http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind...x1963;1144733]
No!!
These are images, usually taken with long exposures. As your eye cannot do long exposures, visual use is very different, much fainter and almost always monochrome as there is not enough light to activate the colour receptors in your eyes.
Have a look at some of Alex's and others sketches in the sketching thread (
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=73111) to get a bit of an idea of what visual astronomy looks like.
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Thanks, I think...feel a bit let down now, even just read the Hubble can't see colours!
The whole universe is just black and white? Mars only became red in 1977 and Jupiters red spot is maybe not red?
Another great let down....
