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Originally Posted by Peter Ward
Well, following on from what I stated earlier, when you add colours that are not even part of the human visual spectrum to an image you can certainly generate some striking imagery.
...but that's the rub....it's "imagery" and not a view we'd see with a warm human eye.
And it can be fun highlighting a particular ionization region etc. The downside is many think the view is "real"....i.e that's what you see staring out of the bridge of the Starship Enterprise.
Fun sure. Colours of nature? No, they are simply artistic license.
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Hi Peter,
I've thought about this.
We are right inside the Milky Way yet the only colours we see
with the naked eye are the colours of different stars - not any nebulosity.
Even with a large Newt. observers at the eyepiece
may only see faint colours in the Orion Nebula if they are very lucky.
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/7...or-in-nebulas/
Therefore all pictures we represent here are the result of integration
over longer periods of time than what the naked eye can perceive.
Therefore can a picture ever be real?
Yes - they are real if our eyes were better than they are with faint light.
cheers
Allan