{"id":483,"date":"2013-02-07T18:37:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T18:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=483"},"modified":"2013-02-07T18:39:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T18:39:53","slug":"team-of-amateur-and-professional-astronomers-creates-beautiful-galaxy-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"Team of amateur and professional astronomers creates beautiful galaxy portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A collaboration between an amateur and a professional astronomer creates a grand image of a spiral galaxy using a mosaic of Hubble images:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>February 5, 2013: Working with astronomical image processors at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., renowned astrophotographer Robert Gendler has taken science data from the Hubble Space Telescope archive and combined it with his own ground-based observations to assemble a photo illustration of the magnificent spiral galaxy M106.<\/p>\n<p>Gendler retrieved archival Hubble images of M106 to assemble a mosaic of the center of the galaxy. He then used his own and fellow astrophotographer Jay GaBany&#8217;s observations of M106 to combine with the Hubble data in areas where there was less coverage, and finally, to fill in the holes and gaps where no Hubble data existed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/newscenter\/archive\/releases\/2013\/06\/\" target=\"_d\">Amateur and Professional Astronomers Team Up to Create a Cosmological Masterpiece &#8211; HubbleSite &#8211; Feb.5.13<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/conn-doctor-creates-galaxies-spare-time-article-1.1257290\" target=\"_d\">Amateur astronomer patches together stunning mosaic of a spiral galaxy millions of light years away: <i>Connecticut physician Robert Gendler composes detailed image of M106 using Hubble Space Telescope images and ground-based photography.<\/i> &#8211; NY Daily News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/newscenter\/archive\/releases\/2013\/06\/image\/b\/format\/web_print\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"484\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?attachment_id=484\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/hs-2013-06-b-web1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"400,312\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"hs-2013-06-b-web[1]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/hs-2013-06-b-web1-300x234.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/hs-2013-06-b-web1.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-484\" alt=\"hs-2013-06-b-web[1]\" src=\"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/hs-2013-06-b-web1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/hs-2013-06-b-web1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/hs-2013-06-b-web1-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/hubblesite.org\/lib\/share_video.php?u=\/hu\/db\/videos\/hs-2013-06-a-flash_video_16x9.flv&amp;t=\/hu\/db\/2013\/06\/videos\/a\/flash_preview.jpg&amp;w=448&amp;h=252\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collaboration between an amateur and a professional astronomer creates a grand image of a spiral galaxy using a mosaic of Hubble images: February 5, 2013: Working with astronomical image processors at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., renowned astrophotographer Robert Gendler has taken science data from the Hubble Space Telescope archive and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=483\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Team of amateur and professional astronomers creates beautiful galaxy portrait<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-7N","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17491,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=17491","url_meta":{"origin":483,"position":0},"title":"Hubble: Huge new image mosaic of the Triangulum Galaxy","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 8, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The Hubble Space Telescope collaboration has released huge new mosaic image of the Trangulum Galaxy: Hubble takes gigantic image of the Triangulum Galaxy The NASA\/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the most detailed image yet of a close neighbour of the Milky Way \u2014 the Triangulum Galaxy, a spiral galaxy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/heic1901a1.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":14690,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14690","url_meta":{"origin":483,"position":1},"title":"Hubble: Two galaxies &#8211; 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