Pictures of planets

On sites like Reddit I have noticed many postings like this

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/nymcc0/saturn_during_sunrise/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Aside from the fact the posters admit to the photo being heavily manipulated from the very start, admitting that it is a composite of 2600 exposures for instance, I’d like to know if there are other things they are doing to these pictures that they are not admitting to it if these are all just entirely fake to begin with. What are the tell tale signs that these photos are not what they claim to be?

One of their problems is that they can't fool all amateur astronomers. Do a search for images by amateur astronomers to see the lack of HD planetary images and that even includes the Moon. Can anyone find exceptions?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INcNtHIBpjY

this answered it for me

Nf35 wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INcNtHIBpjY

this answered it for me

It's not available on YouTube.

According to NASA the EPIC DSCVR probe which sits on the L1 Lagrange point, far enough to take a picture of the entire globe with no “stitching” required.

https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/

From the website: The L1 vantage point offers a continuous view of the entire sunlit half of the Earth in a “snapshot,” as opposed to other Earth observing satellites situated closer to Earth that capture an image strip that is later “stitched” together.

NASA only admits to manipulating the colors and saturation.

Link provided. It all looks fake to me.

tycho_brahe wrote:According to NASA the EPIC DSCVR probe which sits on the L1 Lagrange point, far enough to take a picture of the entire globe with no “stitching” required.

https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/

From the website: The L1 vantage point offers a continuous view of the entire sunlit half of the Earth in a “snapshot,”  as opposed to other Earth observing satellites situated closer to Earth that capture an image strip that is later “stitched” together.

NASA only admits to manipulating the colors and saturation.

Link provided. It all looks fake to me.

Where is the "satellites" and "space" junk and stars?