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Here's a variant of that GIF that separates out the blue, blue+green, and blue+green+red channels, to (hopefully) highlight which differences are due to the longer wavelengths (and which look more like exposure time difference). Webb's color mapping roughly aligns with the RGB channels, so I think this is meaningful [0].

https://i.ibb.co/D8dW6v5/jwst.webp

[0] https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/038/01G...

("...the assigned colors are: Red: F444W Orange: F356W Green: F200W + F277W Blue: F090W + F150W")

Steps to reproduce:

    convert 9uyhwijeo0b91.gif[1] -resize 4537x4630 aligned-hst.png
    cp STScI-01G7JJADTH90FR98AKKJFKSS0B.png jwst-rgb.png
    convert jwst-rgb.png -channel R -fx "u*0" jwst-gb.png
    convert jwst-gb.png -channel G -fx "u*0" jwst-b.png
    convert -delay 150 -loop 0 jwst-{b,gb,rgb}.png aligned-hst.png my.gif
    ffmpeg -i my.gif -loop 0 my.webp



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