"stbenge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> schreef in bericht 
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> alphaQuad wrote:
>>
>> Not much to see in the visible spectrum
>>
>> Detail in the visible wavelength is not as good as others so they take 
>> pictures
>> in the other wavelengths. The new detail gets a color, which could only 
>> be
>> "false" by default.
>
> Yeah, the visible spectrum is a sliver compared to everything else. 
> Nebulae *are* lit by stars, aren't they? Surely there must be something to 
> see, using *really* sensitive film. Night vision probably wouldn't capture 
> the real colors, so some other method would have to be used.
>

Indeed.
My point is that we are so used to see the false colour pictures that we 
*think* that is really how we would see the nebulae, from a spaceship for 
instance... Oh well, just nitpicking :-)  Those false colour images are 
gorgeous anyway! ...and they are real too!

Thomas

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