Cross eyed viewing method needed to see the 3d effect below.
Red blue glasses needed to see 3d effect below
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
3d image from observatory event showing Sandra's large 14.5 inch telescope
Photo taken during the taping of the Faac cable show and astronomy event last fall.
Cross eyed viewing method needed to see the 3d effect below.
Red blue glasses needed to see 3d effect below
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Cross eyed viewing method needed to see the 3d effect below.
Red blue glasses needed to see 3d effect below
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Monday, October 17, 2011
An inexpensive way to travel to Mars.
Want to see the planet Mars in 3d?
There is a website that NASA has that allows visitors to download photos from the mars rovers. Some of the photos are left right stereo pairs, taken with a stereo camera on the rovers. Spirit and Opportunity both had stereo cameras and have images sent back from their long mission on the surface of Mars.
I'll try to include a link to the site in another post.
I took the left right image and created this left right cross view image for my iPhone 3d viewer. The 3d camera app for iphone was used to created the left right stereo image below.
An iPhone and iPod can view 3d photos with the hasbro my 3d viewer.
Of course if you don't have the viewer you can use the cross eyed method to view this image on your monitor.
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There is a website that NASA has that allows visitors to download photos from the mars rovers. Some of the photos are left right stereo pairs, taken with a stereo camera on the rovers. Spirit and Opportunity both had stereo cameras and have images sent back from their long mission on the surface of Mars.
I'll try to include a link to the site in another post.
I took the left right image and created this left right cross view image for my iPhone 3d viewer. The 3d camera app for iphone was used to created the left right stereo image below.
An iPhone and iPod can view 3d photos with the hasbro my 3d viewer.
Of course if you don't have the viewer you can use the cross eyed method to view this image on your monitor.
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Monday, October 3, 2011
The observatory will be open tonight.
We are hoping for partly cloudy skies.
We will be filming some clips for a Faac cable show early in the evening and will have a few special guests.
We are also looking forward to meeting a bunch of LPHS students that have checked out the new astronomy club forming there.
Professor Dave Cinabro from Wayne State University will be presenting a Meade Deep Space imaging camera to the school superintendent. At least that is what I've heard as being a part of the activities.
We hopefully will be viewing the moon and ore objects as the weather permits.
We have at least three or four astronomy club members arriving from the FAAC club and will have telescopes setup outside if all goes well.
I believe we may have a scout group and some members of Henry Ford Community college Astronomy club as well. There will be a lot of people present so if your an occasional visitor and used to a quiet time of observing, this will be much more busy, with less scope time, but more telescopes and people.
If your a Faac member and want to stop by bring a scope or binocular or just bring yourself, we will have plenty of equipment and people there for a fun time.
Greg
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We will be filming some clips for a Faac cable show early in the evening and will have a few special guests.
We are also looking forward to meeting a bunch of LPHS students that have checked out the new astronomy club forming there.
Professor Dave Cinabro from Wayne State University will be presenting a Meade Deep Space imaging camera to the school superintendent. At least that is what I've heard as being a part of the activities.
We hopefully will be viewing the moon and ore objects as the weather permits.
We have at least three or four astronomy club members arriving from the FAAC club and will have telescopes setup outside if all goes well.
I believe we may have a scout group and some members of Henry Ford Community college Astronomy club as well. There will be a lot of people present so if your an occasional visitor and used to a quiet time of observing, this will be much more busy, with less scope time, but more telescopes and people.
If your a Faac member and want to stop by bring a scope or binocular or just bring yourself, we will have plenty of equipment and people there for a fun time.
Greg
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Thursday, September 22, 2011
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Hfcc club visit more photos
Brian Kutcher brought two telescopes and set them up rather quickly.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
We haven't announced the observatory as being open due to construction
Amazingly more people have been showing up when we didn't announce the site as being open.
We've been out on some clear nights, but due to construction activities we haven't been announcing we'd be out there.
We've been experimenting trying to register the supernova on a camera photograph with m101, but had no luck in getting the photo to look good.
Part of the problem is sky glow and our location being in a very bright environment. We are in the city so there is a lot of sky glow.
We don't have the best astrophotography cameras, actually our Stellacam is a video camera which supposedly does it all, but it used video signals and really is a enhanced video camera. This limits it's quality of output and usefulness.
A blog reader asked me if he could come by and see the supernova. The short answer is you can stop by, but I don't think you'll see the supernova and m101 visually. The supernova would appear as one of a few stars if it's bright enough and we can locate it. We may locate it and see stars and part of the core of the galaxy and guess which faint star may be the supernova, but you probably won't know which one is the supernova while looking because you may not even see the core due to skyglow to figure out which star is the supernova. So if you looked at the sky right now with the c14 from the observatory you may see a field of stars and say I saw it, but you may not be able to tell which star was the actual supernova.
The supernova is getting more dim we believe because it may have been discovered later than scientists thought it was. It may not be getting brighter but fainter and the weather doesn't look promising for viewing.
If we are out we always welcome visitors. We are often out but are volunteers so we don't have set hours. We are usually out between 9pm and midnight on clear sky nights. Sometimes I go out there very late at night but I don't announce it because the sky clears and most people are already asleep. If we are out there we almost always welcome any visitor that stops by as long as they are over 18 or with a parent or guardian.
Here's a test process of an earlier shot of m42 I took some months back at HJRO. This is the core of the Orion Nebula. I played and adjusted the color curves of this image using a new app I downloaded on my iPad called "Filterstorm". This is a pretty fun iPad app and may not be as good as more advanced apps but is fun to use and play with and does a pretty good job on photos. It introduces some noise and doesn't have as powerful a noise filter as some desktop apps.
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We've been out on some clear nights, but due to construction activities we haven't been announcing we'd be out there.
We've been experimenting trying to register the supernova on a camera photograph with m101, but had no luck in getting the photo to look good.
Part of the problem is sky glow and our location being in a very bright environment. We are in the city so there is a lot of sky glow.
We don't have the best astrophotography cameras, actually our Stellacam is a video camera which supposedly does it all, but it used video signals and really is a enhanced video camera. This limits it's quality of output and usefulness.
A blog reader asked me if he could come by and see the supernova. The short answer is you can stop by, but I don't think you'll see the supernova and m101 visually. The supernova would appear as one of a few stars if it's bright enough and we can locate it. We may locate it and see stars and part of the core of the galaxy and guess which faint star may be the supernova, but you probably won't know which one is the supernova while looking because you may not even see the core due to skyglow to figure out which star is the supernova. So if you looked at the sky right now with the c14 from the observatory you may see a field of stars and say I saw it, but you may not be able to tell which star was the actual supernova.
The supernova is getting more dim we believe because it may have been discovered later than scientists thought it was. It may not be getting brighter but fainter and the weather doesn't look promising for viewing.
If we are out we always welcome visitors. We are often out but are volunteers so we don't have set hours. We are usually out between 9pm and midnight on clear sky nights. Sometimes I go out there very late at night but I don't announce it because the sky clears and most people are already asleep. If we are out there we almost always welcome any visitor that stops by as long as they are over 18 or with a parent or guardian.
Here's a test process of an earlier shot of m42 I took some months back at HJRO. This is the core of the Orion Nebula. I played and adjusted the color curves of this image using a new app I downloaded on my iPad called "Filterstorm". This is a pretty fun iPad app and may not be as good as more advanced apps but is fun to use and play with and does a pretty good job on photos. It introduces some noise and doesn't have as powerful a noise filter as some desktop apps.
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