{"id":8156,"date":"2014-06-22T12:55:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T16:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8156"},"modified":"2014-06-22T12:55:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T16:55:13","slug":"crowd-sourcing-astrophotography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8156","title":{"rendered":"Crowd-sourcing astrophotography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Images from multiple amateur telescopic images of a given region of the sky can be combined using tools at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nova.astrometry.net\/\" target=\"_d\">Astrometry.net<\/a>\u00a0to create the equivalent of super long exposures. \u00a0The results can be<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000;\">Here&#8217;s an article and paper about this crowd-sources approach to astronomical imagery:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/view\/528536\/how-crowdsourced-astrophotographs-on-the-web-are-revolutionizing-astronomy\/\" target=\"_d\">How Crowdsourced Astrophotographs on the Web Are Revolutionizing Astronomy &#8211; MIT Technology Review<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; &#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>Astronomers have long known that combining the data from several astrophotographs can reveal dramatically more detail about astrophysical objects. So what will they discover by combining all the astrophotographs on the Web?<\/em>&#8221;\n<p><\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1406.1528\" target=\"_d\">Towards building a Crowd-Sourced Sky Map &#8211; arXiv.org<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the article:<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">The combined image for the M51 galaxies is just as impressive, taking only 40 minutes to produce on a single processor. It reveals extended structures around both galaxies, which astronomers know to be debris from their gravitational interaction as they collide.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #000000; padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"font-weight: inherit;\">Lang and co say these faint features are hugely important because they allow astronomers to measure the age, mass ratios, and orbital configurations of the galaxies involved. Interestingly, many of these faint features are not visible in any of the input images taken from the Web. They emerge only once images have been combined.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images from multiple amateur telescopic images of a given region of the sky can be combined using tools at\u00a0Astrometry.net\u00a0to create the equivalent of super long exposures. \u00a0The results can be Here&#8217;s an article and paper about this crowd-sources approach to astronomical imagery: How Crowdsourced Astrophotographs on the Web Are Revolutionizing Astronomy &#8211; MIT Technology Review\u00a0&#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crowd-sourcing astrophotography<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-27y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10086,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10086","url_meta":{"origin":8156,"position":0},"title":"Help crowd-fund research to answer &#8220;How old is the Milky way Galaxy?&#8221;","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 9, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Aaron Webster,\u00a0Ted von Hippel,\u00a0and\u00a0Elliot Robinson\u00a0at\u00a0Embry Riddle Aeronautical University have opened a crowd-funding campaign to raise $3500 to support their research\u00a0into the question of\u00a0How Old is the Milky Way Galaxy? -\u00a0Experiment\u00a0- We derive the ages and other properties of stars by combining theoretical astrophysics, data from the best telescopes, Bayesian statistical\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Activism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Activism","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.vimeocdn.com\/video\/504977328_640.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8154,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8154","url_meta":{"origin":8156,"position":1},"title":"Video: Beautiful 360 degree night sky time-lapse","author":"TopSpacer","date":"June 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Vincent Brady\u00a0has developed a marvelous technique for combining 360 degree views of the night sky and landscape with time-lapse sequences of long exposures to create gorgeous imagery\u00a0like those in the video\u00a0below. 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