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?? 3[



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]

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.

[sherly]

If you like pictures of nebulas, you'll really like Hubble Screensaver Collection 2. The screensaver features many professional-quality images with captions that describe the celestial denizens pictured. The installation ends with the option to set the program as the default screensaver toy story and to launch the Display control panel's Screen Saver tab. Customizable settings include the ability to pick transition effects and to select actions that interrupt the screensaver. Despite the option to mute background sounds, the program doesn't come with a soundtrack. We wished we could set how long the images displayed, since the pictures linger for at least 25 seconds. Also, the random order sometimes San Antonio apartment results in seeing the same image twice in a row. Nonetheless, outer-space enthusiasts should enjoy the otherworldly beauty of the images in Hubble Screensaver Collection 2.