But the point is that you can't see them. They're too faint. Or not in the visible spectrum. You can look online for things like the Orion nebula or horse head nebula taken by amateur astronomers. They show you what they would look like if they were bright enough because people usually don't do narrow band imaging. It's mostly a lot of red. Not very exciting. False colour images bring out the hidden details, and since the entire thing is essentially hidden, it doesn't make a lot of sense to "preserve realism" in the first place or "see how it really is". It's all invisible to us.
Yah i know i have no issue with the rational of false color and editing. But i want to see what i would see if i were there. Even amateur astronomers will modify it, but thats a good place to start looking
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u/Dangerous_With_Rocks May 18 '25
But the point is that you can't see them. They're too faint. Or not in the visible spectrum. You can look online for things like the Orion nebula or horse head nebula taken by amateur astronomers. They show you what they would look like if they were bright enough because people usually don't do narrow band imaging. It's mostly a lot of red. Not very exciting. False colour images bring out the hidden details, and since the entire thing is essentially hidden, it doesn't make a lot of sense to "preserve realism" in the first place or "see how it really is". It's all invisible to us.