Exposing Pseudoastronomy
Episode 47: Image Processing and Anomalies, Part 1
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:52:21
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Synopsis
So many pseudoscientific claims rely on photographic evidence, and astronomy is no exception. In this Part 1 episode, I go through the basics of how an image gets from photons to pixels, the corrections we make to the image to try to get it to best represent the original, and some anomalies that can result.