I guess "close to finished" is relative. I have been very excited about LSST for over 6 years.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvp7k3/
You could tell me a guy made it in his basement last year and made rounds on the social networks, and I'd believe you.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvmxp1/
I thought the very same thing!
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvlhci/
This was probably the saddest thing I learned in Astronomy. "So wait, you mean all those pictures of beautiful galaxies and clouds are just fake? ""Well not fake, but that's not what you would ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvl4zi/
I don't really feel like anyone is being duped though. It's real light, it's just not in our visible spectrum (our eyes have limitations). I'm personally glad we have the technology to deliver th...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvky37/
It's an enhanced image. Every image from space cameras is taken in black and white and assigned colors to bring out details.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvix7v/
Those look like a cloud of iodine.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckviiy8/
Pixlr Express is another good one
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvi1ci/
It helps people get excited about science.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvhpv6/
With envy?
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvhp0n/
It used to be a job given to women around the turn of the 20C. the scales weren't known/acknowledged then so more movement was expected. Henrietta Leavitt, one of these analysts, actually discove...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvfyn8/
Isn't that the case for everything? It's just our eyes have a very small distance between the points.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvfh32/
I love that infograph: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Comparison_optical_telescope_primary_mirrors.svg > Overwhelmingly Large Telescope - (cancelled)
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvf40n/
The fact that we have an actual digital photo from the 1800's is evident enough that technology is rad. The fact that most pictures of space have been touched up as much as any models pictures ha...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckveo1x/
Both reasons are good ones.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckve8o1/
What about the The Pillars of Creation :(
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckve00f/
you are right in a way that most of these pictures are more like captured 3D graphs (or data) plotted using different wavelengths of visible light.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvdfg3/
Sure, we can paint x-ray reflective paint on a photo, but you wouldn't be able to see it and it would give you cancer. So instead we digitally convert the x-rays to a wavelength we can see with o...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvcyzg/
Probably looks a lot like the 1881 picture. Edit: from a link below
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvcvm4/
What are you meant to believe exactly? It's all real data.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvcahm/
There's an iOS app called ArtStudio that's basically GIMP.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvbupp/
I'm amazed that the first one was taken that long ago.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvbmho/
I want to see want to looks like with just visible light.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvbkuk/
Ya its funny the old picture looks more like what it would actually look like but the new shots show its heat, chemical composition, radiation output etc etc.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvb7yu/
That was awesome, thank you!
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvb5rr/
The LSST is being built for this very purpose and it's getting close to finished. Given that we're going to be capturing a much larger swath of sky, odds are we'll see many cool things before any...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvb397/
Not so, actually. Stellar parallax is quite useful in astronomy! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_parallax
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvb38o/
It's crazy how little has changed in 100 years, more than most peoples lifetimes!
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvapyi/
Well, no one said that at the time either.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvaoe6/
I always thought we just did this to make the photos look "prettier".
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvao26/
Oh, btw - according to Calvin's dad the world used to be black and white and faded to color about 1930. http://gointothelight.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/dadbandwandcolour.jpg
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvaliz/
That is becuase of 'reciprocity failure'. The silver hailide needs 3 photons (or more) to flip the molecule to 'on'. If time passes between photons it can fall back and 'forget' the photon count....
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckvahtq/
I'm guessing Photoshop mobile edit: excuse me, Photoshop Touch
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv9wiq/
Man that's what I like about reddit. You guys take things seriously and take the time to clarify things. You guys are awesome! :') And the usernames too, LaCagada...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv9b46/
They call it "false color", and it's not arbitrary. If you go to NASA's site, they explain why the colors are as they are. Hold on, let me find some for you... http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/im...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv90a9/
Most images of space aren't showing you visible light. I think folks miss that point sometimes.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv8rq9/
And now we play, The Waiting Game
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv8f24/
Thanks for saving me the trouble of doing this myself.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv8c6q/
> are not exactly true colors. That's being kind. Most of these pictures are simply NOT pictures in the sense we are meant to believe they are.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv8a2h/
The galaxy will be green by 2200!
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv88nl/
There's a difference between 'fake color' and 'false color'. Those light emissions are there; we've just mapped frequencies we can't see to frequencies we can see.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv86u8/
> ~1300 light years away I'll eat my hat if we are ever there. Even if you could travel at the speed of light, you'd still need the group of people in the vehicle to agree to the same course...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv7tt6/
Which is another example of how rad technology is. We can easily apply false colors onto a photograph to indicate non-visible emissions.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv7rhe/
This is exactly why I came into the comment section thanks!
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Shiiiit.. They're in the visible spectrum?
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv6z88/
I find it more amazing that we were able to do such a good job in 1881. In 1881 we'd not managed to make bicycles with chains. We were still trying to ride around on bicycles with huge front whee...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv6nde/
It is visible light. The photographer specified that it was an LRGB filter image and it looks exactly like it is. This photographer has created a composite image and modified the histogram, but t...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv5ugm/
I'm also interested in whaddup how you did this on your phone.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv5ou7/
Nope. It's mostly x rays and uv and infrared. Most pictures of space things are not exactly true colors.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv5njq/
It's completely crazy to me that movements like this are even noticed.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv5jq3/
Sooo ... better?
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv5hdd/
and we added the fake color.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv5c27/
What program did you use yo do that on your phone?
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv5bog/
It's exciting to think that someday we will have had cameras trained on objects in space for so long that we will be able to watch a timelapse of them evolving. Barring, of course, the arrival ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv56gb/
I immediately hoped somebody had done this and here you are. :*
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv4zal/
You could tell me it was from c. 1788 and I would believe you
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You're not wrong, but I sincerely doubt this picture was aimed at anyone but the public. The data would be far more useful in multiple pictures showing different layers at different wavelength, r...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv4ip0/
Came here to find this. so the 1881 image is much more zoomed in. Well done for 1881.. Unless it is because they had less light distortion/distraction. then... well done for them anyway.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv4igj/
So most of the nebula isn't seen with visible light?
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv4e33/
You're welcome. I would've liked to make a gif but I had only my phone to work with.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv42y1/
"Imagine a color you can't even imagine. Now do that nine more times. That is how a mantis shrimp do."
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv3mgy/
Everything changed when the colour nation attacked... Yeah that's right. 'Colour' I'm Australian. :P
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv34gy/
Is that the Smelloscope from Futurama?
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv33ta/
I honestly find it way more mind-blowing that the first picture was taken in 1881.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv2zvr/
The stars you see there are not all at the same distance to us, so they're not part of the same structure. They just move in apparently random directions with respect to each other because they'r...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv2rx1/
If it was due to the position of the Earth they would all have moved in the same direction.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv2nkk/
Is this 100% real or has colour been added? I've been disappointed before when I found out some of my favorite space pictures are mostly Photoshop.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv2ewq/
It wouldn't be position of the earth. From one side of our orbit to another is insignificant at that distance.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv28ap/
Yeah, the world was so bland before, I am told.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv21sa/
LRGB means a combination of 4 sets of images with 4 filter. L stands for luminance, and is a clear looking filter which blocks IR and UV light. The R, G, B filters are just red, green and blue fo...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv21fz/
I think this one may have actually been a joke.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv216m/
Soo, did the background stars shift or is it a scaling/positioning issue?
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv1t7f/
I'm giving you gold because of just how many people missed the joke.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv1t2d/
OP is mistaken. LRGB absolutely uses visible light, and only visible light, the same part of the spectrum as our eyes. If our eyes could do long exposures the nebula would look much more like t...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv1svj/
> I doubt the stars have moved that much. Depends on the frame of reference, I suppose. In human terms, an unimaginable shit-ton. In cosmological terms, a smidge.
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super cray cray
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Everything changed once we invented color.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv1k5s/
Old guy: back in my day, we couldn't go to different planets. We had to look at them through a long tube called a telescope. Kid: life must have been really boring back then.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv1jps/
Thanks for doing this. This deserves a lot of upvotes!
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I bet it's mostly due to the position of Earth when both pictures were taken. I doubt the stars have moved that much.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv1ebk/
Nicely done
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ah thank you very much :)
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This is much worse quality. We have amateurs taking better visible light shots of M42 than this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv1bg1/
It's all visible. It's just not visible to us. I think this is an important distinction because what we're seeing is still very real.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv17i4/
I'm pretty impressed by the 1883 version. I didn't know we could see that much detail before the digital age.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv14d8/
130 years is only long to us. To the universe, it's like a couple of seconds.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv10lf/
You're the best. Thank you.
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I'm "that" guy now: Space photographs. Unless of course you are a stoner like myself who have had the same epiphany: that we're the universe looking back at itself.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv0j89/
heres what trips me out. we can take pictures like that in the 1800s???
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Nah, I figured it was a joke. I just thought an explanation was in order because I see serious comments about this subject in a lot of threads about astrophotography.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv0a93/
That picture is not from 1883. This is what it looked like in the 1880's .
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckv07zh/
I think you missed the joke, but that is a solid explanation.
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Kind of like Superman seeing radio waves and such.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuzwdg/
There are. There are even humans who can see at the very edge of the known visible spectrum.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuzu6a/
Probably also taken at different places during different times of the year
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You could tell me it was from c. 1988 and I would believe you
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That's exactly what it means. Look how Pluto was discovered: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Pluto_discovery_plates.png
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuzjkr/
This seems very likely, though I assume it could be corrected if we knew the specs on both lenses. Unlikely to have been done in this case though.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuzixx/
I have two fun facts for your inner Jaden that wil make his day: Check out these cool UV pics of flowers. They look all one color to us, but honeybees can see the bullseye that we can't becaus...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuzigw/
Did anybody say that the second picture is visible light? Visible light (or light) is electromagnetic radiation of a certain frequency. Yes, you may say that because this pictures is spectrum-shi...
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You're beautiful just the way you are! Don't let Big Science tell you otherwise! Our whole society is so overrun with the objectification of stars and galaxies!
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuzfag/
/u/Lacagada made this image which shows how much wider the field of view is in the newer picture.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuzdjq/
Galactic masses don't appear to change over hundreds of years or thousands of years but millions and hundreds of millions of years.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuzd99/
On one of the other posts about the 1800s image today, someone posted a pic he took with a DSLR yesterday morning. The colour and detail come through clearly. It's not as detailed as this one, bu...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuzckq/
I actually listen to that song when I'm feeling sad or depressed. It always reminds me that the very fact that I'm alive at all is such a remarkable thing that I cheer up immediately. Thank you f...
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Holy shit dude, totally didn't see that. Fucking proper motion! Thank you so much!
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Did you see Hubble 3d http://hubblesite.org/hubble_20/imax_hubble_3d/ ? I think that's the closest thing you can get to your wish :)
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuz293/
Not sure about the colours but mantis shrimp have lots of super hero powers
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Here you go
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuz06c/
Yes. Yes they do get photo treatment. This is the Hubble Heritage Project , all they do is alter images (like with photoshop) from the Hubble Space Telescope to make them prettier. I know this ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuyxx8/
So beautiful. I wish I could just fly through the universe and and look at stuff.
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There's more than we can see in the spectrum, some animals can see them, like the mantis shrimp
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The camera takes the picture in a certain way so there is color.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuygd0/
I tried matching them up. The 2011 image has a MUCH wider field of view when you compare them
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One of the best responses I ever heard to this question was something like this: "well, what do you mean "what they actually look like? How are you viewing them? Through an atmosphere, through a ...
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Isn't LRGB visible light? The picture you provided is a basic "what's visible at a regular-ish exposure." With better choice of exposures and filters you can get very different images that are st...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuybno/
Small update, because of some new data analysis its been shown that the Virgo supercluster as well as a few others are part of a system called the Laniakea supercluster. That system is moving tow...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuyazg/
That, plus the fact that different lenses will have different kinds of distortion.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuy8jj/
Its the astronomy media imposing unrealistic standards of beauty on space in order to sell the idea of astronomy being cool. Not saying it is not cool, but with pics like this they make it seem m...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuy5rn/
So with our distance from what is pictured, how long ago is what's pictured in the older image actually taking place ?
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Does that mean that the stars that moved are closer to us than the ones that don't move?
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Eric Idle and the Pythons said it better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWVshkVF0SY
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I'll eat a hat if we are there in 100 years. Tag me on that!
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Whoops! Sorry, I do believe they moved. I'm wondering why they're moving they're moving in the ways we can see here. What's pushing them, or pulling them? I couldn't see a pattern. Maybe it's jus...
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I wonder how much of that was star movement and how much were just the two images not being overlaid perfectly.
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It's also the effects of those particular wavelengths of light, Infrared and ultraviolet ionising the gases making it visible at optical wavelengths.
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Because they are moving?
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Because they did move. Stars and solar systems and galaxies aren't just fixed in a space. Think of it like this, the moon orbits around the Earth, the Earth orbits around the Sun, the Sun orb...
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuxliy/
Yes, it is visible light, although with a few hours worth of exposure time and modern processing methods. http://billsnyderastrophotography.com/?page_id=1796 is the original source. According ...
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I really wonder why those stars appear to be are moving like that. edit: didn't mean to give the impression that I don't think they're moving.
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It doesn't shift light for that reason. It is to gain new information from different spectrum's. Sometimes combining spectrum reveals new or unnoticed variables and our eys tend to reveal more th...
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or specially modified filtered contacts lenses.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2hplea/technology_is_rad/ckuxf5l/
Because Big Astronomy isn't really interested in capturing nebula as they appear. They're interested in figuring out what's physically going on inside the nebula. The best way to do that is throu...
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I'm really impressed that we could take pictures like this in the 1880's! Very cool stuff!
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I took a picture of M42 in visible light also, trying to keep the colors as natural as I could. http://i.imgur.com/k94ShCq.jpg
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Bloody hell, that is some impressive kit for 1883.
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You can notice some movement in the surrounding stars
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Why does Big Astronomy think that nebulae have to be colorshifted and photoshopped to be beautiful?
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I think "false color image" is the right term for this, although it is a broad term. What we are talking about here is remapping the spectrum in various ways into visible light (or specifically ...
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Doesn't seem like a whole lot has changed in the past 130 years.
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Colors are always there. Take the Sun for example, it looks white but only because it emits every color. Green, Red, Yellow, Blue etc. Add a filter and other colors that we cant see become more...
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Thank you! This is what I came to the comments hoping to see :)
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An even better find: http://www.laas.org/joomlasite/index.php/monthly-meetings/169-articles/vance-tyree
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This is fucking awesome, Its incredible how far technology has come, I cannot wait to see the nebula in the future with even better camerias
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Unless you viewing it through some kind of filtered magnification glass as you speed a few billion miles away on your fancy space vessel thing.
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Confused. LRGB is visible light, is it not?
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Made this: http://i.imgur.com/1dz5VHr.gif
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Technology is amazing, but the people that invented it all are the true heroes.
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you mean, the position of the Sun to other stars?
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makes me sad to know that even if any of us were to see it in person, it wouldn't look the way it does in IR. or whatever you crazy kids call it.
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Sure, but it should still be possible to identify some of the stars, and use that to match it up with another visible light picture. I'm going to try that tomorrow, but feel free to beat me to it...
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So we were not too off over 100 years ago
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Reminds me of a loading screen to a video game; how it starts black and white, and as it loads the colors start to come to. Very cool! An excellent submission for r/woahdude . Cheers!
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Taken with the technology available at that time
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it is less different than the orion nebula pic that is in the submission image...
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Different scale, and bear in mind that the position of earth to the sun have changed in the past 130 years. Also, the equipment used to take the first photo couldn't give much details for you to ...
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I saw this pic in the last post too. It's a shitty example of what you can do with visible light. If you check out /r/astrophotography you will see much better ones. Mostly amateur.
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I can't quite get the two pictures to match, so it is hard to compare them. I tried to identify stars that are in both pictures, but didn't find a good match at all, so I guess these have quite a...
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Yeah your example, how did the color get there without adding it?
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Just to be nitpicky, though, these are edited photos. The photo was taken to capture a spectrum of light not visible to the human eye, and then altered/shifted to a color spectrum that is. These ...
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except when Xeno comes into the picture... Stupid Xeno always ruining selfies with it's tentacles... getting sick of your shit XENO!
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Kind of makes me want my money back for my Mcalister's Deli monster spud meal.
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He took this picture using the Crossley Reflector telescope More info about it
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Also awesome.
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A very big "potato"
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Space selfies!
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Nope, it's just narrowband filters that allow only the light of the nebula through. It dramatically increases the contrast. Combined with extremely light-sensitive electronics and a long exposure...
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It depends on the image. A few are in real colors, but most of the time they're either shifted from x-rays/infrared to visible light, bumped up in contrast, or both.
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We'll be THERE :D
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It's not visible light. Here's the visible light version http://i.imgur.com/9538BgN.jpg
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They do not get "colored" after being taken, they don't get any photo treatment at all, these colors are not visible to the eye, for they were taken using special equipment that capture UV, IR, R...
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I was under the impression that most images taken of off deep space are coloured after the "image" is taken.... am I wrong or what?
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Let's see where we are in another 100 years.
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Is the second picture visible light? Looks more like spectrum-shifted infrared.
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Correction: The top picture was taken by Andrew Ainslie Common on January 30th, 1883.
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