07-24-2022, 07:20 AM
(07-13-2022, 10:42 PM)fredtoast Wrote: That could be completely fake and no one would ever know.
There is no one to say "Hey, that's not how it looks through my telescope."
How Webb’s photos are colorized
"Webb’s images are moved up the electromagnetic spectrum from a part we can’t perceive into the visible light part that we can see.
They take mono brightness images from Webb using up to 29 different narrowband filters, each of which detects different wavelengths of infrared light. They them assign each filter’s collected light a different visible color, from the reddest red light has the longest wavelength) to blue (which has the shortest wavelength). They then create a composite image."
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2022/07/18/yes-nasa-did-manipulate-the-webb-telescopes-first-color-images-last-week/?sh=70e6033a3e41
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