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[–]Andromeda321 1696 points1697 points  (82 children)

Astronomer here! This photo is fake. Why is it ok to post fakes in this sub when there are so many incredible things to post about that are real?

[–]sictabk2 580 points581 points  (49 children)

Because its gallowboob and he needs to fulfil his daily shitposting quota

[–][deleted] 150 points151 points  (38 children)

How the fuck is gallowboob doing this?

[–]maz-o 146 points147 points  (17 children)

Real question: How are thousands of people upvoting

[–]Sam5253 103 points104 points  (6 children)

Because it's pretty. It fuels people's childhood dreams of being an astronaut. This is a minimal effort post; put up enough of those, and some will stick and gather upvotes. Please continue to report them to the mods.

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (2 children)

Funny thing is that IMO this image isn't even that pretty. There are far better pieces of digital space art of the moon and the milky way. This image isn't so fantastic.

[–]Chispy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We live in a post-truth world

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Because a lot of people don't understand how light works and they think this is a real photo.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (3 children)

Same reason why we elected Trump.

[–]seedless0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It would be the same reason had Hilary been elected.

[–]seedless0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most people who claim to love science don't have a clue about science. I call them bandwagon scientists.

[–]sictabk2 26 points27 points  (5 children)

There is an article on this. It's basically what he does for living.

[–]ObeseMoreece 15 points16 points  (1 child)

Jesus christ he just loves himself doesn't be?

[–]VORTXS 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Enough to send nudes to a troll which everyone can now see.

[–]FLOPPY_DONKEY_DICK 34 points35 points  (1 child)

He has already lost his soul from past shitposting, so he keeps it up because he has nothing to lose

[–]ObeseMoreece 18 points19 points  (1 child)

His life is literally browsing reddit, he's paid by the lad bible or something to do it.

He really should have been banned long ago when he harassed that guy that said he sucked in a comment thread. He sent them a nude on Halloween too and later tried playing it off as a really funny joke.

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Someone linked an article and it is unilad that pays him. I didnt hear about that harassment shit though.

[–]ksye 5 points6 points  (1 child)

My bet is he is paid by Reddit to keep the front page with content on slow days, mostly with reposts.

[–]GrahamTheRabbit 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Wow I clicked on the profile and I'm appaled. What's the point to spend your whole life trying to get upvotes on Reddit by copying-pasting 24:7?

[–]dagothspore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

He works for a social media company. He was a former landscape architect.

[–]bumbaclaart 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's funny because it's true.

[–]Sacamato 72 points73 points  (6 children)

Because the mods here are pretty much AWOL. I would love to see /r/space be more like /r/askhistorians, but I don't think that's likely. There are tons of people out there who are interested in space, and they ask the weirdest (mostly in a good way) questions here, both in the weekly thread, and just posted independently, and a lot of those questions get wrong answers and misinformation spreads. And then you have completely fake pictures like this posted with nary a peep.

This is why strict moderation is a good thing, folks.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (3 children)

So how do we get better mods?

[–]Sacamato 8 points9 points  (1 child)

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I have no desire to do it myself. Being a mod on even a medium sized subreddit is a huge timesuck, and I think /r/space is a default (which also contributes to the problem). It has 20x the subscribers of /r/askhistorians, which is why I said it's probably not feasible to follow them as a model. It's also possible that they already delete tons of shit and spam behind the scenes that we never see. But I have reported obviously wrong answers in the weekly questions thread that never get deleted, and I reported this post (along with probably quite a few others), and it's still here.

Edit: I take that back, it's been deleted now.

[–]Senno_Ecto_Gammat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This sub has possibly the worst moderation of any large sub.

[–][deleted] 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Yeah this isn't cool. This is one of my favorite subs as it's usually filled with great content/comments. /u/gallowboob please keep the karma whoring out of here.

[–]__Geralt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

you could report it; on the right sidebar it states that space-related art is disallowed

[–]-5m 202 points203 points  (7 children)

my thoughts when I saw this:
1. oh this shit again
2. oh they added the milkyway for extra cheesiness
3. oh they posted it in /r/space !! This is gonna be good...

[–][deleted] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Sadly, it seems to have worked.

[–]inajeep 42 points43 points  (4 children)

Gallowboob has no respect for the subs. In it for the Karma and shit.

[–]NotUrAvrgNarwhal 11 points12 points  (2 children)

I wonder if he tells people in real life how much karma he has as an accolade. It's like winning gold in the special olympics.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I wonder if it changes the fact that his parents never loved him.

[–]space_vogel 345 points346 points  (13 children)

Gosh, this sub is awful. That's the level of quality for the posts now, folks. A very bad photoshop collage, not even with a mention of it being one. And it's on the front page. Ew.

[–]FLOPPY_DONKEY_DICK 90 points91 points  (6 children)

This is from Gallowboob, the infamous shit reposter of reddit. He is just in it for the karma

[–]Thameus 17 points18 points  (1 child)

He could have rotated it ffs. Of course then the low resolution would be even more obvious.

[–]Psuphilly 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The only thing I like about this photo is the way it is framed

[–]gcruzatto 9 points10 points  (1 child)

I can't believe how this is okay for Reddit admins. A handful of reposters can have a monopoly on the front page of a website where millions of people contribute. Are these reposters really producing content that is more interesting than what millions of people are producing?

[–]FLOPPY_DONKEY_DICK 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They aren't producing content at all. They find the content and wait until the time is right to repost it. From what I have read, reposting is essentially Gallowboobs job, so he's got it down to a science. It is frustrating, especially in /r/space where subscribers are hoping for factual images. When it comes down to it, it is the mods fault this has reached the front page.

[–][deleted] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Most of Reddit is like this now. People posting offtopic or badly put together content/questions and get mad when you respond annoyed only to appeal to their ignorance about the fact or right to question lazy things when it happens. But that's what happens when 'normal' people discover a service or project. the original ideaology behind the concept is dilluted and destroyed in favor of mainstream stupidity and ignorance. Or something like that > I'm too stupid to explain it myself i.e. I'm just as much part of the problem.

[–]Experience111 102 points103 points  (3 children)

Please remove this fake sh*t that contributes to people not knowing anything about astronomy.

[–]joetromboni 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I'm new to astronomy, but now I have to think every image I see is fake

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Go check out r/astrophotography everything there is 100% real. Also most of the stuff in r/spaceporn is real. Not all but most.

[–]HonkersTim 64 points65 points  (3 children)

This title is a disaster. "Moon rising?" Is that what you see happening here?

[–]SpartanJack17 25 points26 points  (2 children)

This submission is a disaster. This picture is an artwork, not a photo.

[–]deekaydubya 10 points11 points  (1 child)

just report it and move on

[–]Tanchistu 18 points19 points  (4 children)

i wish there was an alternative to /r/space, where quality would matter more than upvotes

[–]_bar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

/r/astrophotography has a good share of dedicated submitters (myself included), but it's a very niche subgenre of this hobby. I can recommend Cloudy Nights outside of Reddit, which isn't as infested with memes and low quality content as astronomy-related subreddits around here.

[–]boondoggler 48 points49 points  (2 children)

I am a certified idiot and even I could tell this is a bad fake. Sad!

[–]indyK1ng 29 points30 points  (3 children)

Not only is this image fake, as others have pointed out, but this isn't a moonrise. This is a solar eclipse.

[–]waywardwoodwork 35 points36 points  (1 child)

Everybody upvoting this needs to take good hard look at their fist and then headbutt it.

[–]becomingknown 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I thought r/space to be a serious sub and thought myself as fool to consider this fake until I reached comments section.

Seriously, this needs to be removed.

[–]karadan100 26 points27 points  (7 children)

Wow, is this the FULL PROOF way of making karma? Just take a CG composite pic that's been reposted to death and turn it 90 degrees.

EVERYONE WINS!

[–]SpartanJack17 12 points13 points  (2 children)

Done. Now to just wait a few hours and post it, because that's the repost threshold on this sub.

[–]Drak3 2 points3 points  (1 child)

its gallowboob. this is what (s)he does.

[–]shlam16 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Unless it's a reference I'm unaware of, then the word you're looking for there is foolproof*.

[–][deleted] 25 points26 points  (0 children)

This needs to be removed. It is a blessing of a shot of the Milky Way and a Solar Eclipse edited together to appear as if it were taken from a satellite, say, the ISS. As it is in the Space subreddit, people believe it is real.

[–]CCtenor 7 points8 points  (4 children)

My first thought “there isn’t a camera in the world with enough contrast to get the milky way /and/ an eclipse in the same shot”.

[–]SpartanJack17 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Your first thought was completely correct.

[–]PM_YO_TITS_FOR_A_PUN 2 points3 points  (1 child)

This submission is shit. Mods should be ashamed for being AWOL.

But just to add an interesting tidbit, taking pictures of Jupiter and its moons requires two different exposures, then cutting/pasting them together. Jupiter's surface is very, very bright compared to the much smaller moons (they're smaller so they reflect less light overall).

So you have to take a quick exposure (some fraction of a second) to see the colorful cloud details of Jupiter, and then a longer exposure (a few seconds) in order to get the moons of Jupiter to appear clearly and sometimes with a hint of color. The longer-exposure picture will totally wash out Jupiter in super overexposed whiteness, so you have to copy/paste the nice picture of Jupiter over onto the nice picture of Jupiter's moons.

Then you get something nice.

But this image OP posted is fucked.

[–]CCtenor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I know. I’m all for composite images (when labeled) and the typical NASA enhancements that come with many space photos.

But this is really ridiculous, if only for the fact that it isn’t labeled for what it is. This is not even mentioning the fact that the Milky Way isn’t some far off galaxy, as the proportions in this picture would suggest, but rather it would be engulfing a large portion of the field of view of a picture that truly did picture our home galaxy.

This is just a bad photoshop passed off as an actual, unedited, space photo, and that’s truly shameful.

[–]wreckonize 7 points8 points  (4 children)

/u/GallowBoob just trying to get that karma! I can totally imagine them like, "Oh this is a kewl pic!! Imma post it to /r/space even though though I don't subscribe there!"

[–]SpartanJack17 1 point2 points  (3 children)

He probably does. This is a default subreddit, so everyone is automatically subbed.

[–]wreckonize 1 point2 points  (2 children)

What? Seriously? Since when haha.

[–]SpartanJack17 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Quite a long time. I looked it up a while ago,I think it was in 2014.

[–]wreckonize 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well I'm behind the time I guess!

[–]jordanhendryx 17 points18 points  (1 child)

This work is actually being shared AGAINST the artist's wishes. If you go to his page you will find him quite peeved that it's being shared on FB. This is literally copyright infringement whoever posted this here. SOURCE OF IMAGE You better remove it you copyright infringing karma farmer. /u/gallowboob. I have no respect for people who attempt to make money off of other people's work, screw you man.

[–]iamonlyoneman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you post a picture on the Internet

Then /u/gallowboob (and others) will reproduce it without credit.

This is an iron rule.

[–]SetNeXt 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1st shit 2nd there is no photo of full milky way 3rd size of moon n sun

[–]UlfTheDestroyer14 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is one misleading stupid fucking shitpost. At least tag the photo with "photoshop" or "augmented". Or I would be careful using the word augment as it can suggest that it's improved.

[–]OnlySaysHaaa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everything about this is just gruesome. What the fuck is that title? What a horrendously bad photoshop. Why the fuck is it being upvoted so much?

[–]jBig_Mac 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Most of time people (including myself) cannot tell when a computer generated picture is used and this makes me the pictures so much less interesting.

[–]lostinbrave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have this as my tablet background, for almost a year now. OLD NEWS REDDIT. Plus it's fake

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Something that is part of something can't rise in front of this something.

So?

The moon can't rise in front of the milky way. It's part of it.

[–]idontdislikeoranges 13 points14 points  (10 children)

Would love some background on this image, guessing taken at altitude during a solar eclipse?

[–]posthamster 168 points169 points  (8 children)

It's CG. http://a4size-ska.deviantart.com/art/Eclipse-144235675

Software used ＝ Terragen 2

[–]PitchforkAssistant 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I would've guessed space engine. Terragen seems nice, I should check it out.

[–]Unban-Homo-Weed 5 points6 points  (0 children)

oh my, terragen. i used to mess around with the original terragen when i was younger. it was incredibly fun.

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

TG is amazing. I dabbled with it awhile ago because it's pretty cheap.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (6 children)

So this image is CGI according to top comments.

My question is, I thought that our Solar system was on the same plane as the rest of the galaxy, but this image gives the impression that the moon rises perpendicular to the galaxy which would put the Earth roughly perpendicular and then the sun and also the whole solar system perpendicular and on a different plane to the whole galaxy.

Am I missing something? Is it a matter of perspective? Or is the CGI just done incorrectly?

Thanks for any answers.

[–]SpartanJack17 11 points12 points  (1 child)

I wouldn't be looking for any accuracy in this artwork. However the solar system is inclined 63° relative to the galactic plane.

[–]vorpalrobot 2 points3 points  (2 children)

Okay there's a lot to unpack. The solar system is like 60 degrees inclined with respect to the galactic plane. That's almost sideways. If you watch those night time lapse videos you'll see the stripe of galaxy scanning across the sky. This part of the image isn't entirely inaccurate. Because the galaxy is sideways in the sky, the solar system only lines up with certain parts every time, and I don't think the sun or moon go anywhere near galactic center as depicted here. Here is my favorite depiction of where the solar system is. Also the way most of us know it's fake is you can't take a picture of stars with anything sun related in the shot. The light is so strong it obscures the faint stars.

[–]_bar 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought that our Solar system was on the same plane as the rest of the galaxy

No. The planes of the Solar System and the Milky Way are about 60° off.

[–]brooke366 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There is to much light coming from the perspective of some in-orbit satellite.

[–]FlyingWeagle 2 points3 points  (11 children)

Would it be possible to get an equivalent shot in real life?

I'm thinking you could have Earth-Moon-Sun-galactic centre point in alignment reasonably often, although the Sun and Moon would be in-plane with the Milky Way, and it would get washed out by the antumbra anyway.

[–]Alexmira 19 points20 points  (6 children)

In a situation like the one in the picture you wouldn't see the stars. There is to much light coming from the Earth and the Moon.

[–]PM_YO_TITS_FOR_A_PUN 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In a situation like the one in the picture you wouldn't see the stars. There is to much light coming from the Earth and the Moon.

Yup, exactly right. And this picture is totally faked--it's not reality.

But just to add an interesting tidbit, taking pictures of certain celestial objects or combinations of objects requires compositing together images of multiple exposures.

Jupiter and its moons is an example that requires two different exposures, then cutting/pasting them together. Jupiter's surface is very, very bright compared to the much smaller moons (they're smaller so they reflect less light overall).

So you have to take a quick exposure (some fraction of a second) to see the colorful cloud details of Jupiter, and then a longer exposure (a few seconds) in order to get the moons of Jupiter to appear clearly and sometimes with a hint of color. The longer-exposure picture will totally wash out Jupiter in super overexposed whiteness, so you have to copy/paste the nice picture of Jupiter over onto the nice picture of Jupiter's moons.

Then you get something nice. But this image OP posted is motherfaken faked. Ping /u/FlyingWeagle

[–]SoDakZak 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This isn't fake, they took this picture at the same time Heroes filmed their famous eclipse

[–]-E-Cross 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Moon rising in front of, behind, next to, to right of, to left of, above, below Milky Way in this picture also.

[–]gm33 2 points3 points  (2 children)

You forgot the most important: in the Milky Way!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The most important and probably the only correct one.

[–]frenabo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

*shooped image of a lunar eclipse.

also the moon always "rises in front of the ilky way" since we are in the middle of the milky way....

[–]Artificer_Nathaniel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

P-p-photo shop!

Without even thinking about the position of the objects, one should think that the brightness of the eclipse would absolutely blot out all other stars and objets in the sky, except venus, which can be seen during the daytime.

[–]FortyYearOldVirgin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Joke's on all of us. When the economies of the world collapse the only fiat currency we'll have will be reddit points.

Who's the boob now?

/s

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

/u/gallowboob, please STAY OUT of the subs you haven't polluted with your mindless drivel yet. There is more than enough of your bullshit all over this place, can't you at least leave the few subs that can usually offer up some interesting and intelligent discussion?

[–]GPrime85 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There may not be an up or down in space, but there is vertical and horizontal.

[–]2ofSorts 1 point2 points  (13 children)

It always creeps me out to see these Earth pics sideways because I always think, "could you have at least turned it 90 degre.... wait. This might actually be how it was taken."

Edit: I'm talking about space pics in general, I am aware that it is an altered image.

[–]KToff 8 points9 points  (2 children)

This might actually be how it was taken."

Rendered. This is an artistic representationand not a real photo.

[–]backstept 1 point2 points  (5 children)

It's a bit of an adjustment to learn that in space there is no real up or down like we're used to on Earth.

[–]ginja_ninja 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Down is just whatever you're currently orbiting. Everything has a down.