Project DSS: July 2008

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Eta Carinae and Key Hole Nebula

Field: 135'x135'

Friday, July 25, 2008

Eskimo Nebula - NGC 2392 - in Gemini

Field: 10'x10'

Monday, July 21, 2008

Sunday, July 20, 2008

The Coat Hanger in Vulpecula

Field: 90'x90' : South is Top and West is Left

Also known as Brocchi's cluster cataloged as CR 399

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Lagoon and Trifid and M21

Field: 108'x108'

See more detailed Lagoon By Anurag...

Monday, July 14, 2008

M81 82 in Ursa Major

Field: 75'x75'

Crop of M82 from Original Image

Sunday, July 13, 2008

NGC4565 Needle Galaxy in Coma Berenices

Field: 45'x45'

IC 1805 - Heart Nebula in Cassiopia

Field: 1.8 x 1.8 degree

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Celestial Pair - Double Cluster NGC 884 - 869

Field: 75'x75'

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Monday, July 7, 2008

The Beautiful Spiral M83 in Hydra

Field: 30'x30'

Sunday, July 6, 2008

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Sharpless 54 Complex in Serpens

Field: 75'x75'

NGC 5189 Planetary Nebula in Musca

Field: 15'x15'

Gum 15 - Emission nebula in Vela

Field: 60'x60'

Friday, July 4, 2008

NGC 7000 - North America Nebula

Field: 3.05 x 1.8 degrees

The original JPEG is 12991x9261 px that is 120.31 MP and is 92.4 MBs.
Followings are 1200x1200px crops @ Full resolution.
1. Part of North America Nebula:

2. Part of Pelican Nebula:

NGC 7635 - Bubble Nebula in Cassiopia

Field: 45'x45'

NGC 4038-39 Ringtail Galaxy

Field: 30'x30'

:: 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.

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