Comments on: Swim in the Lagoon

By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:26:02 +0000

@ Nick Johnson:

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Nick Johnson

Nick Johnson — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:53:56 +0000

I realise I’m a day or so late, but I downloaded the image and used a tilecutter to turn it into a Deep Zoom image. You can explore it interactively at full resolution here: http://www.notdot.net/lagoon/

By: Lagoon Nebula « My Thoughts

Lagoon Nebula « My Thoughts — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:16:06 +0000

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By: kuhnigget

kuhnigget — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:18:58 +0000

The Lagoon was always one of my favorites as a kid. Magnificent site in a 6″ reflector built from scratch. Here in lovely Pasadena-in-the-Smog there’s too much light pollution to get the same effect.

I heart spacecraft.

By: I'd rather be fishin'

I'd rather be fishin' — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:57:12 +0000

“You can zoom in and see young stars, massive stars, dark clouds, ribbons and sheets of gas sculpted by vast winds of subatomic particles blown off of supergiant stars. ”

So there!

“There is science in this picture, to be sure. We can study it to look at the shape of the nebula, how it interacts with the stars and other nearby nebulae, and much more. But you know what? At this exact moment, I don’t care.”

And neither do I.

By: shane

shane — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 01:34:20 +0000

@I’d rather be fishin’
Ok. Here goes… I thought this was supposed to be an astronomy blog. Pretty pictures are not astronomy. Just because the said artwork contains astronomical objects does not make it astronomy. More equations, diagrams and the occasional earth-shattering boom are required to make this astronomy.

Awesome image.
Slightly OT, last night was an almost perfect night for the ol’ Galileoscope. Our moon and Jupiter were in very close proximity. Could almost see 5 moons in the same view and Jupiter is looking gorgeous at the moment.

By: I'd rather be fishin'

I'd rather be fishin' — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:11:14 +0000

If this and the rings of Saturn photos don’t keep the ‘this is an astronomy blog, so keep it on topic’ critics silent in wonder and awe, nothing will. What a beautiful image.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:04:15 +0000

5 more minutes to go… This must be the biggest image I ever downloaded.

Thanks, Phil!

By: Brock

Brock — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:19:10 +0000

Oops, it looks like GigaGalaxy Zoom offers wallpapers in various sizes, as long as you don't mind the logos they add.

By: Brock

Brock — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:38:19 +0000

I made a 1920×1200 Lagoon Nebula wallpaper for anyone who wants it!

How: I started with the 64.5 MB TIFF linked by John Phillips, and shrunk it in Photoshop CS4 to 1900 pixels wide with “bicubic sharper” resampling. The vertical dimension was 1286 pixels so I chopped the 86 from the top. Then I saved it as a JPEG at quality 8, which is probably good enough for desktop use (I wanted it under 1 MB).

I’m not using it for my wallpaper yet though because I’m still enjoying that Cassini composite of Saturn too much

By: John Paradox

John Paradox — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:27:23 +0000

8. phasespace Says:

Sorry Phil, but I’m not impressed. At HiRISE we routinely take images that have a few billion pixels in them. 67 megapixels? I laugh at your puny camera! We’ve got a gigapixel camera!

It’s not how many pixels your camera has, it’s how you use them…..

[sounds vaguely familiar...?]

J/P=?

By: John Phillips, FCD

John Phillips, FCD — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:03:33 +0000

My direct link for a 64.5MB tiff version is awaiting moderation so get it this way:

Click on Phil’s ‘The Lagoon Nebula’ link. Click Images in the menu at the top of the page and then click ‘this link’ under the small image on the right of the page. The image is m8.tiff.

By: John Phillips, FCD

John Phillips, FCD — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:00:01 +0000

There is also a 64.5MB tiff available.

http://www.gigagalaxyzoom.org/images/static/m8.tif

By: mike burkhart

mike burkhart — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:58:50 +0000

This is amazing. I think we are looking at the solar systems past our solar system formed form a nebula like this billons of years ago and we may find planets forming there as well as stars . p.s. My favort things to look at are the orion nebula and the pleiades .advice to Phill get a fliter thats blocks streetlights astronomy catalogs sell them I have one it makes observations in the city easey

By: phasespace

phasespace — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:46:33 +0000

Sorry Phil, but I’m not impressed. At HiRISE we routinely take images that have a few billion pixels in them. 67 megapixels? I laugh at your puny camera! We’ve got a gigapixel camera!

By: Paul Judd

Paul Judd — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:45:38 +0000

scibuff:
The monster link has been fixed by Phil. Still gonna wait till I get home though.

By: Webcrafter

Webcrafter — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:20:42 +0000

Just as well that the link is broken, I think it’s not a good idea to link directly to a 700MB image. Think of the poor servers, think of the poor administrator who gets the bandwidth bill! Too bad I couldn’t find a .jpg version of the image, the size of that would probably be 70MB at most even at highest quality settings…

By: scibuff

scibuff — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:11:19 +0000

The monster link is broken, i.e. Copy+Paste FAIL! (there’s a comma between www and eso, and it, of course, should be a dot)

By: Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum

Richard Drumm The Astronomy Bum — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:05:30 +0000

Shhh! This is the “Website of the Month” for October’s CAS meeting! Don’t tell nobody!
;^)

By: Paul Judd

Paul Judd — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:51:52 +0000

Woah! I have to wait to get home to get the image – over 600 megabytes is a rather large download for the office here.

By: Zhatt

Zhatt — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:43:19 +0000

There’s an error in your hi-res link; you have a comma after the ‘www’.

By: dhtroy

dhtroy — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:33:29 +0000

Just phenomenal.