Quote: Why dose everyone insist on referring to the these photos and sketching as work of the amateur astronommer.They surpass any professionals work I have seen on this Earth.
Simply because they are. None of these people are professionals. That is, they don't get paid to do astronomy.
Chris
-------------------- "To tread the sharp edge of a sword;
to run on smooth-frozen ice,
one needs no footsteps to follow..."
"Well, people sometimes ask me 'how did you get involved in astronomy?' I said 'I got born, what's your problem?'" -- John Dobson
"In discussing the large-scale structure of the cosmos, astronomers sometimes say that space is curved, or that the universe is finite but unbounded. Whatever are they talking about?" -- Carl Sagan