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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks, this makes sense. I’ve heard there are some great astronomy photos where what we are seeing isn’t actually visible to the naked eye. Rather it’s invisible gases or something, and the photos are just visualizations based on assigning colors to density… I guess I was wondering if it was something like that. It sounds like it’s not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

When they sense invisible electromagnetic wavelengths like xrays or microwaves and "assign" colors to completely invisible wavelengths then that is false color imaging. Possible to do with the sun... but unlikely with an amateur rig.