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Aug 8, 2012 52 min

Episode 47: Image Processing and Anomalies, Part 1

from Exposing PseudoAstronomy Hosted by Stuart Robbins

So many pseudoscientific claims rely on photographic evidence, and astronomy is no exception. In this Part 1 episode, I go through the basics of how an image gets from photons to pixels, the corrections we make to the image to try to get it to best represent the original, and some anomalies that can result.

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