Project DSS: June 2008

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Saturday, June 28, 2008

NGC 7331 and Stephen's Quintet

Field: 45'x45'

NGC 2244 Rosset Nebula in Monoceros

Thursday, June 26, 2008

IC10 - Irregular Galaxy in Cassiopia

Field: 30'x30'

Almost every object in the above photograph is a galaxy. The Coma Cluster of Galaxies pictured above is one of the densest clusters known - it contains thousands of galaxies. Each of these galaxies houses billions of stars - just as our own Milky Way Galaxy does. Although nearby when compared to most other clusters, light from the Coma Cluster still takes hundreds of millions of years to reach us. In fact, the Coma Cluster is so big it takes light millions of years just to go from one side to the other! Most galaxies in Coma and other clusters are ellipticals, while most galaxies outside of clusters are spirals.-- APOD

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Abell 35 in Hydra

Field: 45'x45'

NGC 6781 in Aquila

Field : 15'x15'

NGC 6946 in Cepheus

Field: 30'x30'

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

PGC 2248 Cart Wheel Galaxy in Sculptor

Field: 15' x 15'

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Monday, June 23, 2008

NGC 891 in Andromeda

NGC 2359 Thor's Helmet in Canis Major

Sunday, June 22, 2008

M45 The Pleiades

Mosaic from 4 1x1 degree Panels.

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Saturday, June 21, 2008

M84 M86 Markarian's Chain

Fornax Dwarf

NGC 7023 Iris Nebula

IC 5146 Cocoon Nebula

M104 Sombrero Hat

NGC 5364 and companions

Friday, June 20, 2008

M101

M51 - Whirlpool Galaxy

IC1396 - Elephant Trunk Nebula

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Cone Nebula and Foxfur Nebula

HorseHead Nebula

M78

:: About Blog ::

Creating Color images from DSS was always my dream and this is the place where I post my processed dreams :)

All images posted here are created using DSS images. DSS images are of very good quality but in monochrome and only Red and Blue filtered.

In order to create Color images, we also need Green filtered image, which is created by combining Red and Blue images.

And all combined into final Color Image* in RGB.

*The colors may not be true colors of object as RGB data is not accurate and may not be properly calibrated.

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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.