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Old 02-February-2002, 01:04 AM
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Remember that these pics are infrared, so the colors may not represent what you are used to.
Bad Astronomer: Thank you for the information. I had been thinking that the photograph had been artificially colored to show differences in composition more clearly or to separate different areas from each other.

Of course, to show it in infrared, that might force artificial coloration, because (according to my perhaps incorrect information) infrared is not actually able to be viewed in the colors of the visual spectrum? Then again, perhaps these are the visible spectrum colors which result from infrared cameras. Oh, oh, I am getting into deep scientific pseudo doo doo.... I had better stop before I contract foot-in-mouth syndrome.

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