--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "shempmcgurk" <shempmcgurk@> > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > > > Remarkable pictures from Hubble: > > > > > > http://heritage.stsci.edu/2006/46/index.html > > > > > > "Closeup" view: > > > > > > http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061024.html > > > > > > > Unbelievably beautiful and inspiring. > > I wish I could get my visual system to read this > kind of Hubble picture as a *photo*, of something > that really exists, but it persists in reading > them as more like paintings. I can't get the > intellectual knowledge that they're photos to > transfer to the part of my mind that tells me > what I'm seeing. >
They're not photos, per se. They are composites that have been color-enhanced for esthetic purposes for publicity. The untouched Hubble photos are extremely bland. http://www.hinduonnet.com/2005/02/20/stories/2005022001772000.htm To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
