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NASA Hubble Space Telescope Collection
Title:
Process Astronomical Images on Your Home Computer Just Like the Experts
Object Name:
AM0644-741
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Anyone with a desktop computer running Adobe® Photoshop® or Adobe Photoshop Elements software can try their hand at crafting astronomical images as beautiful as Hubble Space Telescope's. A free software plug-in being released today for Photoshop makes the treasure of archival astronomical images and spectra from Hubble Space Telescope, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, The European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope, the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-Ray Observatory and many other famous telescopes accessible to home astronomy enthusiasts.

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*Image Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/], ESA [ http://www.spacetel…] and The Hubble Heritage [ http://heritage.sts…] Team (STScI [ http://www.stsci.ed…]/AURA [ http://www.aura-ast…])
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*Image Type:*: Astronomical/Illustr ation
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*Release Date*:July 8, 2004 09:00 AM (EDT)
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*News Release Number:*: STScI-2004-53a
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*Title*:Process Astronomical Images on Your Home Computer Just Like the Experts
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*Description*:

This is an example created using the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator. The image of a portion of the ring galaxy AM0644-741 was made using Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. Top: original black and white images obtained through filters isolating red, green and blue light. Middle: the separate images reassigned the primary colors red, green and blue. Bottom: the combined full color image.
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Sun
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Advanced Camera for Surveys
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ESO
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Aura
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Spitzer Space Telescope
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Very Large Telescope
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XMM-Newton
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Hubble Space Telescope (HST)
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July 8, 2004
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2004
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SPD-HUBBLE-STScI-200 4-53a
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Release Date:
July 8, 2004 09:00 AM (EDT)

Process Astronomical Images on Your Home Computer Just Like the Experts