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Obligatory comment that bray fals has been caught making up data ie, using Photoshop to paint detail in fals-1, the supposed new discovery that was actually alr
by dmead 1y ago
Obligatory comment that bray fals has been caught making up data ie, using Photoshop to paint detail in fals-1, the supposed new discovery that was actually already in some survey data.
Fun fact, Bray was the second jtw trident user in North America. I think I was the first.
Also, bit weird you can't come set up your own telescope.
- tbagman 1y agoEvidence?
- throwaway31131 1y agoI don't really know too much about this but apparently he calls himself an astrophotographer and not an astronomer, so maybe the use of photoshop isn't all that surprising. https://www.bbcearth.com/news/extreme-night-sky-with-bray-falls https://www.bbcearth.com/news/extreme-night-sky-with-bray-fa...
- dmead 1y agohis images on consumer hardware have smaller details than the hubble or meter wide telescopes on the ground. he says it's his processing skill, but it's probably really because he (at some stage of the process) puts his images through topaz denoise which invents detail.