[AZ-Observing] Re: Armchair Galaxy-Spotting
- From: "Jimmy Ray" <jimmy_ray@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:49:57 -0700
Hi Stan,
Thanks for the FYI. Fun, very interesting and highly addictive....
Jimmy Ray
(660+ classified and counting)
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From: "Stan Gorodenski" <stan_gorodenski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "AZ-Observing" <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2007 11:05
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Armchair Galaxy-Spotting
FYI.
Stan
If you can tell a star from a galaxy, astronomers at Portsmouth and
Oxford universities in the United Kingdom and Johns Hopkins University
in the United States would like you and your computer to help classify
about a million images from the robotic Sloan Digital Sky Survey
telescope at Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, New Mexico.
Volunteers are invited to go to www.galaxyzoo.org
<http://www.galaxyzoo.org> to see pictures of galaxies, "most of which
have never been viewed by human eyes before," according to a statement
on the Web site. Participants will categorize each image as spiral,
elliptical, star/don't know, or mergers. The spiral galaxies are then
subdivided into clockwise, anticlockwise, and edge-on.
"The human brain is actually better than a computer at pattern
recognition tasks like this," says Oxford astrophysicist Kevin
Schawinski. Astrophysicist Bob Nichol of Portsmouth adds that getting
the galaxies classified is "as fundamental as knowing if a human is male
or female."
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