tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post5676281980301549509..comments2024-03-25T14:09:59.347-05:00Comments on Augoeides: Now THAT'S Saturn!Scott Stenwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-31764295616222734332011-09-12T01:49:16.364-05:002011-09-12T01:49:16.364-05:00Track the (Source) link back from Yahoo and the te...Track the (Source) link back from Yahoo and the text accompanying the picture says it's an exaggerated color image. Then the article ignores that entirely, so I'd say the omission is Yahoo's mistake. Either other articles are citing this one as a source or more than one outlet has made the same mistake reporting on it.<br /><br />Anyway, it's super-cool, media cluelessness notwithstanding.Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-89511069897325721802011-09-11T21:31:00.429-05:002011-09-11T21:31:00.429-05:00It's one of those cases where I wish I could t...It's one of those cases where I wish I could track back to see where the claim started. NASA's photojournal site explains it's a composite (it's 27 small pictures put together) and exaggerated colour image, but almost all news stories say it's non-enhanced and what we'd see.<br /><br />Totally agree it's still awesome and beautiful. As for the CGI comment all I can think of is Feynman's comment "Nature's imagination is so much bigger than man's." We've barely scratched the surface of the local solar region and there is so much beauty and weirdness, it's brilliant and humbling.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-19478658057815861552011-09-11T17:56:31.847-05:002011-09-11T17:56:31.847-05:00Thanks for the info. From the article it sounded l...Thanks for the info. From the article it sounded like they were saying it was a regular non-enhanced image.<br /><br />Still, it's pretty awesome that it looks like it should be CGI but is in fact better than just about everything I've seen the FX folks put on film in real life.Scott Stenwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12389664381513219613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7294505416127496842.post-68846278206252615852011-09-11T16:08:20.577-05:002011-09-11T16:08:20.577-05:00To be an astronomy nerd/jerk that's actually n...To be an astronomy nerd/jerk that's actually not what Saturn looks like from that angle. It's an "exaggerated colour image" which means (by NASA's own definition) "Color in the view was created by digitally compositing ultraviolet, infrared and clear filter images and was then adjusted to resemble natural color." So a lot of that image actually exists outside the physical capacity of humans to see. I still love the picture and love most of the Cassini shots but most of the press on the picture being what we'd see is wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com