Is astrophotography real? Is that even the right question? Maybe it's better to break things down a bit and answer smaller questions... like are colors real? OK, that might not be a smaller question, but it can help us answer the first one.

0:00 Introduction
0:54 Let's focus on color
1:38 Rods vs. Cones and Brightness
3:06 Why we need more than one cone
4:33 Human cones
5:21 Silly trichromatic color vision demo
6:18 Color Opponency
10:09 Silly Color Opponency Demo
11:16 Colors are fake?! Not entirely
14:58 Knowledge is power
16:00 End stuff


Links to articles cited in the video:

1) https://www.weizmann.ac.il/brain-scie...
2) https://journals.physiology.org/doi/a...
3) https://opg.optica.org/josaa/fulltext...

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Try the sharpening tool I made! Download it from GitHub here:

https://github.com/deepskydetail/Astr...

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