I'm beginning to wonder. The Ring shot here shows considerable fine-frequency detail, but look the the bright star, the diffraction effects. I'm wondering if some of that isn't rubbing off on the nebula details?
https://esawebb.org/images/weic2320b/
I'm beginning to wonder. The Ring shot here shows considerable fine-frequency detail, but look the the bright star, the diffraction effects. I'm wondering if some of that isn't rubbing off on the nebula details?
https://esawebb.org/images/weic2320b/
On Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:05:33 -0700 (PDT), RichA
<rander3128@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm beginning to wonder. The Ring shot here shows considerable
fine-frequency detail, but look the the bright star, the
diffraction effects. I'm wondering if some of that isn't rubbing
off on the nebula details?
https://esawebb.org/images/weic2320b/
No. We see the diffraction around the star, which is orders of
magnitude brighter than any of the ring structure. Diffraction from
ring structure well below the noise level.
On 8/21/23 8:05 PM, RichA wrote:
I'm beginning to wonder. The Ring shot here shows considerable fine-frequency detail, but look the the bright star, the diffraction effects. I'm wondering if some of that isn't rubbing off on the nebula details?
https://esawebb.org/images/weic2320b/My oh my, getting a little picky, aren't we? What about all of the
wonderful astronomical objects that it has been resolving like never
before?
On 22/08/2023 01:34, Chris L Peterson wrote:
On Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:05:33 -0700 (PDT), RichA
<rander3128@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm beginning to wonder. The Ring shot here shows considerable
fine-frequency detail, but look the the bright star, the
diffraction effects. I'm wondering if some of that isn't rubbing
off on the nebula details?
https://esawebb.org/images/weic2320b/
No. We see the diffraction around the star, which is orders of
magnitude brighter than any of the ring structure. Diffraction from
ring structure well below the noise level.
That is true enough but I think that there may be some very slight >amplification of linear features that are aligned with the main
diffraction spikes (and attenuation of those aligned with the nulls).
It is way more subtle than adding features though. Incidentally the
website rendering of the image has terrible contrast and is cropped if
you copy the image and paste into your favourite editor there is a lot
more detail further out that you can see quite clearly.
To my eyes at least the linear structures appear slightly more well
defined at PA 0, 60, 120 and a but weaker at PA 30, 90, 150
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