Open source deep sky images using perl

By StrayTaoist from Cambridge.pm
Date: Saturday, 30 November 2013 09:30
Duration: 20 minutes
Target audience: Any
Language: English
Tags: astronomy imaging

We've all seen the pretty pictures from Hubble and its siblings, but did you know that you can get access to the raw FITS (to be explained in talk) data from many, many space telescopes?

And did you know with a little bit of perl you can create mosaics of open clusters, nebulae, binary systems, galaxies and more?

You didn't? Let me tell you how...