Re: tricolor strip

["K Strauss" <kstrauss@legendcomm.com>]

If you want to see a higher resolution gif of the original PostScript file,
try http://www.postscript.com/tricolor.gif
The gif is about 1.2 MB and I've only a 64Kbps link to the net so downloads
are a bit slow.

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Albertson <chris@topdog.logicon.com>
To: tass@wwa.com <tass@wwa.com>
Date: Wednesday, April 08, 1998 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: tricolor strip


>Tom Droege wrote:
>>
>> Arne,
>>
>> I got it and it looks great (to me).  On a scale of "Gee Whiz" to
>> "Ugh" how would you rate this picture?  I will want to show it at
>> a talk that I am giving to a Northern Indiana astronomy club, and
>> want to have a better idea of what I am showing.  Most of the
>> pictures I see on the web sites are more "Gee Whiz" to me, but then
>> what do I know.
>>
>
>I am looking at it too. When reduced to a small size so as to fit on
>one sheet of paper or on the screen it is just "interesting"  But
>when you see it full size, one CCD pixel mapped to one screen pixel
>it is really impressive.  It makes the point that there are more stars
>than you could ever count, look at or measure.   You have to print
>it 8" tall to get the full impact, any smaller and you are throwing
>away detail.
>
>The image, especially to amateur CCD astophotographers should be
>impressive.  Not many of them are used to seeing such wide fields,
>or such large images 2400x768 is huge by amateur standards.  It
>also looks nice on the Tektronics printer.
>
>I have thought about creating a synthetic image from the TASS Database.
>Not a plot but a real image made by convolving a PSF with the points
>It would be in color and look like a photograph taken with and an ideal
>wide field camera.  The point would be to show this picture when you
>say that a TASS camera site can measure 100,000 stars in one night.
>Then you show the synthetic image with 100,000 stars.  I'd also
>have a bound set of papers holding the data that corresponds to the image.
>It would look like a small phone book.  Next you say "every site collects
>this every clear night".
>
>
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