[sci.astro] new CD Rom gifs available

roberts@iisat.uucp (Greg Roberts) (12/19/90)

Last night I completed downloading about 38 new gif images from Peter Yee.
These images are from the Voyager CD Rom Collection. I picked a sample of
each of the major satellites and the planet itself. The images have the
names CXXXXXXX.gif . There is also a single image if Saturn in this set
which was done as a test. It has the same name format.

These images are all 800X800X256 greyscale. The average about 300K in size.
I am pleased with the conversions that Peter was able to do. The images are
fairly flat in contrast, so I will be enhancing each image to bring out the
interesting features. The companion image will have the same file name as
the original, but will have the form MXXXXXXX.gif . This should give everyone
an idea of what a raw picture, and some fundamental processing can do.

The images are available from iris1.ucis.dal.ca by anon ftp . Note that
there are restricted hours from 5pm EST to 6am EST so that the university
can use the machine :-} too.

Have a greyscale Christmas
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yee@trident.arc.nasa.gov (Peter E. Yee) (12/21/90)

The images that Greg mentioned are also available via anonymous ftp to
ames.arc.nasa.gov.  Directory is /pub/SPACE/GIF.  All files are named
cXXXXXXXX.gif.  These are GIF conversions of files that Greg sent me in
a compressed format that can be extracted to FITS format.  I used to
pbmplus to convert to GIF (had to hack around a colors problem in ppmtogif).
The images could use some brightening in some cases.  Access to ames is
available 24 hours a day.
							-Peter Yee
							yee@ames.arc.nasa.gov
							ames!yee