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Markus Pössel
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Astronomy outreach (Tweets in German & English) - personal account - he/his - works for @hausderastronomie.bsky.social @astro4edu.bsky.social @mpi-astro.bsky.social - obsessed with German definite articles if you believe the Google Scholar word cloud
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As always when doing the contrast stretching at the end, I'm struck by just how unnatural those galaxy images are. In a more realistic linear mapping of brightness-in-the-sky to image brightness, you see nothing in that image. Only when you tease out the teeny-tiny region of contrast 3/

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that separates the galaxy from the background do you get an image like that. Which is absolutely misleading, brightness-wise. Very good to see the structure, of course. 4/

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Astronomy outreach (Tweets in German & English) - personal account - he/his - works for @hausderastronomie.bsky.social @astro4edu.bsky.social @mpi-astro.bsky.social - obsessed with German definite articles if you believe the Google Scholar word cloud
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