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posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 09:47pm on 11/02/2004
here's a curly question (if a bit odd ;)

i've forgotten where i got the image i use as my default icon.
yeah, it dumb, but its been a while. and i've had a system crash in the meantime.

i'm looking to get the original again. its large. its astronomical. it probably came from a nasa image collection. at least a year or more ago.

can anyone help? (i'm working my way through nasa's archive, but they're very generous ...)
Mood:: 'embarrassed' embarrassed
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posted by [identity profile] obsoletechild.livejournal.com at 06:42am on 11/02/2004
Do you know enough astronomy to narrow your hunt down a bit? The image is tough to discern here - what exactly am I looking at?
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posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 05:02pm on 12/02/2004
heh!

if i could remember that, i'd have found it myself ;)

i think its a nebula - but i'm not sure.

the image to which i refer, is of course the eye-like image on black background.

i took a 1600x1200 image, cropped it, and shrunk it to 100x100.
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posted by [identity profile] obsoletechild.livejournal.com at 06:58am on 11/02/2004
ah-HA! I found it (amazing I know).
Its here http://herschel.jpl.nasa.gov/science/starsAll.html under section 6 entitled "the star dies, enriching the ISM". Bottom row of images, far right.
At least, I'm fairly certain that's the one.
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posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 05:11pm on 12/02/2004
it is the very same!

many, many thanks. been going mad as i hunted through thousands of images. now i have a concrete clue where the original large format image might be - on the hubble site.

again, many thanks.
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posted by [personal profile] maelorin at 04:15am on 14/02/2004
it is definately the right image.

incidently, the image was taken by the hubble telescope. it is the 'eskimo' nebula. (if anyone is interested, i can provide more details ;)

i chose it because it looked kinda like an eye with something reflected onto it. (reference to a conversation i'd had at the time.)
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