I realize I should have mentioned that I was referring to the “Full Size” view
not the initial page with image details, which clearly has a gray, not black,
background.
On Dec 1, 2018, at 9:08 PM, Jim Warthman <jwarthmanLists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Spectacular, Bernard! Truly a moving image!
I have a question about the background of the image, the area between the
stars. It’s truly dark - even darker than the web page background, which
itself seems “black” but apparently isn't. Looking at the pixel values, the
space between stars is actually blacker than the page background. This makes
the galaxy really “pop”, which adds greatly to the impact.
Aesthetically I like this very much! So often I see photographs where the
dark sky is more a shade of gray. I suppose that’s because of the many many
stars in the background on such images, but I really don’t know.
In any case, I wonder if you could (ahem!) shed some light on how this image
came to have such a deep black between the stars?
Best Regards,
Jim
On Dec 1, 2018, at 8:08 PM, Bernard Miller <bgmiller011@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
This is an image of NGC 1365, also known as the Great Barred Spiral Galaxy.
It is a barred spiral galaxy about 60 million light years away in the
constellation Fornax. It is the dominant member of the Fornax cluster of
galaxies and spans about 200,000 light years in diameter making it about
twice as large as the Milky Way. Martin Pugh did the image capture and I did
the image processing.
Suggestions and comments welcomed.
http://www.azstarman.net/CDK/NGC1365.htm
Thanks,
Bernard
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