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Shorpy is amazing, they have some pictures from my city that are so clear you feel like you could step right into them!
 

I visit several channels on irc, some are chat others have music or books.
by the way --there are no color photos taken of space, the actual photo is b/w and enhanced by the use of color filters for the particular wave length of light.
 
Deucemoi said:
I visit several channels on irc, some are chat others have music or books.
by the way --there are no color photos taken of space, the actual photo is b/w and enhanced by the use of color filters for the particular wave length of light.
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Just so you'll know, here's a link to a color camera for astronomy. They are commonly used by amateurs. Stars can vary from orange to blue, and nebulae show color with long exposures. Professional astronomers use false colors to highlight different wavelengths, some of which are beyond the range of human vision.

Don
 
I add in to my earlier post about space photos being only b/w, by stating that 99.9 percent of photos presented to the general public as photos of stars, galaxies, planets, asteroids, comets, etc,etc taken by NASA using the hubble telescope are B/W and are colorized with the use of wavelength filters. They may also be enhanced to show particular properties.

"There are no "natural color" cameras aboard the Hubble and never have been. The optical cameras on board have all been digital CCD cameras, which take images as grayscale pixels.

Sometimes the color is as natural as possible. However, the color given to the images is not just "artistic embellishment." The images are, indeed, downloaded as black and white, and color is added for a number of different reasons – for example, to show the dispersion detail of chemical elements and highlight features so subdued that the human eye cannot see them."
 

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