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05/15/2009 01:58:43 PM · #1 |
| With the recent spacewalk bringing Hubble into the news I got to thinking about downloading some hi-resolution files to print for the wall in Caden's room. Being eight, he's all about being an astronaut these days. Poking around the .gov site I don't see an obvious place to find large files. Has anybody found them and printed from them before? |
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05/15/2009 02:00:06 PM · #2 |
| Yeah, I'll find you the link(s) ... |
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05/15/2009 02:01:13 PM · #3 |
I think I found it, now to wade through for the best...
Suggestions of people's favorites?
Message edited by author 2009-05-15 14:01:27. |
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05/15/2009 02:04:03 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I think I found it, now to wade through for the best...
Suggestions of people's favorites? |
"The Pillars of Creation"; I don't have the link, but it's a wallpaper of mine...
R. |
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05/15/2009 02:06:05 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
I think I found it, now to wade through for the best...
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"The Pillars of Creation"; I don't have the link, but it's a wallpaper of mine...
R. |
Ya, that's a good one. One of my favs too. |
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05/15/2009 02:07:27 PM · #6 |
NPR has a little slideshow where astronomers pick their own favorite images and has audio where they explain why. A good link
Astronomers pick their favorite Hubble images |
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05/15/2009 02:07:46 PM · #7 |
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05/15/2009 02:10:41 PM · #8 |
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05/15/2009 02:25:48 PM · #9 |
| How big are hubble pics anyway? Now that I think of the age of Hubble, I'm guessing they might be pretty small... |
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05/15/2009 02:41:48 PM · #10 |
Just stumbled across this one: //www.spacetelescope.org
And here's the copyright info: //www.spacetelescope.org/copyright.html
And there's a variety of sizes/compression levels to meet your needs!
Message edited by author 2009-05-15 14:43:19. |
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05/15/2009 05:28:57 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
How big are hubble pics anyway? Now that I think of the age of Hubble, I'm guessing they might be pretty small... |
Some of them are huge, doc. I'm looking at one that's 200Mb in downloadable original. Some seem to be as small as 6Mb. A lot of them are stitched together, so they get really big.
R.
ETA, that's actually the large *JPEG* LOL. The original is downloadable, 500Mb. It's stitched together from 48 exposures. It's the Carina Nebula shot.
Message edited by author 2009-05-15 17:30:39. |
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05/15/2009 05:46:19 PM · #12 |
| I was finding lots that were in the 1/2 to 1 MB range. |
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05/15/2009 05:47:15 PM · #13 |
| Didn't see this one posted yet- Nasa Photo of the Day |
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05/15/2009 06:27:20 PM · #14 |
| Thanks for the IOTD link -- NASA must have more photo galleries than ... notice how they actually facilitate downloading their images? Quite the refreshing change in attitude ... :-) |
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05/15/2009 07:21:55 PM · #15 |
Originally posted by DrAchoo:
Being eight, he's all about being an astronaut these days. |
I am 38 and still all about being an astronaut (oh well one can dream).
I like the NASA IOTD, its great to see some of the old Apollo era images that are rarely, if ever, seen anywhere else. #115 is one of my favorites. |
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05/15/2009 08:10:31 PM · #16 |
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09/09/2009 02:49:07 PM · #17 |
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09/09/2009 03:15:52 PM · #18 |
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09/09/2009 06:47:44 PM · #19 |
| Cool stuff indeed! It's great to see Hubble back to doing ground-breaking science, a task at which it has excelled. |
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09/10/2009 11:46:29 AM · #20 |
Try
//www.boston.com/bigpicture/
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