[AZ-Observing] Re: Good Video about Orion's Nebula Trapeze
- From: "Richard Harshaw" <rharshaw2@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:50:31 -0700
Paul, when I was active in the Astro Society of Kansas City, someone brought
a CD to a meeting one night of an animated fly-through of the Milky Way, but
it may have been a first cut-- it was sort of raw and unpolished. Good
draft attempt though. I don't know whether the people who created it (I
think it may have been a JPL or NASA group) ever refined it or not.
Dick Harshaw
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Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Good Video about Orion's Nebula Trapeze
This video is available at a number of web sites, including the Hubble Space
Telescope site. Lots of good supporting information and >20 MB movies
(Quicktime or MPEG) are at: http://vis.sdsc.edu/research/orion.html
I wish it could be run backwards, because that would start with the
telescope view we recognize.
Great video, nevertheless. We always forget the 3rd dimension when we look
at a lot of this stuff for real. Some of the 3D naked-eye star maps are
also great in that regard.
I wish someone would do a 3D movie or somesuch of the Milky Way so it would
be easier to visualize the spiral arms while looking up at the thing in the
night sky. It is a real struggle to piece it together from face-on map views
of the arms when you are looking at it edgewise and from the inside.
Paul Knauth
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