I've been meaning to check out this early release Euclid data. It's pretty amazing. I've been watching the image releases and feel like they have a few issues with color balance and clipped histograms. After some investigating I still think that's true. Here's a roughly processed image. You can compare them yourself and see if you agree. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2024/05/Euclid_s_new_image_of_star-forming_region_Messier_78
There are a lot of different ways to check your processing for color balance, but I think one of the more fun ones is to take a look at the diffraction spikes. With well separated wideband data, it always comes out colored like a rainbow. If your diffraction spikes aren't prismatic, things might be off (or you might have a really red star.)
@AkaSci That's a good question that I do not have the answer to. After a cursory search around the internet I can't seem to find an artifacts and anomalies article or page from a handbook anywhere. Not sure where to look.
a simple webpage that adds an extra url parameter to your search to return a de-enshittified list of results –– or at least as de-enshittified as Google results can be nowadays.
@futurebird i've got this whole fake intern character built in my mind. hard up for cash, takes the job, puts in as much subversive trolling as possible. but yeah it probably was someone who genuinely thought it was cool along with whoever did the direction and whoever else signed off on it...
This Sunday (April 14) on CNN at 8:00 p.m. EDT - "The James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?"
Presented by Kristin Fisher on "The Whole Story" with Anderson Cooper.
Kristin Fisher: "We’ve spent two years following 2 teams as they became some of the first scientists to ever work with Webb. Thrilled their stories will air on Sunday!"
It will be followed by the 2-part finale of "Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight."
@thomasfuchs@andresmh@citp@PrincetonCS countless human years of refining techniques and observations passed from one generation to the next only for an algorithm to come and spew out a three legged elefootrunk with a floating lamp post and fake flowers and apparently even a fake nassau hall because the masonry and architecture is all f'ed up and it looks nothing like any photos
Brought the stars back after isolating them to their own layer so they wouldn't add up and be super bright since they're all in the same spots over the years unlike the nebula. Also added a 2005 observation. Unsure if I want to add more or just stop here.
"Good morning Sir...this is the invitation to attend a multi-cultural initiative to promote a dialogue between science and spirituality in an unbiased way...would you please join us....by the way it's going be hosted in a MONASTERY WITH MONKS"
etc etc
No, thanks no!
My bottom line here is that no, I think that while people have their spirtuality, there should be no legitimacy for an equal ground dialogue between science and sprituality.
@hfalcke@franco_vazza@NatureMC one hard thing I learned as an atheist is we are far too willing... eager, even, to give up all sense of soul and god to organized religion. it's worthwhile and useful to redefine it and take it back in a way that suits yourself... well, not in a way that imposes on other folks, I mean.