Subject: New "pretty picture" images from SPIcam

From: John Barentine

Submitted: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:58:05 -0600 (MDT)

Message number: 569 (previous: 568, next: 570 up: Index)

Hi all,

At Ed Turner's request I'm sending out this link to some "pretty pictures"
taken with the 3.5m and SPIcam this past Saturday night as part of UW's
Astronomy Day open house:

	http://galileo.apo.nmsu.edu/~jcb/apo/spicam/

Chris imaged some bright Messier objects to show the crowd in Seattle what
it was like to observe remotely in "real time".  Seeing was a bit over an
arcsecond when these were taken but quite variable, so I selected the best
of the lot for combining. I calibrated the BVR images and made color
composites from them.  The colors are close, but not exactly right in my
opinion so I'll probably so some additional tweaking of these colors,
eventually.

If anyone in the 3.5m user community would like to use these images for
promotional, public outreach, etc. purposes, please feel free to download
them from my page.  I also have them saved as higher-resolution bitmap
files if anyone wants those; email me if you need them.

Regards,

John Barentine
Observing Specialist I
APO





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