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Article #9244Re: More HST Images Available
From: Soh Kam Yung
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 09:13
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 09:13
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Brad Templeton (brad@clarinet.com) wrote: : While the HST is of course dedicated to cutting edge research, it probably : would be worthwhile PR for it to take some lovely colour hi-res shots of : the classic astronomical photos for distribution to the public. There would : also probably be some useful research info in them, and I expect it wouldn't : need exposures nearly as long to do some nice shots of the Messier objects : and other standards to wow the public. One BIG shot of PR (plus a lot of basic science) would be the observation of the comet fragments that's going to collide with Jupiter later this year (July, was it)? Imagine: being able to see the effects of the collision in real time...too bad the actual collisions will happen on the dark side. Hubble (and other ground-based observatories) can only see the effects of the collision. -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ + Soh Kam Yung | sauron@ee.nus.sg | engp3010@leonis.nus.sg + +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10126a,a339fbfb652f84f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid10126a,public X-Google-Thread: f74ae,a339fbfb652f84f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf74ae,public X-Google-Thread: f5cc0,a339fbfb652f84f6 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5cc0,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-01-27 14:54:01 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmd.de!xlink.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!news.kei.com!eff!news.umbc.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!raffles.technet.sg!nuscc.nus.sg!cesun1.ee.nus.sg!sauron From: sauron@cesun1.ee.nus.sg (Soh Kam Yung) Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.astro,bit.listserv.seds-l Subject: Re: More HST Images Available Followup-To: sci.space,sci.astro,sci.image.processing,alt.internet.services,bit.listserv.seds-l Date: 27 Jan 1994 09:13:35 GMT Organization: National University of Singapore Lines: 19 Message-ID: <2i80jv$h6@nuscc.nus.sg> References: <CK7rns.MAH@cantua.canterbury.ac.nz> <1994Jan26.085609.1132@clarinet.com> <mcdonald.1101.2D467438@aries.scs.uiuc.edu> <1994Jan26.224102.18692@clarinet.com> Reply-To: sauron@ee.nus.sg NNTP-Posting-Host: cesun1.ee.nus.sg X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0]