[Kstars-devel] [PATCH] Show Magellanic Clouds

[Médéric Boquien]

Le Monday 18 August 2008 18:32:49 Jérôme SONRIER, vous avez écrit :
> For SMC, the image I used can be found on this page :
> http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2007/brightburst/
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> I think we can use it : http://www.nrao.edu/imagegallery/image_use.shtml
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> You can find the gimp file that I made that show the contour here :
> http://emor3j.fr.eu.org/dvlpt/kde/kstars/magellanicclouds/contours/smc.xcf
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>
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> For LMC, I used 3 images :
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> http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Dorado_constellation_map.png
> http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/public/AList/Dorado.html
> http://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full/2005/08/aa1074/img62.gif
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> I don't know how they are licensed.
>
> You can find the gimp file that I made that show the contour here :
> http://emor3j.fr.eu.org/dvlpt/kde/kstars/magellanicclouds/contours/lmc.xcf

One possibility would be to use a FITS image, smooth it and get contours with 
ds9. We would directly have the coordinates of the isophote. Ideally the 
surface brightness threshold would be the same as for the milky way.
Do you know any free, calibrated, let's say V band image of the LMC and the 
SMC Jason?

Regards,

Médéric