Free Hubble home software now available

[Welles]

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.

More info...

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n0407/08hstsoftware/

Get the plugin (both Mac and Windows)

http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/fits_liberator/

[Erik]

I just arrived at Fomalhaut after a very pleasant journey from Sadalsuud, and I decided to check my earth mail.
This looks good. very good.

Thanks, Commander Welles!

[Rantin Al]

[upset] Was that you that cut me up at Alpha Centauri, coming out of warp drive like you were being chased by a horde of Nunga Bats??



Thanks Welles, I'll put in a word about your promotion.

[theKeeper]

Wow VERY cool man thanks!

This'll be great to fool with.

[Erik]

No, certainly not! Your guys from R'ant-tin usually have the black hole blues so I take the vortex shortcuts with my chroma-technology foton sails.

[Welles]

Originally Posted by Erik

No, certainly not! Your guys from R'ant-tin usually have the black hole blues so I take the vortex shortcuts with my chroma-technology foton sails.

[Rantin Al]

Another thread hits a cosmic tangent in jig time.
Must be a record.

Al.