Images from the Astronomy Image-making Hands-On Session at the University of Western Ontario 2009

These are thumbnail explorations of colour pallettes, orientations and croppings created by the attendees of visualization workshops in London, Ontario Canada. Participants came from the University of Western Ontario and the public. A few attendees brought data downloaded from the web or their own data. However most articipants used black and white jpegs of HST's acquisition of Hodge 301 (NGC 2070) - these were "thumbnail" size for the sake of processing speed. They are shown at the bottom of this page. Note the variety of colour renditions of the same black and white data set.

Image	Team	People and comments.
University of Western Ontario November 27, 2009
	Alyssa Gilbert	My goal was to really bring out the cluster, as well as the nebula. The way I cropped it, I think, works a lot better than when I had it as a square at the workshop - makes it a bit more balanced.
	Jan Cami Sarah Gallagher	Our goal was to make an image accentuating the nebular structure, with some cold-warm contrast (there's certainly front-back contrast in there too, but that wasn't our primary intention). We chose this as our final orientation because there's two diagonals that guide the eye first to the complex filamentary structure and then the cluster.
	Stephanie Keating Horace Shiu	Description of goals: To make an attractive colour image of M83, with colours set according to wavelength (longest wavelength is reddest, shortest is bluest, H-alpha is pink, etc.) I think we accomplished the goals fairly well in the short time we had!

Original Hodge 301 Black and Whites