The computer thinks this is a galaxy!

• by ironic

  Another fuzzy, out of focus, noisy, ill-defined object; what should I categorize this as? Just an artefact?

  Posted January 7, 2017 5:59 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  If you really can't see anything, classify as star/artifact.

  Posted January 7, 2017 6:39 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  And have you seen this blog post ? : http://tinyurl.com/j6frzzx

  Hope this helps !

  Posted January 7, 2017 7:46 PM

• by ironic in response to ElisabethB's comment.

  Thanks for the URL; I was puzzled by the Ferengi reference (galaxy with large, sensitive ears that will do anything for deep-fried latium?), and despite reading the suggested post, still not sure I entirely understand how or why the object is made to look more distant by this post-processing operation...

  Ian

  Posted January 7, 2017 11:23 PM