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(1 hour ago)eggyk wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.So is this an untouched 870nm scan, or a touched 870nm scan? My version of that specific scan looks nothing like this.
It is a contrast-stretched crop of the 870 nm scan. I referred to it as untouched because it did not use any of the other techniques like PCA, multiband blending or Gaussian background normalization.
For this panel, it was:
- Rotated upright and shifted slightly to align with the other captures.
- Cropped to the small area shown.
- Converted to grayscale using a contrast stretch: the 0.5th–99.5th percentile brightness range within that small crop was mapped to black–white.
- Enlarged for the comparison sheet.
Using the small crop’s brightness range makes the faint infrared contrast much more prominent than it appears in a full-page rendering. That is why it can look substantially different from your version.

