Backyard astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy addresses accusations that his images are 'fake' following his latest photo of the ISS crossing the Moon.
“The moment you brand yourself as an enemy and attack someone’s intelligence, you lose any hope of them ever coming back to a reasonable worldview,” he adds.McCarthy goes on to say that space deniers are not stupid, but they have a distrust of organizations which is a common attitude in the West. In fact, McCarthy even says he was once tempted by that worldview.
“Naturally, I stumbled on some flat earth Youtube channels. Lured in with ‘What the planets ACTUALLY look like through a telescope’ or some other title, I watched some videos. “The reason it didn’t work with me: I had just bought a telescope, and Jupiter and Saturn were in our skies at the time. My visual observation matched what I’ve seen in textbooks, not what these Youtubers were showing me with their Nikon [Coolpix] P900s,” he writes.
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