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To: pillut48

Neat but not the natural color. These are all colorized by artists. I would like to see the raw footage.


11 posted on 04/23/2010 6:15:11 PM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: edcoil

What proof do you have that Hubble cant take color photos?


23 posted on 04/23/2010 7:47:27 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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To: edcoil

Well, colorized by the astronomers. They take three or more exposures through narrowband filters, some of which are for wavelengths shorter or longer than we can see. Then, they choose visible colors and assign them to the resulting images and superimpose them, giving the dramatic chromatic effect.

To the human eye (through a powerful enough telescope), they tend to look gray and white.


24 posted on 04/23/2010 9:35:53 PM PDT by Erasmus (The Last of the Bohicans)
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