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Through the Eyepiece

The Observer

Somewhere between city lights and the dark horizon, I point a telescope at objects thousands of light-years distant and wait. Astrophotography is an act of patience — hours of exposure collecting ancient photons that left their source long before I existed. These images are not photographs of places. They are measurements of time.

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."

Roy Batty  ·  Blade Runner, 1982