So do you think that connecting more people to the sky, possibly through this hobby and astrophotography, is a way to help people better understand the research that scientists are doing and the things that are going on in astrophysics?

Yes, I do think it's really important for people to find ways to connect with the universe that is kind of beyond the piece that is human affairs, right?

Like we are one part of the universe, but we are such a tiny fraction of it, and there are all these other incredible things happening and there are these photons arriving at least at our atmosphere, and some of them are getting through our atmosphere, and some of them are still visible despite any light pollution.

One of the reasons that I actually picked up the Seestar was because there's an urban astrophotography blog that I had read that was like, this is actually something where, even if you're in the most light polluted environment, it will be able to craft images of the cosmos for you.

And I think there is something powerful about also recognizing that we can make the night sky accessible even in urban environments.

And also, actually, the moon is pretty cool when you look at it magnified.

And I do actually think there's something different to doing it yourself versus just downloading images on the internet that NASA or somebody else has captured for you.

I think the work that NASA Astrophysics does is incredible and should be extraordinarily well-funded, better funded than it has been historically and the levels that it's currently at.

But I also think that there's something magical about looking in a telescope and seeing it for yourself through the eyepiece or actually engaging in the work of choosing, okay, this is the thing I'm going to take an image of, I'm going to center it myself, I've chosen the night.

This image is partly now my creation.