Monthly Archives: May 2011

The Expansion Proper Motions of the Planetary Nebula NGC 6302 from HST imaging

Posted on May 30, 2011 by astrocompute

C. Szyszka, A. A. Zijlstra and J. R. Walsh (2011) have used Montage in their study of the expansion proper motions of planetary nebulae. Planetary nebulae expand on time scales of 103–104 yr, and for the closest nebulae, this can be detected within … Continue reading →

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Montage and Cloud Computing

Posted on May 20, 2011 by astrocompute

Montage has been widely used to investigate the science value of cloud computing. The pay-as-you-go purchasing model offered by cloud computing services is of obvious appeal. Why pay good money for computers to sit idle in your computer room? Businesses, … Continue reading →

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On What Platforms Can I Run Montage?

Posted on May 13, 2011 by astrocompute

Montage is written in ANSI-C and has been designed to run on Unix platforms. It has  been thoroughly tested for Linux RedHat versions 7.2 and 8.0, built using gcc v3.2. But to our knowledge, it has been successfully run succesfully … Continue reading →

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Montage at the “Innovations in Data Intensive Astronomy” Workshop

Posted on May 6, 2011 by astrocompute

This week, I attended the “Innovations in Data Intensive Astronomy” Workshop, hosted by NRAO at Green Bank, West Virginia.  The workshop aimed to “.. encourage new ideas for the effective processing, analysis, and interpretation of Tera- to Peta-scale data sets … Continue reading →

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