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Soi Mala
Whacky Waving Inflatable Flailing Arm Tubemen
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Posted - 2011.09.16 12:57:00 -
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Cedille Mureau wrote:Now I may be wrong about this but aren't those pictures of nebulae, galaxies and such like that we all see and admire taken with a telescope i.e. Hubble?
What you would probably see in space with the naked eye is pretty white specks in a black sky.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all for pretty but sometimes wish that the space we fly through looked a little blacker and sparse and less like an Earth sky just before a thunderstorm.
It will be interesting to see what they come up with when it all arrives though.
Depends on your distance from them.
But you're right in that the pictures you see aren't anything like what you'd really see. Many of them are a culmination of hours, sometimes days of exposure. For "true colour" images there will be sets of long exposures taken in red, green, and blue wavelengths, as well as luminosity (monochrome) exposures, along with noise exposures etc... All get stacked and to form a finished product that looks great, but isn't really all that realistic.
Another method that non-amateurs (read nasa and famous observatories) are famous for is to colourize invisible wavelengths such as infrared or UV, and overlay them on a "true colour" image making some quite fantastic views.
Due to the nature of the colour adapted eye, you don't see much red when viewing through a scope, your visible spectrum shortens in the direction of the green/blues. So when you look at most deep sky objects, you're likely to only see a green/grey fuzzy smudge.
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Barbelo Valentinian
The Scope
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2011.09.16 14:02:00 -
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Cedille Mureau wrote:Now I may be wrong about this but aren't those pictures of nebulae, galaxies and such like that we all see and admire taken with a telescope i.e. Hubble?
No, what it is is that they've gotten an independent team of boffins to design 4 unique nebulae using particle effects that will look much more like the real nebulae we see through Hubble than the current "painted" ones. They are fully 3-dimensional objects that will be as if "placed" in the full New Eden space. Then the "cubes" that we see around us in each solar system will be taken as snapshot .jpgs in each system (as it were) so that the view we have in each system will approximate how the nebulae would change in aspect as we move through the various systems.
Something like that, anyway 
Ingenious and (from the pics - some of which are I believe already being used as backgrounds to the forums, and in the sign-on backgrounds in EVE) much, much more realistic looking and immersive. |
Tallianna Avenkarde
Beasts of Burden
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Posted - 2011.09.16 14:11:00 -
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xxxTRUSTxxx wrote:i'd rather see the following
1. binary star systems.
have you not been to w-space?
And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell. Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell. |
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