Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-03-23
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. The quality of figure
Scientific paper
10.1086/518374
To detect changes in repeated astronomical images of the same field of view (FOV), a common practice is to stroboscopically switch between the images. Using this method, objects that are changing in location or intensity between images are easier to see because they are constantly changing. A novel display method, called arrival time color intensity projections (CIPs), is presented that combines any number of grayscale images into a single color image on a pixel by pixel basis. Any values that are unchanged over the grayscale images look the same in the color image. However, pixels that change over the grayscale image have a color saturation that increases with the amount of change and a hue that corresponds to the timing of the changes. Thus objects moving in the grayscale images change from red to green to blue as they move across the color image. Consequently, moving objects are easier to detect and assess on the color image than on the grayscale images. A sequence of images of a comet plunging into the sun taken by the SOHO satellite (NASA/ESA) and Hubble Space Telescope images of a trans-Neptunian object (TNO) are used to demonstrate the method.
Cover Keith S.
Lagerwaard Frank J.
Senan Suresh
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