RobH

If it's anything like what I'm still fighting after 2 weeks, it's not man flu, but the real deal, and you won't want to get out of bed for a few days, never mind go out under the stars!

Lots of them are real colours. Many of us imagers spend a lot of time striving for a correct colour balance. Narrowband images are often false colour, but that's because they often use the emission of sulphur as red, which it is, but then also use hydrogen alpha as green, when in fact it's also red. Not all NB images are false colour though...I try to keep mine as close to natural colouring as possible.

Vastly beyond anything that exists, or is even remotely planned. To see the lunar lander for example would need a scope with a mirror larger than 600 metres if I remember correctly!

Me too.....solid cloud all day here !

Once you're aligned, that's it. If you're on a pier, then just fire up, connect to your planetarium program, goto a star, centre, sync, and you're done. simples :-)

I think the worst sort of sci fi is elitist sci fi.