Basic Color Imaging with Gimp Discipline: Education You need to use GIMP, which is available free, to open the three jpgs you saved from DS9 and combine them. The animation below shows takes you through the theory of how to colorize and combine the files. Tags: color imagingGIMP
Basic Color Imaging with DS9 and Gimp Discipline: EducationThis guide will take you through the steps you need to find and create your own color image using data from the LCOGT archive, DS9 and the Gimp. You can do this with sample data available from the public archive, or with data from your own observations if you have an account. After doing this activity you should be able to: * Use DS9 to scale an image and save it in jpg format * Use the GIMP to combine the jpg files into one color imageTags: color imagingds9GIMP
Make color images from astronomical observations There are many thousands of astronomical data files in our archive. We have created an easy-to-use archive search page that lets you limit your search by different attributes.
FTN image makes Astronomy Picture of the Day An image taken with LCOGT's Faulkes Telescope North was the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day for June 26th 2008. You can view the APOD site here: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ The image of the planetary nebula M27 was taken by top UK astrophotographer Nik Szymanek. The final image was a mosaic of 4 frames (each frame made up stacked images), using the narrow band filters H alpha, H beta and OIII.
National Eisteddfod in Wales, UK The Faulkes Telescope project team and astronomers from the School of Physics and Astronomy at Cardiff University ran a highly successful “Observatory” at the 2008 National Eisteddfod. This year’s event was visited by around 156,000 people, and the Science Pavilion attracted around 2,000 people a day over the 8 days of the event.
