September 2014NOAO Newsletter

The September 2014 NOAO Newsletter is online and ready to download. This issue includes information pertaining to the 2015A Call for Proposals, which are due September 25, 2014. On the Cover The cover shows an 8 × 9 arcminutes image of a portion of the Milky Way galactic bulge, obtained as part of the Blanco DECam Bulge Survey (BDBS) using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the CTIO Blanco 4-m telescope. In this image, red, green, and blue (RGB) pixels correspond to DECam’s Y, z and i filters, respectively. The inset image shows the 2 × 3 array of monitors at the “observer2” workstation in the Blanco control room. The six chips shown here represent only 10% of the camera’s field of view.

Créditos:

NOIRLab

About the Image

Id:noaoann14006a
Tipo:Artwork
Release date:29 de Agosto de 2014
Related announcements:noaoann14006
Size:1277 x 600 px

Sobre el Objeto

Categoría:Illustrations

Formatos de Imágenes

Large JPEGLarge JPEG
276,2 KB
Screensize JPEGScreensize JPEG
193,0 KB

Zoomable


Fondos de Pantalla

1024x7681024x768
247,8 KB
1280x10241280x1024
334,8 KB
1600x12001600x1200
441,3 KB
1920x12001920x1200
523,3 KB
2048x15362048x1536
1,9 MB