I was quite surprised how many people think published space pictures are phony.?

Question

Do you think the computer processing that brings out detail and use of filters to show certain wavelengths constitutes "phony?"

This was the photo that brought charges of "fake."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18082430/

Answer 1

sometimes people are just strange
they just believe what they see with their own eyes.
To the extend: A persons reality happens to be in every person itself, so my reality is a different than yours, cause we both tend to interpret things different based on experience.

People who usually look into the night sky do not see structures like in the photo with their own eyes. So its a matter of believe.
This photo higly suggest to have some sort of manipulation in it for the unexperienced observer, cause people have seen hundreds of photos before where light is reflecting from a bright spot on a photo like that.
So the first impression is: UH a lens effect .. its crap

Less people have ever seen a photo of Eta Carinae, which is possibly the same scenario going on with a star but shot from a different viewing angle.

in these days its just normal to reprocess images, but for the sake of being authentic, people explain what has been used on processing the original data. So its possible to have some evidence about wether its authentic or not.

having already ranted about peoples inner self and their unwillingness or lazyness to step back for seeing the whole thing, i can just point out that the internet or any other form of mass media especially in the US leads to some side-effects which already starts being problematic.
as an example: "did we land on the moon ?"
this makes me sick and i could rant about this phenomena for hours but this question wasn't really intended to do so, i think

so finally thank you for pointing us to this great picture, i think i gonna browse the web for some serious (i hope) science along with that.

Answer 2

No, it does not constitute fakery at all. Using filters certainly doesn't constitute faking a picture, because all that does is highlight something that is already there. Does making a black and white picture constitute faking because it's restricted to luminance?

Computer processing to enhance images is not faking either. However, care must be taken because the processing can introduce artifacts (things like 'suncruisers' and artificial structures on the Moon are usually no more than artifacts caused by the image gathering technique or processing). The people who use the techniques to produce the pictures are aware of the limitations of the techniques, however.

In terms of using the images to derive scientific conclusions requires knowledge of the methods and their limitations. As far as the average joe is concerned, who cares as long as the pictures looks nice and is a reasonable representation of reality?

Answer 3

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Answer 4

People love conspiracy "theories". In this day and age it is easy to produce fake photos, but that doesn't make all space photos fake.

I know several people too who believe the moon landing was faked. But, I can't explain why they believe that. The only reason I can "think" of is that they are "believing" something and not "thinking".

Answer 5

Some people don't believe in love either. That doesn't make Love any less real!


Hope is a natural by-product of Love, Pandora

Answer 6

i belive those things. i mean think about it and it really does make sense. i used to think that it doesnt until i entered earth science classes and when i really thought about the stuff we were being taught, it really does make sense!!