Re: More HST Images Available

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From: DrDarkMatter
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 00:46

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In article <1994Jan26.224102.18692@clarinet.com>, brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton) writes:
|> If it's false colour, that's true, although JPEGs are also smaller of course,
|> though they will distort the false colour a bit.
|> 
|> 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.
|> -- 
|> Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- San Jose, CA 408/296-0366

>> well for many objects the field size is not sufficient so a mosaic
would be necessary and that can be time consuming to do correctly

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Subject: Re: More HST Images Available
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