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  • 2022-06-02 (xsd:date)
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  • ‘Saturn as Captured from a Backyard Telescope’ – Truth or Fiction? (en)
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  • ‘Saturn as Captured from a Backyard Telescope’ Claim Facebook post depicts Saturn as captured from a backyard telescope. Rating Decontextualized Like this fact check? Reporting On May 28 2022, a Facebook user shared an image captioned, Saturn as seen from a backyard telescope to the large public group Physics and Astronomy. Commenters on the post seemed to believe the sharer captured the image personally, responding: What wonderful detail you were able to pick up. First time I saw Saturn in my telescope was breathtaking as well even though my image wasn’t as beautiful as yours Doesn’t take a very flash telescope to see Saturn with your own eye, and the first time you do, well words can’t describe it. Nice picture. What telescope , this is a fantastic image In response to the third comment, the sharer explained they hadn’t taken the photograph themselves: I haven’t clicked this photo sir..I found it on the internet and shared here.. Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die An initial reverse image search was unproductive. TinEye.com returned the following error message: Whoops, we are sorry. Your image is too simple to find matches. TinEye requires a basic level of visual detail to successfully identify matches. Please upload a more detailed image. Google Lens didn’t return many results, primarily links to Twitter timelines — not tweets. One match was a May 8 2022 post by the page Astro Universo, with a caption translated to English from Spanish: Saturn photographed from Earth through a telescope Two of the matches linked to separate May 1 2022 posts by Tumblr users . Neither post described the image in any fashion: https://brainrotdotexe.tumblr.com/post/683051195286323200 On May 14 2022, a Twitter account tweeted the image, attributing it to photographer Daniel Borja: La belleza del planeta #Saturno , captura por el fotógrafo Daniel Borja. ✨🌌😍 #Space 🚀 pic.twitter.com/dnCXxtXb3v — MúsicaY (@MusicaY) May 14, 2022 A search for Daniel Borja and Saturn led to a Reddit profile for u/DanBorja. On April 30 2022, that account shared the image to r/interestingasfuck (after which it landed on r/all). That post was titled Saturn through my 6′′ telescope, and the image matched the one in the popular Facebook post: Saturn through my 6 telescope from interestingasfuck In comments, u/danborja linked to his Instagram account. Alongside other space images, the Saturn one was featured and captured: Equipment: 🔭Celestron Nexstar 6SE 📷 ZWO ASI290MC TeleVue Barlow 2x Optolong UV/IR Cut filter In the Reddit thread, u/danborja reiterated the equipment used, adding a bit more context about the image’s processing: Processing: Stacked in Autostakkert Sharpened in Registax Added background stars from the Flaming Star Nebula, taken at 250mm Added glow in Photohsop [sic] In that subthread, u/CrankyPelicans asked what the image looked like before processing. In response, u/Kid__A__ clarified how images like the viral Saturn one were created: I do astrophotography as well- it takes 1,000’s of video frames stacked to make this. Each individual frame is much blurrier [because] of atmospheric turbulence, but when averaged together the details pop out. A single frame would look much less crisp but probably still pretty rad. He also added in a background field of stars, so that wouldn’t be there. Borja (@spacebydan) also tweeted the image on April 29 2022. In the tweet, he described it as a composite image: Saturn Taken with my 6 #telescope *Composite image* #astronomy #saturn #space pic.twitter.com/OqN7P5HGCO — Dan Borja (@spacebydan) April 29, 2022 A circulating Facebook post of Saturn as captured from a backyard telescope created the impression the image shown was a single-shot photograph. The image was originally shared to Reddit on April 30 2022 by u/danborja. In the comments, u/danborja explained that the image was stacked, sharpened, and enhanced using various programs; background stars from the Flaming Star Nebula were also edited in to the composition. Borja shared the image in a popular tweet, and noted that it was a composite image. Article Sources + Saturn as captured from a backyard Telescope 🔭. | Facebook . | Facebook Saturn | Tumblr Saturn | Tumblr La belleza del planeta #Saturno, captura por el fotógrafo Daniel Borja. ✨🌌😍 #Space 🚀 | Twitter Saturn through my 6 telescope | Reddit @danborjaa/Instagram @spacebydan/Twitter Posted in Fact Checks , Viral Content Tagged astronomy , saturn , saturn as captured by a backyard telescope , science memes , space memes , viral facebook posts , viral images , viral reddit posts (en)
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