Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean. Shorter, more focused posts specialising in astronomy and data visualisation.
Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Hydrogen Storm over Giza
Only visible to those with superhetrodyne receivers for eyes. Different colours are at different frequencies; changing the center frequency gives animation.
I cheated a lot for this one - field of view for the sky is about twice what it should be. The all-sky data is so low resolution it's not really useable except for very wide-angle shots.
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