Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean. Shorter, more focused posts specialising in astronomy and data visualisation.

Thursday, 17 September 2015

Mopra data in FRELLED


For those of you supporting / interested in supporting the Mopra telescope on Kickstarter, here's a quick flythrough of one of their data cubes. About 10% of the full survey data if I'm not mistaken.
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