stuff: Astronomy

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From: Ronald Wong (ronwong@inreach.com)
Date: Wed May 17 2000 - 13:36:31 PDT 

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Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 21:36:31 +0100
From: Ronald Wong <ronwong@inreach.com>
Subject: stuff: Astronomy

For those of you interested in images that will capture your students'
imagination, add a little color to your bulletin board, get students
interested in astronomy, etc., etc..., you might want to look into:

http://www.aao.gov.au/images/

This page is the gateway to a unique collection of wide-field
astronomical photographs, mostly made with the telescopes of the
Anglo-Australian Observatory by David Malin.

The following are some comments made at their website:

                  About the photographs

These are some of the finest wide-field astronomy pictures made with
professionaltelescopes anywhere and every effort has been made to capture
the true colours of distant stars, galaxies and nebulae using innovative
photographic techniques and CCD detectors. The images have detailed
captions and the full NGC 2000.0 catalogue entry. Galaxy images also carry
NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) data links.

                    Digital files

All images, new and old are available for download as TIF or JPG files in a
range of standard sizes up to 100Mb (23 x 28.5cm, 600dpi TIF or JPG). These
uniquely high res images are ideal for film and TV zoom sequences and for
high quality publications.

                    New images

The AAT's prime focus has recently been upgraded to accommodate a new
generation
of highly sensitive CCD detectors. The first colour images made with the
new facility are now available, currently only in digital form. Most of the
photographic images have recently been digitally re-mastered from the
original 3-colour separations. This has allowed us to create new, high
resolution versions of many existing images and some new pictures that
could not be made photographically.

enjoy - ron

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