Beauty and astrophysics

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Aug 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000pasa...17..179b&link_type=abstract

Publications Astronomical Society of Australia, vol. 17, no. 2, p. 179-184

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Astronomy Education, Image Processing, Surveys

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Spectacular colour images have been made by combining CCD images in three different passbands using Adobe Photoshop. These beautiful images highlight a variety of astrophysical phenomena and should be a valuable resource for science education and public awareness of science. The wide field images were obtained at the Siding Spring Observatory (SSO) by mounting a Hasselblad or Nikkor telephoto lens in front of a 2K by 2K CCD. Options of more than 30 degrees or 6 degrees square coverage are produced in a single exposure in this way. Narrow band or broad band filters were placed between lens and CCD enabling deep, linear images in a variety of passbands to be obtained. We have mapped the LMC and SMC and are mapping the Galactic Plane for comparison with the Molonglo Radio Survey. Higher resolution images have also been made with the 40 inch telescope of galaxies and star forming regions in the Milky Way.

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