Re: [APML] OT: IC 1396

[stephen pitt <lthuedk@pe.net>]

Oh yes, Wei-Hao, there is is a temperature change in the reds, as well. 
  Nice to see every now and then.

Stephen Pitt

stephen pitt wrote:

> 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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