[allendale]

So what do you think you are really seeing? You are seeing constructed images made by people using software programs. Those images may or may not conform what to what a human eye may perceive if it had a chance to witness the real images directly. Of course the manufactured images are stunning and beautiful and sure to generate more funding.

[dragnet2]

Those images may or may not conform what to what a human eye may perceive

IR, LP filters, long exposures, even the optics, can see what the eye can't or what the eye may or may not perceive. Is this a bad thing?

[dragnet2]

This is a globular star cluster M13. Do you consider this a manufactured or constructed image created by a software program? If so could you explain how this was manufactured and constructed by a computer program and what the difference is between seeing this directly in an eyepiece with the human eye, as opposed to the digital image below?