ANU-DSS The Beauty of Cosmos in Sky Surveys: Maffei1 hiding behind heavy galactic dust

Used IR+R for red spectrum to reveal hidden extent of galaxy due to intervening galactic dust

Processing for Colors of Cosmos

The DSS images are 1/1.7/2 arc-sec per pixel which is v.good resolution.But unfortunately they are available in Red,Blue & IR filtered data;essentially appearing monochrome.The Green filter image is not there at all.Thus the images posted here are created by synthesizing Green channel digitally,then merging with R&B plate images.
This technique holds good unless an object[e.g.planetary nebula] emits predominantly in green light leading to deviation from true appearance/features visible in composed image.
Sometimes for heavily reddened objects/unavoidable situations,[e.g.Sirius,IC 10]I've used IR data to fortify the real nature of object leading to kind of IR-Visual images.The range of multiwavelength data is not much.Will be using more surveys soon for that.

ABOUT DSS DATA

The Digitized Sky Surveys were produced at the Space Telescope Science Institute under U.S. Government grant NAG W-2166. The images of these surveys are based on photographic data obtained using the Oschin Schmidt Telescope on Palomar Mountain and the UK Schmidt Telescope. The plates were processed into the present compressed digital form with the permission of these institutions.

The National Geographic Society - Palomar Observatory Sky Atlas (POSS-I) was made by the California Institute of Technology with grants from the National Geographic Society.

The Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II) was made by the California Institute of Technology with funds from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Sloan Foundation, the Samuel Oschin Foundation, and the Eastman Kodak Corporation.

The Oschin Schmidt Telescope is operated by the California Institute of Technology and Palomar Observatory.

The UK Schmidt Telescope was operated by the Royal Observatory Edinburgh, with funding from the UK Science and Engineering Research Council (later the UK Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council), until 1988 June, and thereafter by the Anglo-Australian Observatory. The blue plates of the southern Sky Atlas and its Equatorial Extension (together known as the SERC-J), as well as the Equatorial Red (ER), and the Second Epoch [red] Survey (SES) were all taken with the UK Schmidt.

All data are subject to the copyright given in the copyright summary. Copyright information specific to individual plates is provided in the downloaded FITS headers.

Supplemental funding for sky-survey work at the ST ScI is provided by the European Southern Observatory.

Monday, June 23, 2008

Maffei1 hiding behind heavy galactic dust

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