Some Pretty Objects as observed by SDSS

Copyright Doug Finkbeiner and the SDSS Consortium

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     Doug Finkbeiner and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Consortium

The algorithm used to generate these images is very simple, and is described in this paper in PASP.

The official SDSS acknowledgements are given at the end of this page.

All images are made from g-r-i.
cygnus6 m100 m101
m13 m15 m51
m78 m82 perseus_cluster
perseus seg110a seg1a
seg30b2 taurus5 virgobig

Acknowledgements

Funding for the creation and distribution of the SDSS Archive has been provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Participating Institutions, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Japanese Monbukagakusho, and the Max Planck Society. The SDSS Web site is http://www.sdss.org/.

The SDSS is managed by the Astrophysical Research Consortium (ARC) for the Participating Institutions. The Participating Institutions are The University of Chicago,Fermilab, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Japan Participation Group, The Johns Hopkins University, Los Alamos National Laboratory,the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics (MPA), New Mexico State University, Princeton University, the United States Naval Observatory, and the University of Washington.