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• Refraction alters wavelength + light noise. : twifosp
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  I see colors in my telescope. Jupiter... Saturn, Venus... all colored. : drucifer
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    ah? cool! I was just reading that objects mostly come in black and white. What kind of telescopes do you... : mnok
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      I have an old Tasco from the 60's with wooden legs... I haven't used it in years. : drucifer
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        and Tasco's used to be good back then. : drucifer
        • this is someone else's, but mine is the same kit http://www.pbase.com/smokedaddy/image/84810438 : drucifer
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      What kind of telescope was that article talking about? Was it maybe talking about digital ones that capt... : DinK
      • Meade LX-200 : mnok
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    What about Uranus? : alphablu
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      Peach. His was bleached : redfive
      • hey, I write the jokes here >:( : drucifer
    • http://www.shackpics.com/files/goodparksnrec_qd2ifhx3y6m293t9vt0w.jpg : Joseph
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  Most astronomy photography is false color. : mlev
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    That really depends on distance and wavelength. A lot of REALLY long range astronomy is radio based, and... : batkiwi
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      Wouldn't that be color correction? The wavelengths change because of the doppler effect I thought. : robosextoid
      • I think it's mostly false color. The captions will often say which gases or wavelengths or whatever each... : DinK
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        Its not color correction because the telescopes aren't looking at visible light (radio telescopes). Thus its a translation of EM radiation outside of our visible spectrum to something that's visible. That's why its a false color.

        Feb 23, 2010 5:05pm PST
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        Its not color correction because the telescopes aren't looking at visible light (radio telescopes). Thus... : hadronflux
        • Err.. some of the light is not visible.. Not necessarily all, like my above post implies. : hadronflux
      • A lot of celestial objects emit radio waves directly, plus they're easier to detect since they pass throu... : rudds
• I got one for Xmas from my wife. It's able to hook up to the internet. Weather has been so shitty I haven... : bozer
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  Hijack. Does anyone do night sky photography? I bought my first DSLR and wondered how cool it would be ... : Rasnowl
  • I know one way is to "piggyback" a DSLR on a telescope. Some telescope have a GPS and are able to track s... : mnok
  • it's pretty easy. You can do it with just a tripod and a zoom lens with some of the higher megapixel came... : deadfish
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  You're doing something wrong. http://www.meade.com/support/see.html Tons of color photos taken with... : batkiwi
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    I know about colors through photography. I'm talking about using the eye optic when someone personally lo... : mnok
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      it's faint, but you can see color. the photography just gathers more light, so you can see it better. : drucifer
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        ^^^gathers light for a living : porp
        • it's more of a hobby : drucifer
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  I see colors all the time.. Planets, stars, comets (Comet Lulin looked green).. Deep space objects mainl... : braker
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    The problem with most beginner astronomers is that they expect to just look through a telescope and see o... : Drewus
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      I'm not even a beginner astronomer...but I read somewhere that you need to use peripheral vision to see t... : Rasnowl
      • Yeah, that works with things like seeing the big red spot on jupiter if you're using a weak telescope. : Drewus
      • It's called averted vision. It's useful in seeing detail in objects that are faint. Another technique i... : braker
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  What? You're just using optics to magnify an image. I see colours just fine. : Drewus
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    I got this from : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlnEg7eN-QM The guy mentions " All images are t... : mnok
    • >:( : drucifer