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Old 13-06-2006, 11:58 PM
tornado33
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The incredibly deep UKST H-Alpha Survey

I didnt realise the 1.2 metre UK Schmidt scope at Siding Spring had done this. Its a fantastic piece of work, using the worlds biggest monolithic narrowband H Alpha filter and Tech Pan film (the finest film ever made for Ha imaging).
The telescope http://www.aao.gov.au/ukst/
the Ha survey http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/sss/halpha/index.html
one can download Gif or Fits images.

Go here http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/~sss/scan_...s/hal_map.html
if you click a black square you get a page with the option to dl a whole field.
this program allows you to view the fits images in Photoshop
http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/fits_liberator/
The images are incredibly deep, ive never seen anything like it. In nearly every firld theres some sort of nebulosity.

I downloaded the field that has the Norma nebulosity and NGC 6164-5 on it, then cropped part of it and played with the processing a bit, look how deep it is, incredible.
Scott
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