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How much of the pictures in the article are processed? What does the unprocessed photo look like?
by pyinstallwoes 2y ago
How much of the pictures in the article are processed? What does the unprocessed photo look like?
- BurningFrog 2y agoAll of the Webb observations are done in infrared light, which is invisible to us humans. So the smartass answer is that it looks all black :)
- lolc 2y agoI guess the unprocessed "photos" look like multidimensional arrays of floating point numbers. Nothing a human could appreciate. The interesting question is how they are processed.
- coldpie 2y agoThe paper contains links to the raw data, descriptions of the data transformations they did, and links to some github projects, but it's all way over my head :) https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa49198-24.pdf https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa49198-24.pdf
- npteljes 2y agoIt's fully processed. The Webb sees in infrared (0.6–28.3 μm), and the human eye sees in visible spectrum, which is like 380,000 - 750,000 μm, so not the same ballpark at all. I believe that the nebula cannot be seen with the naked eye at all. It can be photographed though, but it only becomes visible after combining and processing many long exposures.