Re: [APML] OT: IC 1396

[stephen pitt <lthuedk@pe.net>]

Wei-Hao,

This is an exceptional image.  The subtle and the obvious are all at 
once appreciated: the range of both values AND intensities is extremely 
broad-so much so that I would expect an almost immediate response from 
the dedicated CCD folks in the near future ;-)

Well done.

Stephen Pitt


Wei-Hao Wang wrote:
> ALOHA,
> 
> This is just for fun.  It's an OT because the images were not taken by films
> (but by photographic plates).  :) 
> 
> I'm involved in a project using a near-IR camera on our 2-m telescope
> to take some pretty pictures.  This near-IR camera has 4k*4k pixels
> and is
> currently the largest near-IR camera in the world.  It's also the prototype 
> IR camera that will be used by the Next Generation Space Telescope.  
> In its testing phase, people want to use it to take some nice pictures to 
> showcase its ability.
> 
> In order to simulate what will we see, I downloaded some public-available 
> images from the internet and make some false-color pictures.  IC 1396 is 
> the one I particularly like.  The near-IR portion of the image nicely shows 
> the stars embeded in the dark clouds.  The image is in:
> http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~wang/misc/ic1396.htm
> Move your mouse on and off to see the visible light and near-IR light 
> images.
> 
> In the real image of this project, we will perhaps use visible light images 
> from CFHT (a 4-m telescope on Mauna Kea).  The final image should have 
> a much greater depth and much higher resolution, comparing to the ones
> here made from small telescopes.  Indeed, from some of you guys, I
> already saw images far superior to the ones taken by Palomar.
> 
> We can still have some fun even if we don't have images of our own, right?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wei-Hao
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