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Re: The Hubble Space Telescope and Me (long)
NoelC  I don't know who the heck you really are, but this website is lucky to have you. I've been watching your photos for a while, and then when you posted that full-moon shot a few weeks ago, I think everyone that is on this site heard of you, especially with those 50,000+ hits. 
I have a growing interest in photography, and I've always had an interest in the Universe, and your photos are really amazing. Mind-boggling really, I have very few words to describe what you post, other than simply unbelievable.
If these people don't put you on their team, I'll petition them personally to change their mind. Your posts here are a gift to this site. And that's it, I mean I have nothing left to say. I'm speechless. Have a good one.;)
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Hayward
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Hey Noel, with stuff you have done with a puny little earth bound telescope...(like the moon color shot of late) and that's what you want to do, they would be stupid to not take you on...(unless maybe they feel threatened?) by what you have done with so much less than the Hubble.
And reproduced small here...did you actually get to work on any FULL SIZED/REZ Hubble images?
Edit: And now that I have looked at the links, the second particularly, small looks better than the original x-large image by a long shot.
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qdemn7
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Wow, absolutely awesome. You are a very talented and fortunate man. And your work is spectacular. NGC 5866 is simply incredible.
Hubble has always struck me as a incredible work of science and art. when you think of all the sophisticated motion compensation that has to come in to play for these lengthy shots to be made it's just mind boggling.
What type of computer and software did you use for your work?
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Dr. Noel Carboni Rocket Scientist has a nice ring.
Interesting that with all their resources, the original compilers were so sloppy. They collect mountains of data and then either don't do anything with it or make a slapdash analysis that's 'good enough'. Often, years later someone will re-examine data that was overlooked or not processed and find something extraordinary. I believe some of the outer dwarf planets like Sedna were photographed, but never discovered because the images were never given a thorough examination. I hope your partnership can help do justice to some of these magnificent pictures that were acquired with such great effort and expense.
The hunger for more and more data seems to cross all disciplines and is growing at a very fast rate. When the LHC goes online soon, the data volume will be in terabytes per day. Who's going to to be able to look at that flood of data? I've read that they'll need to network thousands of computers across the web just to get a rough idea of what they're creating.
Maybe this push for more information and the processing power needed to examine it in a reasonable time will benefit us all in the long run. Who knows? There may be semi-sentient programs developed soon that can see patterns and order in what we mere humans only saw as noise.
Congratulations on your many achievements and letting us all see a little clearer.
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freeze
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World Class. |
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n8crwlr
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Fantastic work on the images, I see a super computer in your future for editing new photos. |
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popster
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Amazing stuff! |
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Tommyastro
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Spectacular!!! Breath taking! Bravo! Encore!!!
Tom |
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captokita
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Noel you've done it AGAIN!!!! Those pictures are AMAZING!!!! The 2nd is my wallpaper now, thanks! |
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rog
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The bottom one is quite spectacular. Looks like you might be acquiring a night job. |
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Coma
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| said by rog :Looks like you might be acquiring a night job.
Perfect time for star gazing.
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NoelC
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Thank you all!
I'm happy to report I have received an initial offer to work with the folks who make the images on this page: »www.spacetelescope.org/images/index.html
We're working out the details. 
Regarding my computer, I already have a good one - a Dell Precision 470 workstation with dual processors and 4 GB of RAM. I wouldn't be able to do the things I do to these huge images without it.
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I don't think it was more than two weeks ago when I made a comment in your gallery that you would be perfect for just such a team of image scientists! Congrats Noel...very well deserved!!
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MLOK5
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Congratulations, too! I agree with overhill - definitely well-deserved. Now we can all say that we knew you way back when....!
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JRSlater8
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Congratulations Noel. Keep brining us the stars!
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Matt
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Damn that Lenticular Galaxy in Draco is a gorgeous photograph.
Thanks for the beautiful new wallpaper. |
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aloneworld
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Are they considering hiring you? Because I think you'd be worth every penny they would spend on you.
BTW how do you differenciate a hot spot from a sun? =D |
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NoelC
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1 edit | Thanks again.
said by aloneworld :Are they considering hiring you? BTW how do you differenciate a hot spot from a sun? =D That's a very good question!
Here's how: Hubble images are acquired in black and white (luminance measurements only), and color images are created by combining luminance exposures taken through different colored (e.g., red, green, blue) filters. The "stuck" hot pixels that persist from frame to frame are already removed from the images by the Hubble "calibration" software, so... If I find a bright green pixel and no evidence of it in the blue or red channel, it's very likely not a real object. Real objects usually have SOME presence in two or all three channels. Also, good as it is, the Hubble does not focus even the very sharpest stars onto one pixel; they're usually spread across at least 2 or 3.
My understanding is that many of the intermittent hot pixels are the result of cosmic rays impacting the imager. We have all this wonderful atmosphere protecting us down here on the Earth's surface from most of that.
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rcroning
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Great work Noel and Congratulations!!! I hope you do get appointed to the Hubble team. You will be an asset to them and we all get to say...."Noel Carboni? sure I know him!!" |
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Wasnt Me
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Wow! Just Wow! That image of the galaxy with the distant galaxies in the background is simply amazing. Thanks for posting these Noel. To think of how many such images are still unprocessed... is mind boggling to say the least! |
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