dwells@fits.cx.nrao.edu (Don Wells) (12/06/90)
Archive-name: astro/hubble/fits-images/1990-11-30 Archive: nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov:[.HST]README.FIRST [128.183.10.4] Original-posting-by: dwells@fits.cx.nrao.edu (Don Wells) Original-subject: HST images via anonFTP and SPAN/HEPnet Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) In article <2053@stsci.EDU> on sci.space, subject "Re: HST images", jay@stsci.EDU (Jay Travisano) writes: JT> There have been a number of requests for Internet access to HST images. JT> It should be noted that all data from HST is proprietary for up to one JT> year, property of the scientists who propose the given observations. In JT> the current phase of Science Verification, most of these scientists have JT> been involved in the development of HST and/or its instruments. Unless JT> these folks (probably with NASA's approval) have decided to make their JT> data public prematurely, you are out of luck as far as getting actual JT> HST images (as opposed to just press-release photos). JT> -- JT> Jay Travisano JT> Space Telescope Science Institute Baltimore, Maryland JT> jay@stsci.edu JT> UUCP: ...!noao!stsci!jay SPAN: scivax::travisano There is a significant fact that Jay omitted to say: an interesting set of HST test images *have* been made publicly available, via anonFTP, and they are still available (I verified this just a moment ago). The image data were acquired in August and September in order to demonstrate the imaging capability of HST, and in order to have a representative set of authentic data for image restoration research workers to utilize. This fact was first mentioned in a message posted to sci.astro on 19-October: ACB> Newsgroups: sci.astro ACB> Keywords: HST, Hubble,images ACB> Organization: Phys. Sci.,Flinders University, S.A., Australia ACB> From: phacb@research.cc.flinders.edu.au (<A.C.Beresford>) ACB> Subject: HST images ACB> Date: 19 Oct 90 12:08:32 GMT ACB> ACB> Just seen that the proper images of some of the ACB> released Hubble photos have been put up for ACB> anonymous FTP at NSSDCA ( nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov) ACB> be warned they are about 5Megabytes each, in the ACB> FITS format i imagine). Too much for me to even ACB> get 1. Apart from bandwidth use, i dont have ACB> enough disk space . They are in directory ACB> HST . Most of the released pictures. Can also ACB> be had on mag tape from NSSDCA As ACB says, these data (they are dated 12-October) are in the "hst" subdirectory of anonymous-FTP on nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov [128.183.10.4], and are therefore freely available to the Internet. The same data are available to the DECnet internet as well, in the same directory on SPAN node NSSDCA [6277]: $ dir 6277::anon_dir:[000000.hst] Directory 6277::ANON_DIR:[000000.HST] HST_COVER_LETTER.TXT;1 README.FIRST;1 W0BS0102T_CVT.C0H;1 W0BU0101T_CVT.C0H;1 W0BU0102T_CVT.C0H;1 W0BV0102T_CVT.C0H;1 W0BW0103T_CVT.C0H;1 W0CG0108T_CVT.C0H;1 W0CK0101T_CVT.C0H;1 X0BQ0102T_CVT.C0H;1 X0BQ0102T_CVT.C1H;1 X0BQ0102T_CVT.D0H;1 X0BQ0102T_CVT.SHH;1 X0C80106T_CVT.C0H;1 X0C80106T_CVT.C1H;1 X0C80106T_CVT.D0H;1 X0C80106T_CVT.SHH;1 X0C90101T_CVT.C0H;1 X0C90101T_CVT.C1H;1 X0C90101T_CVT.D0H;1 X0C90101T_CVT.SHH;1 X0CJ010BT_CVT.C0H;1 X0CJ010BT_CVT.C1H;1 X0CJ010BT_CVT.D0H;1 X0CJ010BT_CVT.SHH;1 X0CJ010CT_CVT.C0H;1 X0CJ010CT_CVT.C1H;1 X0CJ010CT_CVT.D0H;1 X0CJ010CT_CVT.SHH;1 Total of 29 files. The files are in FITS format, with full, informative headers. The HST image files which I discussed in my recent posting about image compression and coding were taken from this set of 27 HST data files. -- Donald C. Wells, Assoc. Scientist | dwells@nrao.edu Nat. Radio Astronomy Observatory | 6654::DWELLS Edgemont Road | +1-804-296-0277 38:02.2N Charlottesville, VA 22903-2475 USA | +1-804-296-0278(Fax) 78:31.1W