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For myself, I find the view through a telescope generally boring. The eye is extremely limited when viewing astronomical targets; Apart from personal impressions (which are quite subejctive) there are however evident cases when human eye see much better. These are, for example, globular clusters. C...

Now in many cases we can look at these beautiful pictures like the one of Solar Corona by Koen van Gorp shown on July 26, 2009 and think perhaps it is beautiful but not true. What I would say is that the image is not only beautiful, but more true than many other images because it actually shows mor...

Taking photographic processing "too far" is when you start enhancing noise, calling it information, and showing features that aren't there . The solar corona picture in APOD 2009 July 26 is certainly not in that category. There is this very delicate difference between what "was there...

"WYSIWYG=or photography without borders" The magnificent picture of the Corona of the Sun shown on July 26, 2009 prompted me to register to this forum. For quite a few years I observe how the software technologies lead us to better and better picture, displaying whatever we want. On the ot...