Notices by Judy Schmidt (spacegeck@astrodon.social)

These mosaics are rough, and going to take a lot of work. Trying to decide how much work. They're beautiful, though. Difficult alt text.

Data from JWST; PI Tom Megeath

Removing most of the noise with G'MIC, and working through how to best represent the data. Brighter? Darker? Bluer? Redder? 🤔

Finished this view of HOPS 383 tonight. More info in the rest of thread, alt text, and at Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2qWhPrW

Found something cool in the Sombrero Galaxy (M104) while trying to peek at the dusty features in its bright core. I think it's got big shadows / crepuscular ray features like the ones I found in IC 5063 (https://flic.kr/p/2mjGRVZ) but they're much fainter. I mean, they'd have to be hard to see given that it's such a well-studied galaxy.

the internet is like a pot left on a too hot fire for too long, boiling over, and the worst people pulled the knob off the range and won't let anyone turn the fire down

Me: Oh yeah I can talk all day about astronomy and processing and art and science etc etc

Them: Ok we need a short quote from you.

Me: Well, fuck this, I'm going home

I'm not Carl Sagan, leave me alone. 😂

For real though I'm trying to figure out how to tell everyone not to let some obscenely rich chodes take away the sky one bit at a time until it's all gone.

@AkaSci god

also

dat satellite tech

@AkaSci seriously can't get over the resolution of this IR data. you could see if someone's backyard BBQ was going

@thomasfuchs @andresmh @citp @PrincetonCS countless human years of refining techniques and observations passed from one generation to the next only for an algorithm to come and spew out a three legged elefootrunk with a floating lamp post and fake flowers and apparently even a fake nassau hall because the masonry and architecture is all f'ed up and it looks nothing like any photos

tonight's question: do x-ray astronomers care at all about what bands color imagery generated from their data use? does it matter?

fun fact: x-ray images come from event files and each photon gets its energy level recorded, so you can divide the bands however finely or coarsely you want! this does not make it easier to decide what color to make things...

Guess I can post these now.

#Titan #JWST #Keck #astronomy