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One of the big surprises of looking at your images on a computer is that the view you get will vary considerably, depending upon a number of factors. You might think that all displays are much the same, and for purposes like word processing or email that’s pretty much the case, but in the more demanding arena of image processing the differences become more important. What you would ideally need is a display system which could accurately display at least as many gray levels or color shades as your image contains. A 16 bit monochrome image could contain 65,536 shades of gray, and a 48 bit color image could contain billions of individual hues.
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(2007). Displaying Images. In: Creating and Enhancing Digital Astro Images. Patrick Moore’s Practical Astronomy Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-703-9_6
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