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The new Gemini south infra red telescope is now online in the Andes in Chile, partner to Gemini north stationed high up in Hawaii. First images from Gemini south are interesting, firstly, because they are very blurred, secondly because small areas in the pics can be zoomed to conciderable size showing the same level of blurry details, thirdly because the false coloring used to produce infra red (invisible) to visible view are artistic enough to comprise works of art of high artistic value full praise no slight meant to be implied or intended, the colors are so striking it makes working on Gemini south first light images a pleasure to work on.
One very nice first image is yet another pillar, in Ngc 6357, this in all ways seeming to be fully evolved as are major pillars shown here 1 and here 2 with now the addition of the Ngc 6357 critter to the GIC catalogue re-enforces belief that such pillars are so classically characteristically formed and similar they may be small black holes made visible by condensation and excitement of matter around them.
The little polywoggles (lower right) in this image are small against vast stellar background drift fields.
WIDE EXPANSE
One thing apparent at once when viewing the above collection of images in stereo overlay by merging two images together by eyesight, is that vast distances are involved here in this area, the field is more horizontal slanting back to the rear the upthrusting a long way back from the trapezoid formation in the lower right forefront of the 3D screen.
ORION TRAPEZIUM IN INFRA RED
A second Gemini south first light image is an area of the Orion Trapezium, in infra red, concidered according to Gemini south press blurbs, the best penetration of infra red yet into the secret hearts of the Trapezium.
Two things are worth very loud remarks in GIC. First is that a large dark area in the Gemini south original image release is actually filled with coherent matter demonstrating that the Gemini south telescope is actually capturing a great deal of material, and secondly, a small (very small) eerie blip in the picture has a quality and look unlike any seen anywhere before in an astronomy image, leads to a belief this may be an actual wandering large planet rather than a proplyd or small star.
Except, it is egg-shaped oval not a perfect sphere, seen in the image clicked under 'blip' above, the egg shape very well making it something else and that something else is ?. A mystery yes, something that Buddists and eastern law mystics might want to meditate on, yes, something that pros might want to analyse, no, not until a better picture of it lays before their desk in the computer screen, same as me - no work waste.
A seriously sincere hint to the unwise, wisdom comes at once by making attempt to view these next Trapezium images in stereo. In mono they are very puke, very untoward, in stereo, dull vague shapes stretch out and transform morphing into eerie intriguing even facinating shapes.
From the original, a completely dark area in stereo.
Witness how much light leaked into the Gemini telescope. That cavity in-hole is everything but dark.
Maximum crank reveals little more in the in-hole, some of the in-hole has photographed dark.
The leakage from the in-hole is infra red heat glow. It is possible glow can also be captured in visible light from this cavity.
Look at this image next, to the eerie little sphere in mid screen. Can you tell what it is, I can't, but am quessing a rogue large planet wandering on its own through the Trapezium.
See if you can spot the tiny glowing mystery egg in the next image.
Seen more by refraction rather than glow, this is definatively an object out of synch with its background and surroundings.
Egg shaped, it doesn't fit anywhere in any classifications, and, seems to glow like a frosty Fabrege art piece.
If you look at the images further above starting with Image 1, you will see more than one tiny little blip, and intense tiny color dots (including this in green next shown in highlighted window). It seems some elemental protostructing at work has been captured in these images.
This tiny hot glowing green dot in a round dark oval may be a proplyd of kind similar to hot dot proplyds seen in Orion.
Another proplyd in the Gemini telescope Trapezium image, along with proplyds in Orion from this Stsci site.
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I have to freely confess enjoying factoring these Gemini south images. As an artist with a poet's metronome and a musician's love of lyrics and rhythms, I found these images and their colors to be particularly rich in satisfactions when enhancing versions then displaying them in stereo in a Netscape 4 browser to see what I've got, even though I intrinsically cringe away from blurry images unless the blurry is the only image I've got. In this case no cringe, these, I enjoyed as they are, arrived, downloaded factory fresh. GM.
Web site/display/designs/image enhancements - Greydon Moore World's largest cosmic teaching site - Ottawa 2001/2004 form A & O 3 3
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