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i can't believe people are suggesting to edit this away with photoshop... you are pointing at the moon and they are looking at the finger...

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It was caused by stacking incorrectly in photoshop to begin with.

That the image tweeted is a product of photoshop in the first place should be obvious to anybody who looks up. Go outside tonight and look up. Does the sky appear as it does in that tweet? Obviously not.

It's the result of some image processing. For example, there are like a hundred segments in the photo, but if you look carefully, they are quite aligned in ~27 almost parallel lines (probably the 27 satellites in different frames?)and a strange almost parallel segment (probably another unrelated satellite?).

And how about that black hole photo from last year? Definitely a hoax--black holes are supposed to be black, dummies!

The image being the product of a computer program processing data does not mean that it's a hoax. That's moronic, and it's not even remotely what I'm talking about.

Fixing the image is not a matter of "editing it out in photoshop". It's a matter of processing the data correctly in the first place, e.g. not editing it in. The author of the tweet stacked his images to show every satellite instead of removing every satellite, which is ass-backwards.

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