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Our astro club praises saturated star clusters, but I see a problem.
Everyone posts these intense, processed shots where the colors pop way more than in real life. I feel this editing crosses a line and misleads people about what's actually out there. Is it right to alter cosmic images so much for likes and shares?
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casey_smith26d ago
Remember when my buddy showed his kid a real star cluster and she said it looked broken?
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logan2051mo ago
Hubble images are processed too. It's fine.
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gibson.elizabeth1mo ago
Exactly. So much of what we see now is touched up in some way. Phone pictures get a filter, videos have color tweaks, even home show listings use wide-angle lenses to make rooms look huge. It's just how we share things now. The space pics follow the same rule... making raw data into something we can actually look at.
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