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Sky Data 77
Downloading Photographic
Images
Starry Night Pro shows over 2.5 million
objects and Starry Night Pro Plus shows
over 17 million celestial objects, but this is
only a tiny fraction of the stars and objects
that can be seen from Earth using
telescopes.
On the Internet, the Space Telescope
Science Institute (STScI) hosts a very
large database, called the Digitized Sky
Survey (DSS). This survey contains large,
high-resolution pictures of the entire night
sky. The database is so large that it is
distributed on a few hundred CD-ROMs.
Starry Night makes it easy to look at the
thousands of galaxies, nebulae, and other
astronomical phenomena that are
contained in this database.
The STScI offers an online form you can
fill out to request a picture of the sky.
Starry Night makes this process
considerably easier. Just zoom in on the
part of the sky that you want an image of,
and select
LiveSky->Show Photographic Image.
Getting a picture from the Digitized Sky
Survey to your browser can take up to a
few minutes, so you have to be patient.
The reason for the delay is that the
Digitized Sky Survey’s computer has to
assemble your request from its extensive
database.
Tip: You can only download Digitized Sky
Survey images when your field of view is
between about 1.5 arcminutes and 30
arcminutes. If your field of view is outside
this range, this menu item will appear
greyed out.
Example: Viewing the Horsehead
Nebula using the
Digitized Sky Survey.
1Open the
Find pane and type in
“horsehead”. Starry Night should list the
Horsehead Nebula.
2 Double-click on the Horsehead
Nebula’s entry in the list, to centre on this
object.
3 Now use the zoom buttons in the tool-
bar to zoom in to a field of view of about
20' (20 arcminutes), so that the Horsehead
Nebula almost fills the screen.
4Choose
LiveSky->Show Photographic Image to
obtain an image of the Horsehead Nebula
from the Digitized Sky Survey. The new
image will open in your web browser.
In this example, we used the Digitized Sky
Survey to load an image of an object
which Starry Night already had an image
for. You would be more likely to use the
Digitized Sky Survey to download images
of areas of the sky for which Starry Night
does not have a detailed image. One way
to explore with the Digitized Sky Survey
is to turn on the NGC/IC database or the
Galaxies database and look for an
interesting cluster of galaxies. Zoom in on
a promising cluster and then request the
Digitized Sky Survey image for a detailed
view.
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