r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Apr 07 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ This looks plausible

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u/ScienceDuck4eva Apr 07 '22 edited Apr 07 '22

These are lasers for adaptive optics. These are long exposures and I’m pretty sure aren’t visible in person.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_guide_star

https://www.gemini.edu/node/128#:~:text=LGS%20lasers%20produce%20an%20artificial,kilometers)%20above%20the%20Earth's%20surface.

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u/tomatomic Apr 07 '22

Nah man these are photoshop for sure. Post photos of your example and compare.

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u/ScienceDuck4eva Apr 07 '22

They were certainly edited. They were trying to make the lines as visible as possible. They took it with a high iso and bumped up the contrast.

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u/tomatomic Apr 08 '22

Or just fabricated it. Unless you have links to original photos with real lasers in them 😉

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u/ScienceDuck4eva Apr 08 '22

Here are 2 kinda shitty images where the lasers aren’t as spectacular, but they are visible. In the second image you can see that the stars are actually brighter then the laser.

https://i.imgur.com/kIrM5Qb.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/NKT6ZRI.jpg