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Oxygen, oxygen, I need oxygen, oh this is HUGE - Seinfield episode, date unknown.
Actually, not that huge, but definately oxygen. A Kitts Peak team doing a view of Andromeda two decades ago were discrete enough to capture surrounding deep space in ways that are just not found in any other Andromeda images. Forget the oxygen, this news is H U G E.
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Source site for Andromeda deep space images. Click on 'Next', and 'Previous' at this link to understand the nature of these photographs which I have enhanced to show Andromeda's deep space aspects. I do not know enough astronomical lore to successfully interpret just exactly what these two Andromeda deep space reverse negative views (click above) are telling us about Andromeda in deep space, except, to be able to see there are some extremely interesting things going on outward bound around Andromeda.
There are two different Andromeda views, each which seems to have been photographed in different criterias since both images are quite different under investigation by similar enhancement techniques, completed (circ. Jan 2002) for inclusion in GIC.
QUICK IMAGE ANALYSIS
Original - far view and closer view - reverse negative
Next are the two images as factored by myself. Using the originals, image adjustment shows sheeting and broadband formations.
In these next views, the original images were rotated to the right by 90 degrees, switched to real negatives, and enhanced, by both standard image hightening methods, and also by histogram equalize yielding the stark contrasts. Each image pair is from two separate plates, placed onscreen side by side for instant comparison.
Enhanced - far view and closer view - real negative
Histogram - far view and closer view - real negative
Histogram throws away grey tones, thus highlighting significant drops and increases in areas of radiance. Histogram can be useful in revealing rather starkly, shapes whose forms can be lost to quick recognition by eye when blended among many diffuse and weak grey tones.
A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT ANALYSIS - DIMMED ORIGINALS
Next are the same two original images, factored by myself, after first dimming each reverse negative version by more than -30 points in Gamma Correction. After dimming the originals, the resulting enhancements show the sheeting and broadband formations in more distinct ways.
What is noticed at once, is that the deep space drifting in sundry matter in the 'farther view', and deep space broad band ribbing which meanders in and out in the 'closer view', are seen in routine enhancing techniques, which strongly suggests these deep space sundry matter artifacts are actually part of the Andromeda address and not spurious to the telescope or photo plates.
In fact, two 'clues' link these deep space sundry formations to other images, making the sundry formations (sheeting and meandering broadbands) less suspicious as a character of image wash and plate liquids, and more a case of fortuitous capture on film. Clue 1 Clue 2
FARTHER VIEW - PULLED BACK IN DEEP SPACE
CLOSER VIEW - MOVED IN A BIT CLOSER IN DEEP SPACE
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Click for dimmed closer view full size.
Just so you are not fooled the way I was at first, the closer view is only slightly zoomed, the two are almost the same size. What is distinct is the large round glowing object in the upper middle of the farther view is entirely missing from the closer view.
CLUE 1 - ENVELOPE PUSHED HARD OVER THE GLASS TABLETOP
These next three views are zooms from the 'closer' original first dimmed by over -30 points in gamma correction before being converted to real negative.
A particularly interesting aspect of the above views is a formation commotion seen off the right edge of Andromeda, this is the only other Andromeda image so far found for use in GIC that shows a formation is out there. This seems a partial glimpse of what is elsewhere hailed as the Bullseye.
Several, rather than one, views are shown since the formation is vague not distinct, therefore modest stages of enhancement, plus image combinations in stereo, have been used to get a best glimpse possible of the formation.
A bullseye formation per se is not seen in the above black and white, however, the above black and white image shows that some form of dim media formation is definately out there at the far right edge of Andromeda, and, basic textures of this area seem very similar to the Bullseye's makeup, so, let's push the edge of the envelope hard over under the overseer's weedy lips and say this collaborates the proposed hard copy existence of the 'Bullseye'.
A star map (composite image next) is useful to identify moments of scale and position between the two images, bright dots in the blue panel match dots in the grey panel, the blue panel at slightly larger scale. The grey panel looses definition if enlarged any further.
The same starmap (pattern of bright dots), is used to identify the position of a giant deep space oval near Andromeda with respect to the position of the 'bullseye' at Andromeda. The giant oval is so large its rills cannot all be shown in a small scale image. For instance, in this reduction to 1/2 size, rills in the oval's midrift (in the blue area) cannot be seen. The midrift rills can be seen without question in GIC's giant oval composite full size.
Other circumpherential rill patterns found for GIC are listed in a thumbnail gallery here.
CLUE 2 - DEEP SPACE RIPPLING
Deep space rippling (the possibility of) has been noticed and pointed out in GIC. Next is a Noao view of LMC and SMC which seems to show important rippling in deep space in which drift the two tiny diffuse galaxies (LMC is at the left in the green image next).
First glance at this bright green image (profoundly enhanced by myself, here is the original) suggests streaking from false image wash, however a 3D overlay view (both pictures merged into a single view using eyesight) shows definate non-lineal and curved ribs, plus a dominant drift of sundry matter slanting down center stage between the two small galaxies.
There is an intrinsic problem displaying a larger image with hordes of sprintles (point source datas) in a smaller size, in that the sprintles tend to gang up and form spurious patterns that fool the eyes, such as lines, streaks, and curves which may not be really there.
Therefore two stereo views are shown with the sprintles problem self apparant, however both stereo views also show the same basic dominant cases of deep space rippling, so you can get the clue (as I wish to believe) that the deep space which houses these small galaxies in our local galaxy neighborhood is very excited and the excitement glows in the form of very dim low radiant sundry matter.
The above green image is included in this page, near the bottom. Caution - if viewing this page - it has large images, long load time.
Deep space rippling takes on a greater character when viewed as manifestations of giant gravity waves visible by their excitment. A collection of rippled coherent formations is presented in GIC, all of them noticed by myself and to my knowledge not shown anywhere else in astronomy as of this date circ. Jan/2002.
COLLABORATING SHEETING IMAGE
This (next image) might be image wash rather than deep space sheeting around Andromeda, on the other hand, the bright and dark bands approximately correspond with bright and dark sheeting bands in the above black and white image. Therefore, a dim lightbulb turns on in the little squirrel's cage in the brain and the little squirrel starts to run. Meaning, this sheeting in some form or another might actually be there. Which means Andromeda is both roiling through and creating its own sheeting drifts, and at the same time is passing through huge broad bandwidths of coherent material sheeting which is already there.
The above two color enhancements are being used elsewhere in GIC with some suspician in that the lines down the right edge are simply too straight, indicating wash, rather than glimpse of broad broadbands. On the other hand, perhaps it is in part correct, revealed by astronomer or telescope film trying to make sense of something not fully understood at the time the image was taken and factored for use by astronomers.
The color snapshot view is the same image as is used to feature the giant bullseye, except, here, above, the image was clipped, and the right half dramatically enhanced a different way by myself (supressing the Bullseye and exposing sheeting) to see if such broadband sheeting is realistic.
These two images are featured here, in a study of rills including the Hadley Rill on the Moon.
Sheeting per se is a GIC topic, here.
This image next, from an astronomer's investigation of infrared formations at Andromeda, includes an image of a suspected wider body to Andromeda at large. The GIC investigation of the whole subject is here.
The yellow areas to the right extend beyond normal Andromeda in normal optical light ranges and were captured in dim medias in color, brought to light by strong enhancement by the curious astronomer, and further strongly enhanced by myself for use in GIC.
You can see how far the extended area in yellow color actually is, in that nearby small galaxy M110 (well known in being present in nearly every image made of Andromeda in full) is seen peeping above the lower edge of the frame and is so small it can go unnoticed.
SUMMARY
The images shown in all of the above, are attempts to determine (inconclusively) if, or if not, deep space sheeting and rippling is to be found around Andromeda. Inconclusive mean sheeting and rippling broadband phenomena seem to be there in coherent low luminousity excitements, but, no image seems to have ever been taken looking at this dim media sundary matter in surrounding deep space specifically, so I can only work with what I can coax out of existing images by using profound levels of image enhancing to dig out the dimmer stuff which may be lurking (hidden) unrecognized in the images.
The above yellow area colored image is one Andromeda view in which an astronomer and collegues have explicitly explored the possibility of there being more in dim low radiant reaches of Andromeda, although, if I understand it correctly, the image itself was not photographed looking for extended reaches, it was something the astronomer found when looking for collaboratives of a suspected extended infra red size for Andromeda.
GIC has a page which shows more to Andromeda itself, but, the images used do not reveal anything about surrounding Andromeda deep space, furthermore, these images used are the only ones so far found that do show deep vertical underdepth to Andromeda at large.
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I cannot tell you how puzzling this image is.
It is a Dss view of a region of space near LMC, this view has the
RA of LMC shifted to the right by +20 as in
(RA 05 23 36.00 = LMC) shifted to (RA 05 43 36.00).
Dominant objects are surrounded by very turbulent deep space. Swaths of dark intermingle with swaths of bright, and the most dominant object itself is very irregular in a massive supersize extending well beyond the normal visible light telescope view of a small irregular dwarf galaxy.
When viewing the above image pairs in stereo (overlay two images together by eyesight) you can see how extemely irregular the surface area is, like looking down on Moonscape close up.
This right shifted view is filled with deep space matters in drifts, clumps, cyclonnic swirls, parallel ripples, and dark cavities. It is extremely bright and detailed filled.
If fills me with hope that astronomers will be able to photograph deep space in ways that can reveal gravity waves with stark clarity.
Continuing to examine this Dss view near LMC (- LMC is rightshifted far offscreen to the right in the frame -) gobs of bright stuff are drifting around everywhere.
Next is the same view intensified by Histogram Equalize, which only brightened and thickened salient details but did not obliterate them. It means the original in the Dss jukebox is already well handled in image hightening by whoever supplied the view for Dss.
Histogram enhancement changes are not obliterative
It is obvious the material seen above belongs to some of the local galaxy neighborhood and I won't claim stupidity in saying the bright material does not have a name, except I do not know what the name, or names for this or these object(s) is. Now you can understand in my opening remarks the word 'puzzling'.
I have tried numerous excape routes into the Internet to see if I can find anything with the RA specs but no luck, not even close, the RA specs for this region in local deep space remain unclaimed.
For instance a RA shift of just +1.5 as in (RA 04 03 54.40) to (RA 04 05 84.40) will shift a centered object well to the right in a Dss plate. So therefore an RA shift of +20 starting with the RA for the LMC galaxy, will esentially be an entirely different region of space.
Which adds to the puzzle, are the objects actually local, or far away.
The puzzling image is a 1st generation image but defies the gods in being so detail filled and bright, compared to typical Dss 1st generation images, which sometimes have almost no content at all.
In fact the image density vanishes abruptly when moving RA back toward LMC. For example here is a Dss 1st generation view shifted slightly left of the above RA and as seen at once there is nothing in this shifted view except for a few small vague clumps of sneeze vapour, only seen when the Dss original is intensified by Histogram Equalize.
A tiny shift rightward in RA vanishes the intensely interesting view.
In constrast, the puzzling Dss plate is as is, unenhanced.
Here next is a side by side comparative view of the central object shifted as first uncovered, then shifted toward center screen as much as possible.
I tried increment by increment shifting the central object toward center screen as much as possible, but could only shift so far when the plate abruptly changed in media density, to nearly nothing. See Image 1 above.
Here next is the abrupt Dss plate boundry, between lots to see, and nothing to see.
In these two views side by side, it can be seen where datas match, except datas in the left image are skimpy at best compared to the filled bright page which has similar data landmarks.
Click 1 for a full sized original of the two main views.
Click 2 for a full sized original of the two main views enhanced by histogram equalize.
In viewing the full sized scenescapes, the senses cannot help but be nearly overwhelmed by the sensations of swirls and concentrics around points, plus small collections of rill lines formed in different myriad directions.
Click on (click 1) again.
It is suspected in GIC that these rills are visible evidence of gravity waves, even if hurtling along at the speed of light their presence will seem in a standing or slow motion mode due to the immense light year distances through which each small or large wave is passing.
Of particular interest are the dark (rather than bright) cavities and indentations, this whole region of deep space (if it is indeed deep space and not a chance overlay of star fields captured from within our own galaxy) looks in fact not unlike a star field of amorphous nature within which new stars particularly giant hot bright blue stars are energetically formed, except, this view is supposedly of deep space, viewing an area of deep space to the the right of the LMC location.
Next is a closeup of a particularly intriguing dark cavity. Both original, and histogram views are shown for comparison side by side. The first view can be focused together for stereo by going crosseyed. The second view (smaller) can also be focused as if viewing a comic page stereogram.
Click for a full sized original of the two dark cavity views.
Here is another dark cavity, again, original and histogram views shown side by side for the sake of visual comparison.
Click for a full sized original of the dark cavity views.
Once again I have to remark on how puzzling this Dss plate actually is. I have downloaded a count pushing 1000 in Dss views over the past 3 years and have not seen anything even vaguely comparing to the amount of data contained in this particular Dss scene, it is as if the plate had been highly contrasted in developement, but, even if this was done, the plate itself had to have been unusual in some way to have captured so much data that could be enhanced by a curious astronomer before being posted to the Dss archives.
Ps I forgot to mention how I came about acquiring the plate. It was by accident, I accentally typed into Dss jukebox request an RA right shift of +20 points instead of +2 points in wishing a right screen look at the LMC location.
Of course I am only guessing as to how the plate came to be. But, needless to say, would sure like to see more like this. It is because, in every way I know in looking at astronomy images, deep space is filled with riches and textures beyond current day beliefs. GM.
Another area of deep space, this at RA co-oridinates (05 19 7), has a bright band of sundry material crossing it and noticable dark cleffs.
The following is an earlier study circ. 1998 speculating on the possibility the river spill delta planes featured in the following are a result of pulsations in a galayy, as the core breaths, so to speak. A similar noticable delta river spill plane is seen in Bodes Galaxy. In fact many galaxies show traces of a spill plane - usually however not clearly formed, or partially obscured in overlaying haze - which may be caused by jetting pulsations as the jet source moves slowly through a vector at odd angle to the horizon vector of the pulsating jet stream.
