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Subject:	Re: More Artwork
Newsgroups:	lugnet.space
Date:	Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:05:48 GMT
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"Daniel Jassim" <danieljassim@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:H2KF41.9H1@lugnet.com... > Greetings! After some more tinkering around with Photoshop, I came up with • a > pretty neat galaxy: > > http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=244571 > > Just curious: For those of you with Photoshop, would anyone be interested • in > any of my "recipes" for the space images I've produced so far? If so, I'll > try to note the steps as I go along when I'm creating an image and post • them > here with link to the pic. I'm still learning of course and any • suggestions > for improvement are always welcome! :) Looks good Dan, one thing though: spiral galaxies don't occur with a single spiral arm. In fact, to an astronomy geek like me it kinda didn't look that much like a galaxy... :-( Galaxies either have two symmetrically opposed arms: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0104/m51_hst_big.jpg Or have multiple broken-up spiral arms: http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-1998/phot-37d-98-preview.jpg Or have no significant spiral arms (also called 'flocculent spiral'): http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0006/m63_subaru_big.jpg Some good reference material: http://www.eso.org/outreach/info-events/ut1fl/astroim-galaxy-spiral.html http://heritage.stsci.edu/gallery/galindex.html Cheers, Paul

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		Re: More Artwork
(...) Hm, actually it does have two arms. It's just that one is a bit bigger and brighter than the other. Look on the opposite side of the 'big' arm. (...) <snipped> (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.space)

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		More Artwork
Greetings! After some more tinkering around with Photoshop, I came up with a pretty neat galaxy: (URL) curious: For those of you with Photoshop, would anyone be interested in any of my "recipes" for the space images I've produced so far? If so, I'll (...) (22 years ago, 17-Sep-02, to lugnet.space)

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