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I agree. It’s very beautiful.

This is really nice,thank you for this

Beautiful

But also…

Looks like fake glasses and nose disguise.

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Came out much nicer than my previous attempt even though I used the exact same setup and took it from a more light-polluted location. Still lots to improve.

Equipment

• Camera: ZWO ASI533MC Pro (unity gain, -10°C)
• Telescope: William Optics Redcat 51 APO 250mm f/4.9
• Mount: Sky-Watcher AZ-GTi w/ EQ wedge
• Guide scope: ZWO Mini Guide Scope
• Guide camera: ZWO ASI120MM-Mini
• Control: ASIAIR Pro

Acquisition

• 24 January 2023
• Taken from Funchal, Madeira, Portugal (Bortle 7)
• Lights: 104 x 180s
• Darks, Flats

Processing

• PixInsight

  • WBPP
  • DynamicBackgroundExtraction
  • SpectrophotometricColorCalibration
  • BlurXTerminator
  • HistogramTransformation
  • CurvesTransformation on saturation
  • StarXTerminator
  • Star reduction using Bill Blanshan's script
  • PixelMath to combine starless and stars
  • SCNR
  • NoiseXTerminator

• Pixelmator Pro

  • Adjust highlights, shadows and black point
  • Crop

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Multiple/ stacked exposures is what I read.

We would give it the good ol college try though!

“Fire photon torpedos! Not a full spread though, we are trying to keep costs low and get maximum ROI. For the investors Number 1!”

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If we make contact with aliens its because they're able to contact us, which means they're way more technologically advanced than us.

They probably also went through some sort of an evolution process and are probably all too familiar with predation and violent power struggles, whether or not that it's in their distant past.

So they're likely equipped to cope with human hostilities and not niave enough to be caught off guard by it. We're not enslaving any extraterrestrials.

Plenty of resources out there for everyone, zero reason to compete.

I keep feeling bad for people that got slaughtered by barbarians and am thankful we didn’t live during that era but the chance of that happening to us by aliens is not likely but not zero. Nightmare fuel

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They wouldn’t be our enemies, they would be our competitors and given how we have treated our own species, let alone the other species which inhabit this planet alongside us (we ate or killed the majority of them) the likely scenario is WE would either eat, kill or enslave them.

This scenario is guaranteed if contact is made by Americans first

We would probably eat them as we have done to everything else on this planet

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If we can find a way to make being space friends profitable then it's possible I guess. But otherwise I think it's more likely they're declared as enemies.

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Now random thoughts come to my mind of how Europeans discovered the Americas. In my vision not to gain more knowledge, but for more power. Alas.

Mainstream media does typically give clickbaity titles to space news, but CNN did label this article "...once invisible" and yeah the IR capabilities of the Webb telescope does indead allow us to see (detect) things that were literally invisible to other telescopes like Hubble