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Hubble Top Ten
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 2:29 am
by ranjones1
Has anyone got that "Hubble Top 10" email with 10 astrophotos reportedly from the HST? There's one in there labelled "Starry Night". It's a nebula I've never seen before... and I can't find it anywhere else. Is it real?
--Randy Jones
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 3:55 am
by BMAONE23
Is this the one you are talking about?
http://qah.uni-muenster.de/forum_thread.php?id=333
this isn't an e-mail but a BBS
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:23 am
by ranjones1
That's it. Those are the pix that came in my email. But what is No. 8? The caption says: "No. 8 Starry Night, so named because it reminded astronomers of the Van Gogh painting. It is a halo of light around a star in the Milky Way."
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 6:16 am
by BMAONE23
I believe it is the picture that is of this
http://heritage.stsci.edu/2005/02/supplemental.html
V838 Monocerotis
If you expand the previous link to full screen the pictures should line up like this
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
9 10
see if that makes sense
here is another good series of images over time
http://heritage.stsci.edu/2005/02/images/s0502aw.jpg
Looking at the series though, it appears that the surrounding stars react to the wave by brightening up as it nears them. Or is it just that the light wave gets dimmer marking the necessity of taking longer exposures to enhance the view of the wave thereby increasing the ammount of light gathered from the stars too giving them an apparent brightness increase?
V838 Monocerotis
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 1:34 pm
by ranjones1
That's it. You found it. And I remember reading about the "light echoes". Thanx for tracking down that information.
Posted: Sat Jan 13, 2007 4:54 pm
by BMAONE23
Glad to be of assistance.
Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:34 am
by HellsBells
Pic number 1 on that list is my favorite by far. It just makes me feel so small and so full of wonder all at the same time.
