Re: [APML] Science in Astrophotos

[Chuck Vaughn <aa6g@aa6g.org>]

Frank,
 
> science is done to improve and fit a theory. magnitude of stars can be used to
> determine stellar lifetimes and hence stellar evoution. the exact color of an
> object does nothing except create a pretty picture on a computer. nice, might
> be art, but not science.

So would you and Torsten also say that color images assembled from data
returned from various planetary spacecraft are just pretty pictures and no
science can had from them?

Chuck <aa6g@aa6g.org>



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