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Originally Posted by RickS
Actually, the fundamental reason we stretch raw CCD images is to make them more like the naked eye would see them. A CCD has a linear response. Our eyes have a logarithmic response.
The "PixInsight" philosophy is that masking and manipulating is fine but the masks must be derived from the data. Painting a mask is a heinous crime 
Cheers,
Rick. |
True - but we are revealing much more than the naked eye could ever see when we stretch an image.
We can hardly even see our own Milky Way - it's so dim -
except if we are in a very dark site.