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To: sig226

On average . . . how many of the Hubble photos posted hereon are natural colors?


8 posted on 07/04/2008 6:39:24 AM PDT by Quix (WE HAVE THE OIL NOW http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3340274697167011147)
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To: Quix; sig226
The Meaning of "Color" in Hubble Images:
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/meaning_of_color/index.php
9 posted on 07/04/2008 6:52:34 AM PDT by ETL (Plenty of REAL smoking-gun evidence on the demonRats at my FR home page)
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To: Quix
how many of the Hubble photos posted hereon are natural colors?

None. The colors have to be reconstructed from multispectral data. Come to think of it, this could also be said of color photography. Natural colors must be seen directly by the eye, not by looking at some artist's impression.

11 posted on 07/04/2008 7:36:20 AM PDT by RightWhale (I will veto each and every beer)
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To: Quix
Almost all of them are enhanced or manipulated. Even if their only manipulation is to make a long exposure, the image produced is no longer what the human eye can see.
This is what you would see if you looked through a telescope at the Ring Nebula, M57.

A composite image is made of several exposures stacked on top of each other. It enhances the colors.

Hubble image of the same thing:

This was created using different black and white exposures which were filtered to collect light in different colors. The colors were replaced when the image was assembled.

13 posted on 07/04/2008 8:07:45 AM PDT by sig226 (Real power is not the ability to destroy an enemy. It is the willingness to do it.)
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