They are great pictures, but that slideshow transition effect is terrible! It ruins the impact of the next picture in the show for the first few seconds. Considering this is all about impact and photography, that's a poor use of tech.
I agree really - 'they' move from one photo directly to a crop of the next, and then go to the whole image
Well, "you can't please everyone ... " etc. etc. etc. I find the slide show effect quite satisfying, myself. Anyway...
For the 'doubters', I can speak for those who have taken up astroimaging: processing the data from your camera to get a viewable image, is all part of the hobby. In fact many amateurs spend far more time
processing than they do actually
taking photos at the telescope. It's all part of the game! For instance, most of the deep sky images (those of nebulae and galaxies) in this selection, were taken using a mono CCD camera. Not something I use myself, I just use an ordinary DSLR camera (CCDs are very pricy!), but the really serious imagers go in for this ultra-sensitive medium to get the really top-notch results. Because it's a monochrome camera* you can't shoot colour directly, you have to take images through coloured filters and then 'marry' the results together in photoshop or similar, to recreate the original colours and enhance them too. Voila! The colours are strongly emphasised because the human eye, even looking through a powerful telescope, can't actually see that depth of colour: nearly everything looks sort of grey. Try it. But the colours are a great help in recognising the structure of the object in the image.
If you think that's 'cheating' - fine, I can't stop you!
*Single-shot colour CCD's do exist. Not everyone uses them.
