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by alexhp
Sun Feb 23, 2014 4:17 am
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Video Submissions
Replies: 719
Views: 2571983

Re: Video Submissions

http://vimeo.com/87092212 Over 100,000 asteroids and their colors, as seen by a single remarkable survey telescope. This animation shows the orbital motions of over 100,000 of the asteroids observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), with colors illustrating the compositional diversity measure...
by alexhp
Sat Aug 24, 2013 12:13 am
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Submissions: 2013 August
Replies: 287
Views: 168061

Re: Submissions: 2013 August

In honor of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope's 10th birthday (this Sunday, August 25th ), I created a mosaic of van Gogh's "Road with Cypress and Star" using a selection of Spitzer images. http://www.astro.uvic.ca/~alexhp/new/figures/SpitzerVanGoghTiny.jpg Happy birthday, Spitzer! More infor...
by alexhp
Sun Sep 02, 2012 8:44 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Recent Submissions: 2012 September
Replies: 230
Views: 160886

Re: Recent Submissions: 2012 September

Hubble Space Telescope's Starry Night A re-imagining of Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" using the "Top 100" Hubble Space Telescope images (collected from http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/archive/top100/ ). http://www.astro.uvic.ca/~alexhp/new/figures/starrynight_HST.thumb.jpg ...
by alexhp
Sun Aug 12, 2012 10:26 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Video Submissions
Replies: 719
Views: 2571983

Re: Video Submissions

Worlds: The Kepler Planet Candidates http://vimeo.com/47408739 This animation shows the 2299 high-quality, non-circumbinary transiting planet candidates found by NASA's Kepler mission so far. These candidates were detected around 1770 unique stars, but are animated in orbit around a single star. Th...
by alexhp
Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:15 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Video Submissions
Replies: 719
Views: 2571983

Re: Video Submissions

New Horizons Mission: Kuiper Belt Fly-Through http://vimeo.com/45883622 http://vimeo.com/alexhp/newhorizons Fly with the New Horizons spacecraft as it cruises by dozens of newly-discovered Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) near its trajectory. These objects were found by our survey team (gray points) as w...
by alexhp
Fri Aug 03, 2012 8:12 pm
Forum: The Observation Deck: Latest Sky Photography
Topic: Video Submissions
Replies: 719
Views: 2571983

Re: Video Submissions

Kepler 11: A Six-Planet Sonata http://vimeo.com/44945226 http://vimeo.com/alexhp/kepler-11 Sonification of the transits of the remarkable Kepler 11 planetary system. Kepler 11 has a compact system of six planets, detected by the Kepler observatory through their transits of their host star: http://e...