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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by contravariant on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:18PM (#17569441)
The cosmic microwave background is invisible on a 0-based image.
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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by mikeash on Thursday July 19, 2018 @03:29PM (#17569523)
Only if you’re trying to show the CMB and galaxies in the same image. Since doing so would be misleading as to the brightness of the CMB, that seems like a feature, not a bug.
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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by contravariant on Thursday July 19, 2018 @06:38PM (#17570955)
No, if you insist on a uniform colormap that includes 0K (or whatever measurement you're showing the CMB with) then there's absolutely no way to make the CMB visible. The average temperature is 2.72548 K with variations on the order of 0.00057 K. Its incredible uniformity is one of its more important features.
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Re:Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine by mikeash on Thursday July 19, 2018 @07:02PM (#17571110)
Oh, you meant variations in the CMB. I thought you just meant making the CMB visible.
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