Student 'blown away' by image of mars

[blinky]

Its a decent enough image but not sure why/how it made the news!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-nottinghamshire-54798539

[Nik271]

22 minutes ago, blinky said:

Its a decent enough image but not sure why/how it made the news!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-nottinghamshire-54798539

Just luck probably. Long winter nights are here and this hobby is well suited to the lockdown, so makes a good story right now.

Also I guess most people, BBC reporters including, are impressed  that one can take pretty decent pictures with such modest equipment. They probably expect a giant 10 inch refractor in an observatory or something like that.

 

Nikolay

Edited November 7, 2020 by Nik271
typo corrected

[RobertI]

3 hours ago, blinky said:

Its a decent enough image but not sure why/how it made the news!

Yes it's a bit wierd that it made the news - slow news day! But I guess it's all good for promoting our great hobby.

Edited November 7, 2020 by RobertI

[Stu]

It’s often luck of the draw. My group ended up on Sky News a while back through a series of articles which snowballed from local to national news. See here:

It’s all great publicity so worth contacting local outlets to get articles published.