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Re: Photo challenge: what is your latitude?
From: Luc Van den Borre
Date: 2025 Mar 20, 08:32 -0700
From: Luc Van den Borre
Date: 2025 Mar 20, 08:32 -0700
> So why was the astronomy in this image so difficult?
Other than the low resolution, they edited the image to brighten the lower magnitude stars, messing with our pattern recognition.
Look what 'Clarity' and 'Dehaze' do in this example of editing night sky photos: https://youtu.be/ob9X6jx7iv4?t=440
Luc