Chandra Image Processing Tutorials |
Chandra Image Processing Tutorials |
Jul 19 2010, 09:09 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1592 Joined: 14-October 05 From: Vermont Member No.: 530 |
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/openFITS/
QUOTE With a basic understanding of astronomy data and image processing software, you can create your own astronomy images from FITS files. "FITS," which stands for Flexible Image Transport System, is a digital file format used mainly by astronomers. In this section you can download FITS files for some of our favorite Chandra images and learn how to compose your own versions of these high-energy astronomy images.
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Jul 19 2010, 09:47 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
Wow. This was incredibly timely. Thanks for the link!
-------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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Jul 20 2010, 04:55 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
i just use "nip2" and have imagemagick api interface open the fitt as a 32bit float
combine the 3 bands and export -- or -- open them in Cinepaint i can NOT wait until Gimp supports 16bit/layer images the next major release should |
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Jul 20 2010, 05:09 AM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
Is GIMP really going to start supporting 16 bit images? There's been a lot of talk about that but it just doesn't seem to be happening...
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Jul 20 2010, 05:36 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 890 Joined: 18-November 08 Member No.: 4489 |
supposedly the gimp 3.0 will BUT gimp2.6 was also supposedly the last 2 version .the current is 2.6.10
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Jul 30 2010, 02:41 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2785 Joined: 10-November 06 From: Pasadena, CA Member No.: 1345 |
I played a bit with combining Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer images together. I used the raw data available on the websites to rework the images so that the filters in the respective bands are ordered (R-->B : long wavelength --> short wavelength). This is a different palette than was used for many of the released images.
As described in the tutorial, I used a Hue/Saturation layer to colorize the grayscale images and then used "Screen" blending mode rather than loading into the RGB channels. That gave an interesting effect that might be useful for adding bonus channels in planetary images.... Links to images on my flickr site: Cassiopeia A supernova remnant (Spitzer/Hubble/Chandra): http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/4842001649/ E0102 supernova remnant in the Small Magellenic Cloud (Spitzer/Hubble/ + Halpha (orange) + [OIII] (blue-green)): http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/4839139715/ -------------------- Some higher resolution images available at my photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31678681@N07/
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