Starship Asterisk*

Hi and welcome to Vicent. This is a great example of a processed digital image that winds up so dreamy-looking that it might be classified as a work of art. The original question does remain though. My screen is too small to see the entire large format picture at once, but it seems if I trace out t...

bystander wrote: Thanks, Vicent. Welcome to Asterisk and congratulations on your APOD. Great work, I hope to see more of it.

btw, you now share an anniversary with adrianxw.

Thanks for your wellcomming messaje. And happy birthday adrianxw!

A photograph is a picture taken with an optical camera. I suspect the image we are discussing was perhaps constructed with radio telescope information .. but it's definitely not an optical image, not that this is important to any but us purists. FYI, this are the transmission curves of the filters ...

I just wish a photograph was a photograph instead of an artist's conception, which this one obviously is. I hope your not implying the image is falsified in some way. Most (if not all) color images of the cosmos are enhanced is some way. The fact that they are color is an attribute of that enhancem...