[APML] OT: Infrared M13

[Wei-Hao Wang <astrophoto@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Sorry for this OT.  It's not a film image.  I know there is a CCD list
but this is not
a CCD image.  I know there is a DSLR list but this is not a DSLR image either. 

This is M13 taken by a CMOS-like, 16 mega pixel mosaic camera.  This camera
is still the largest near-IR camera in the world.  I took images using
1.6 um and
1.2 um broadband filters but I only managed to process the 1.6 um data.  So 
I only have a B/W image.  Telescope is our 2.2m telescope.  Exposure time is 26
minutes at the center of the image and 8.7 minutes at the corners.  Seeing was 
about 0.7 arcsec.  No deconvolution.  Here are the 1.6 um B/W images:

small version
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~wang/misc/M13_ULB_H-small.jpg
larger version (1.1MB)
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~wang/misc/M13_ULB_H.jpg

Well, some people may feel B/W images are a little boring.  To colorize the 
image, I downloaded 2MASS 1.2, 1.6, and 2.1 um images and made an LRGB 
color image.  L is my own 1.6um image, RGB are 2MASS 1.2, 2.1, and 1.6 um 
data respectively.  This is not an easy task because stars are almost colorless 
in near-IR.  I have to swap the order of 1.6 and 2.1 um images to make
the stars
have a little color.  Otherwise all stars will look stupidly green. 
In addition,
2MASS's resolution and depth are both much lower than my image.  This is why 
there are color halos around bright stars and the faintest stars
remain colorless.
Anyway, here are the color images:

small version
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~wang/misc/M13_ULB_2MASS-small.jpg
larger version (1.3MB)
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~wang/misc/M13_ULB_2MASS.jpg

Enjoy.

Wei-Hao


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