Hubble Comes to Home Computers

[Sir Ulli]

For many years astronomical images from the world's telescopes were reserved for an elite of astronomers and technical people. Now anyone with a desktop computer running Adobe Photoshop software can try their hand at crafting astronomical images as beautiful as those from the Hubble Space Telescope. A free software plug-in, released today, makes a treasure trove of archival astronomical images and spectra from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and many other famous telescopes accessible to home astronomy enthusiasts.

Full Story and the Plugins for Gimp and Photoshop can be found here (http://www.astrobio.net/news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1064&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0)

Sir Ulli

[TC]

Thanks for the link - cool stuff!