Age of the Milky Way Workshop

July 6-10, 2007

Photometry Data

These are the photometry (brightness data) from the ImageJ analysis of the Messier 11 field.

• Excel spreadsheet with combined data from almost everyone at the workshop. Includes graphs plotting the data.

0.8-meter Imaging Data

The data have been processed before posting on here; for raw data, please contact the organizers.

To get the data, right-click (PC) or ctrl-click (Mac) and save the FITS file to disk. If you would like to have a file in another format (like JPG), open the FITS file in ImageJ, adjust the brightness and contrast until you are happy, then save the image as a JPG.

You can make a color image using instructions such as these. Use the B band for blue, V-band for green, and R-band for red. For images without an R-band, use the B for blue, the V for red, and the BV for green (I created this by taking the square root of the product of the B and V images). You may want to change your images to a logarithmic stretch before combining them for more pleasing colors. (In ImageJ, go to Process -- Math -- Log).

Each image is about 16 MB in size; images of the same object have been aligned to make assembling color images simpler.

• Images from the 2007 Workshop

  Object	Blue Image	Green Image	Red Image
  Lagoon Nebula (M8)	B band	V band	R band
  Wild Duck (M11)	B band	BV "band"	V band
  Dumbbell Nebula (M27)	B band	V band	R band
  Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)	B band	V band	R band
  Comet LINEAR (C/2006 VZ13); centered on stars	B band	V band	R band
  Comet LINEAR (C/2006 VZ13); centered on comet	B band	V band	R band
  Draco Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy			R band

• Images From Previous Workshops

  Images from last year's workshop can be found here. Images include M101, the Dumbbell Nebula, the Whirlpool Galaxy, the Ring Nebula, the Trifid Nebula, and many others!

  NGC 6791	B band (16MB)	V band (16MB)
  NGC 6633	B band (16MB)	V band (16MB)