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Old 12-29-2016, 07:37 AM   #2
Snakeadelic
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I call minor shenanigans! I've been reading Astronomy Image of the Day for years, plus surfing their entire archive back into the late 1990s when .gif images built dot-by-dot by detail-crazed coders were the big thing in images, which is why I can say I've seen enough sky pics to call shenanigans.

The mountains are real, and the lighting is accurate for late-night long exposure photos. The skies are real...but everything is the wrong size. And color--nebulae only go that kind of vivid pink/red when filters are applied to identify elements (usually hydrogen, sulfur, and oxygen). The one with the dirty orange-ish splotch, that's what most nebulae look like without filtering. Not all, but most.

And I'm pretty sure the Andromeda Galaxy is not that visually large from anywhere on Earth. Maybe someone who's not half dead from some viral crapola in the wake of too many antibiotics can do an archive search on APOD to see if I'm right about that.
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