| Subject: Re: "There are over 200,000 galaxies filling this image" !!! |
| From: 4HEAD |
| Date: 30/03/2012, 12:01 |
| Newsgroups: alt.alien.research,alt.alien.visitors,alt.astronomy,alt.fan.art-bell,alt.paranet.ufo |
On 3/30/2012 5:26 AM, Painius wrote:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:24:47 -0500, 4HEAD<user@localhost.invalid>
wrote:
On 3/28/2012 6:19 AM, Sir Gilligan Horry wrote:
"There are over 200,000 galaxies filling this image !!!
It’s 17,000 x 11,000 pixels! If you happen to be sitting on a T1 line,
then you can grab this massive 250 Mb file."
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/03/23/an-ultradeep-image-thats-full-galaxies/
It's sooo humbling to see an image like that.
One thing I'm waiting for is when they start using the Light Field
technology
to take these images. When I zoom in, it's not long until the image starts
getting blurry because even though the image is what- 17,000 x 11,000?
That's 2 dimensions. What if they used Light Field tech to where we could
keep zooming in and everything is still in focus? I don't really know if I'm
understanding this LF technology accurately, but it's very very
interesting.
http://www.lytro.com/science_inside
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2387554,00.asp
(( {:->/
That Lytro is definitely a fascinating find. But look at what you're
asking...
The Lytro camera offers a way to choose a focus between a near object
and its background *after* you've shot the photograph. So we're
talking at most a two- or three-foot focus vs. a few hundred feet
(background), which yes, is a fairly great technological feat.
However, with images such as the UDF, those background galaxies are
quite a bit more than a few hundred feet from the foreground galaxies,
maybe a few hundred _light years_ or more. So 4HEAD ol' buddy? I
wouldn't get my hopes up.
Ok. I knew it was too good to be true. What if we connected millions of
computers together sort of SETI style, and used all that computing to
address
the problem? Could we process just a tiny area of the cosmos, UDF style?
What I'm wanting is like if we pointed a video camera at some area of
the sky and just kept slowly zooming in, and with everything in the frame
in focus, like we're in the front control room of a spacecraft moving at
uber warpspeed, and we're looking out the front 'window' watching
everything go by. SciFi I guess...
Forehead