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by mmontes
Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:34 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Mars and a Colorful Lunar Fog Bow (2010 Feb 02)
Replies: 32
Views: 9472

Re: Mars and a Colorful Lunar Fog Bow (2010 Feb 02)

Right of course on the general statement about captions as well as what would be a better caption. In order to write a satisfactory caption, the editors need enough information about the image and it's processing. A reading of the caption suggests that they did not have that. But I am unfamiliar wit...
by mmontes
Tue Feb 02, 2010 5:56 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Mars and a Colorful Lunar Fog Bow (2010 Feb 02)
Replies: 32
Views: 9472

Re: Mars and a Colorful Lunar Fog Bow (2010 Feb 02)

Instead of "... all the colors of the rainbow were somehow visible here", should have said something like "careful digital processing of the image was able to show all the colors of the rainbow" and emphasized that it would not look this way to a person with a mark-1 eyeball. A b...
by mmontes
Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:14 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Mars and a Colorful Lunar Fog Bow (2010 Feb 02)
Replies: 32
Views: 9472

Re: Mars and a Colorful Lunar Fog Bow (2010 Feb 02)

And yet both the original that looks like we would see, and this one both say "unedited". They look so similar, the one currently at his site and at APOD must have been edited with Photoshop or other software, right? Given the fog, it is hard to see how you can end up with the image at APO...
by mmontes
Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:51 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Mars and a Colorful Lunar Fog Bow (2010 Feb 02)
Replies: 32
Views: 9472

Re: Mars and a Colorful Lunar Fog Bow (2010 Feb 02)

A link on his site shows what appears to be the same image, unedited, with a typical fogbow. See
http://www.astropics.com/moonbow-haleakala-1393.html . Why would a longer exposure show separation of colors?