfactory. So, yes, without God, which is what Ecclesiastes is talking about, life is meaningless, transitory and unsatisfactory. But, with God, it is something totally different. Finally, 'we're all going to die?' No, some will not die. As I said, when Christ returns to gather together his church, there will be believers who will still be alive, who will be 'caught up' into the clouds, and transformed. There will also be the believers who between Acts 2:2, the day of Pentecost, and that moment Christ returns who have died, and they will get up from the dead and be given new bodies. In fact, they will get up before those who are alive will be caught up, but as I said, it all happens in the blink of an eye, a 'twinkling of an eye' in the King James version. So, we're not all going to die, although if the Gathering Together is far enough in the future, yes, all of us who are on the planet will be dead when that happens. But, no one, not one person, not one angel, not even Jesus Christ, knows the day or the hour when God will say to him "Go bring the family home." So, did you ever believe, even for a short period of time, did you ever confess Jesus as Lord, and believed God raised him from the dead?

Fantastic Story! I’m an even bigger fan now!