Monday, October 1, 2007

Beyond Skyviewcafe


Here's a NASA site, kind of like skyviewcafe, that allows you to create images of just about every corner of the sky. However, you can go beyond the visible part of the spectrum and see systems in anywhere from gamma rays on down to radio waves. The interface is a little difficult as you need to either know the name of the system or the exact coordinates. Also there is an overwhelming number of options but with a little fooling around you can make an image, however knowing what you're seeing is much more difficult. Here's one I made just by fooling around. If I did it right it's a gamma ray image of the sirius system.

the website is at http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/

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