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by xioxox
379 days ago
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That's not right. I'm an astronomer, and I often look at colour images and colleagues do, too. For example, the galaxies in a cluster of galaxies follow a relation of colours - brightness (the "red sequence"), which can be used to detect the cluster. The eye is also quite good at helping confirm a cluster by spotting the galaxies following this sequence. I also use colour images to help identify spectral changes that change across an image, in my case in the X-ray waveband. |
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There are edge cases in which astronomers will load up images at multiple wavelengths and overlay them, but this is not the normal case. By and large, they're looking at a single channel at a time. Even more commonly than that, they're working with catalogs automatically generated from images.