Hubble Space Telescope Public Lecture Series at the Space Telescope Science Institute Speaker: Zolt Levay, Space Telescope Science Institute Topic: Art and...
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Carter Emmart
carter@...
Aug 16, 2007 3:01 pm
Hi Mark, I'm not sure when I am scheduled to talk on the 4th, but I am will be arriving from Reno, so I hope I am scheduled late. If not, perhaps I could be...
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Frank Summers
fjsummers
Aug 16, 2007 6:39 pm
Folks, I often think this email group is underused. Perhaps we are just too busy. Today, I saw the Mira animation, and after digging, found that it was done by...
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Kimberly Kowal Arcand
kimberlykowal
Aug 16, 2007 6:54 pm
I just saw that animation today and thought it was really beautiful! Unrelated, I signed up for the Viz day at Adler next month - who else on the list is going...
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Zolt Levay
zoltlevay
Aug 16, 2007 7:14 pm
I'm registered for the Viz Workshop too. Zolt...
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Robert Hurt
rhurt_spitzer
Aug 17, 2007 7:45 am
Frank, Thanks for the nod on the animation. It was the most fun artist's concept type work I've gotten to do in a while! This particular science result really...
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Robert Hurt
rhurt_spitzer
Aug 17, 2007 7:51 am
On the conversational side of things, have people been watching "The Universe" on the History Channel? I think it could stimulate some significant discussions...
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Kimberly Kowal Arcand
kimberlykowal
Aug 17, 2007 7:29 pm
... I've seen two so far - SNR & alien galaxies ... Goodness yes, I completely agree. I think the pacing was worse in the SNR segment, galaxies didn't feel...
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Ernie Wright
etwrightiii
Aug 20, 2007 7:18 am
Re http://www.galex.caltech.edu/MEDIA/2007-04/video.html ... Y'know, I thought it was cool even before I read that it was done with software I'd helped write....
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Tom Bridgman
w_bridgman
Aug 21, 2007 1:49 am
Hello, I just recently found out about this group and joined. I'd been looking to improve the background star fields in the SVS visualizations and finally had...
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Ernie Wright
etwrightiii
Aug 21, 2007 5:48 pm
... Pretty! Your strategy for making the Milky Way visible works really well and produces a very appealing look; I may have to borrow it. :) I've done this...
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Frank Summers
fjsummers
Aug 21, 2007 8:20 pm
Cool. I only had a chance for a quick look, but I'll be back again. I created a similar B,V to RGB process a while back, so I'd love to learn what you did. I...
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Ka Chun Yu
kachunyu
Aug 21, 2007 9:52 pm
Hi all, ... This is beautiful work. One thing that I did for our real-time stars was to actually use the MK classification in the HIPPARCOS catalog. I don't...
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Robert Hurt
rhurt_spitzer
Aug 21, 2007 11:09 pm
Tom, That's pretty fantastic, and in fact is exactly an image resource I've been trying to find for some time myself! We've had up a gallery of full-sky...
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w_bridgman
Aug 21, 2007 11:28 pm
I plan to use these for our solar and geospace vis work but figured making them generally available could generate some good feedback for future improvements....
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Ernie Wright
etwrightiii
Aug 22, 2007 4:45 pm
... Duplication is a good bet. The bright stars look blown out, with solid cores, as if the Gaussian peak was much higher than 1.0 and got clipped. (Compare...
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Robert Hurt
rhurt_spitzer
Aug 22, 2007 8:51 pm
In case anyone's missed the flurry of press activity today, it's time to upgrade your Google Earth client: http://earth.google.com/ If you've played much with...
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w_bridgman
Aug 31, 2007 3:35 am
I found the duplications and regenerated the page. It fixed some other oddities around the image as well. Betelgeuse looks much nicer now. ;^) ...
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Robert Hurt
rhurt_spitzer
Aug 31, 2007 5:55 am
Tom, Again I have to say this is fantastic. We will make (credited) use of this in our in-house short feature "The Infrared Sky" as the missing piece to let us...
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Stuart Levy
slevy@...
Aug 31, 2007 2:43 pm
... Say, have you tried other star profiles (PSFs) besides Gaussians? We've been using exponentials, as in exp(-abs(r)/r0) rather than exp(-r^2/r0^2), as I...
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Ernie Wright
etwrightiii
Sep 1, 2007 6:00 pm
... It's beautiful. Betelgeuse is orange, Rigel and the Pleiades are blue. The only thing I might tweak is the PSF of the brightest stars--I kinda liked the...
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Ernie Wright
etwrightiii
Sep 1, 2007 6:21 pm
... Another way to get solid cores is to allow the filter peak to scale above 1.0 and then clip it. I think this is closer to the way detectors saturate. I've...
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Frank Summers
fjsummers
Sep 4, 2007 11:15 am
Hubble Space Telescope Public Lecture Series at the Space Telescope Science Institute Speaker: Gail Schaefer, Space Telescope Science Institute Topic: Using...
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Frank Summers
fjsummers
Sep 4, 2007 11:31 am
... I use a combination of Gaussian and exponential profiles. The Gaussian, clipped at 1.0, gives the core look, but the exponential provides the wings. I...
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w_bridgman
Sep 4, 2007 5:54 pm
... now. ;^) ... My code for this is object-oriented, so designing a plug-in style architecture for components like star profiles isn't that difficult. ...
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Ernie Wright
etwrightiii
Sep 5, 2007 9:21 pm
... I tracked this paper down today (fortunately, ADS has it), and it was well worth the short, accessible read. ...
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Ryan Wyatt
ryan_j_wyatt
Sep 7, 2007 1:27 pm
We have posted a new position at the new California Academy of Sciences that might be of interest to people on this list (or perhaps friends or acquaintances...
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Frank Summers
fjsummers
Oct 2, 2007 12:30 pm
Hubble Space Telescope Public Lecture Series at the Space Telescope Science Institute Speaker: Maggie Turnbull, Space Telescope Science Institute Topic:...
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Mark Subbarao
mark_subbarao
Oct 23, 2007 11:44 am
... From: Robert Nichol <Bob.Nichol@...> Date: Oct 23, 2007 3:52 AM Subject: UoP visualization researcher To: sdss-general@... Dear All,...
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Pedro Russo
zeronezero
Oct 28, 2007 4:31 pm
Sorry for the ad! :) Cheers, Pedro IAU0701: New journal for astronomy communicators goes live! 26 October 2007, Munich: In response to an increasing need among...
