A DEEP FIELD RICH WITH THIN ARCS OF GRAVITATIONAL LENSING, SEEN ONLY WHEN THE DEEP FIELD IS VERY HIGHLY ENHANCED. THE ARCS SHOW WHERE GALAXY CONCENTRATIONS AND BULGES ARE LENSING THE MOST Click for original half size Click for original full size Galaxy cluster Abell 1689 is the test field, the test to see how much gravitational lensing occurs by clusters of galaxies. Abell 1689 images at APOD Thin arcs of multiple gravitational lensings reveal where bulges in galaxy clustering has more gravity with which to lens. - July 25/2003 Cross reference Arc.htm

The myriads of gravitational lens arcs are so thin that only in large size images are they easily seen. One image, experimentally enhanced far beyond outrageous norms, turns inside out to have impressive show of arcs even in small screen views suitable for side by side virtual stereo.









Gravitational arcs seem to flow in streams, but this is not flowing. Arcs around the right outer flank of the buldge of galaxies, the arcs converge in a streaming string around the lower flank of the main galaxy bubble, which tells at once interpretive remarks of the kinds of mass conglomerates causing coherent physics in the streaming converging strings. The interpretive remarks are yours to make, you know more about arcs and arcing than me.

NEXT

Each one of the three following enhancements, subtle variations in the density mixture of red vrs blue, show slightly different details in the nature of the streaming converging arcs.







NEXT

I was not able to find anywhere an original of the composite, it was downloaded some time ago, apparently, the composite may have been withdrawn from original available source.


Click for half size
Click for full size


Click for half size
Click for full size


Click for half size
Click for full size

Source images of Abell 1689 are all large, with a pallet of small headcuts available from public sites for download. The composite view shown above, impressively enhanced, has no original that I could find, that is, the original did not seem to be in my computer and a search on the internet for an original turned up nothing, if one was there for instance at a hubble site at the time I downloaded, it has since been withdrawn.

Also, bucking the trend, the composite image did not reveal very much new under the ordeals of significant enhancements, certain details come through clearer, the details are in the original, less clear but there.

Below is a picklist of large images, all too finely detailed to show reduced to duo screen sized versions. Each picklist shows the gravitational arcs clearly, so many that anyone seeing how many for the first time must at once revise their theories.

Image 1         Image 2
Image 3         Image 4
Image 5         Image 6
Image 7         Image 8
Image 9         Image 10
Image 11         Image 12
Image 13         Image 14
Image 15         Image 16

Web site/display/designs/image enhancements - Greydon Moore World's largest cosmic teaching site - Ottawa 2001/2004         form   A & O 3 3