Monthly Archives: January 2011

More than a mosaic engine!

Posted on January 29, 2011 by astrocompute

Montage will do much more than create mosaics. The components of the toolkit are very useful tools in their own right, and can do tasks such as the following: Convert FITS images or mosaics into grayscale or color JPEG images; … Continue reading →

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Montage Wikipedia Page Released

Posted on January 22, 2011 by astrocompute

We have released a Wikipedia page for Montage. The page describes design, applications, performance, licensing, community contributions and other topics. The Montage Wikipedia page was prepared by Ms. Marcy Harbut.

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Spectacular New Three-Color Image of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Posted on January 15, 2011 by astrocompute

The image is a 3 x 3 degree 3-color mosaic of the Small Magellanic Cloud composed of images from the Two-Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) in the J band, the Digitized Sky Surveys in the B-band (blue) and the Spitzer Space … Continue reading →

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Create Three-Color Mosaics On Your Desktop!

Posted on January 6, 2011 by astrocompute

If you want to do this, then a set of C-shell scripts kindly contributed by Dr. Colin Aspin (University of Hawaii) makes the task easy for you. He contributed three scripts that will compute three-color mosaics of data from three … Continue reading →

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