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Slooh is an incredible, one-of-a-kind program where
we are able to watch LIVE astronomy through two scopes located in
the Canary Islands. Below are *some* of the imagery that is
available to it's members. To see a page of my favorite Slooh images (my "vault"), CLICK HERE!!!! This is an on-going effort to show what Slooh is capable of. I *highly* recommend you visit! |
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HOT OFF THE PRESS! There's been enough demand on how to use FITS Liberator that I've put together some How To text and video tutorials. This started small but wound up big. As such, it is a work in progress as I try to find/fix my errors and verbal stumbles. But here it is. Critiques and Comments always welcome! |
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Listed below is some extra work I've done with Slooh images. Access to the scopes gives my the ability to do work far and above anything I would ever be able to do by myself.
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| Comet 73P has been breaking up since it's last 'fly-by'. This is an animation from different pictures from Slooh of fragment 'C' as it passed M-57, the Ring Nebula. The animation will play through the individual pictures, centered on M-57. You'll then see a composite of all of the comet layers. | |
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This is a black-and-white version |
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This is a color version. NOTE that because of the speed of the comet, you will see color separation issues. This is due to the travel of the comet during the red-green-blue-luminescent exposures. |
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GeoSats (or Geosynchronous Satellites) move too slow in the sky for us to recognize with the naked eye. However, when taking a timed exposure, they quickly become visible. In this case, Slooh takes a Red, then Green, then Blue exposure for color. (It also takes a luminescent image, but it looked better in this image.) Here, we see 7 satellites that are moving while the color exposures are aquired. I wish I could say I planned this, but it was just dumb luck. |
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On Slooh, there are *5* scopes. One dome houses two scopes. Dome
#1 is more in tune to see bright, planetary objects. Dome #2 is more
for viewing faint, deep sky objects. Both scopes have a smaller
"wide field" view, so you get a close and general view of the
object. Between the two domes is an "all sky" camera, with a 178deg field of view fish eye lens. This is a small movie I put together that shows the night of June 17, 2006. At the start, the sun is just setting. The Milky Way can be plainly seen moving across the sky, then the moon comes up (50% illumination), then the morning sun. Both domes are in operation. 120 frames to cover 8 hours. (1 frame per 5 minutes, 4 frames per second displayed here) |
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Many times, the images on Slooh are great without any enhancement. Here's an example of just a minor tweak on the Pinwheel Galaxy M33. Click on the picture for a demo. |
| This is a link to some image enhancement I did to a couple of Jupiter images. Click Here to see them! | |
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This is a link so you can see the Slooh scopes via Google Earth.
(Note - you need Google Earth
to make this work.) Click the image to launch it. Note - the image at the left is NOT what you will see on the current updates on Google Earth. I don't know why, but you will no longer see the scopes. Hmmmmmmmm. |
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Fellow Slooh'er, JoshuaH.050701, caught a series of images Paul
Cox working on the Slooh Scopes, as well as a real nice sunset. This
is a streaming WMV movie of the images. Click on the picture to
launch. File size, 1.3 megs. You've been warned. |
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Here's another event from the dome's web cam. During a late
night viewing, we realized that the dome cam was turned on right at
the beginning of the sunrise. I couldn't resist and made another
animation. Click on the picture to launch it. File size, just under 800k. |
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I thought this was cool. The Bradford Robotic Telescope has a number if different web cams. This one caught the constellation Orion directly over Mt. Teide. |
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| I've been trying out FITS Liberator
to assemble FITS files in PhotoShop.
Here's a page with some of my tries.
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