Astronomical images taken for scientific data analysis may not be necessarily “beautiful” for ordinary people. To appeal the beauty of astronomical images to ordinary people, a special kind of image processing is required, putting more weights on their visual appearance. I assume that such a kind of image processing is very different from that for scientific purposes. In this paper, I will present what kinds of image processing technique should be applied to scientific images to make them more appealing for public relations. As an example, I will use the Andromeda galaxy image taken by the Hyper-Suprime-Cam (HSC) equipped on the SUBARU telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan.
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