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Originally Posted by Shiraz
suggested this a few years ago, but no real interest at that time. http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=95522.
However, count me in if we are looking at a bit of the sky with no cirrus and very few stars - just lots of far off galaxies. If we are to make any sense of the little blobs, seeing-limited resolution will be essential (ie maybe 1arcsec or better sampling would be appropriate). |
Ray, my motivation for suggesting a cirrus survey is to aid in field selection for exactly what you are talking about.
For a collaborative deep field, the more levels of object the better.
You wouldn't be able to tick every box, but some might include:
Nearby, ultra faint dwarf galaxies, and maybe their tidal tails (such as the "little things survey" at Lowell)
Cepheids/nova in local group galaxies.
Tidal streams in interacting galaxy groups.
Supernova searches for fields at cosmologically significant values of Z.
Identification of Kuiper belt objects... or even those at Lagrange points for the outer gas giants.
There would be obvious benefit to tie in professional data sets... like H1 mapping from NRAO, or near infrared from SOFIA, etc)
And there would be some benefit in having a time stamped archive (uploaded to the cloud) for any given field of interest.
The biggest headache would probably be coordination and data reduction.
Anyway... just a few ideas to throw in to the camp fire.