Stereo astro

[cjsmith]

I don't know why Rob didn't give a shout out about these, but I'll do it: lovely astronomy stereo images.

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[quasigeostrophy.livejournal.com]

I'm no good with stereo images. Most of the reason I wear glasses is for a convergence problem. Can't do those "magic eye" puzzle images w/o getting a headache, either.

The pics in and of themselves are cool, though.

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I suspect some of my ability to do stereo images comes from a time in high school when the lens fell out of one side of my glasses and I didn't get new/fixed ones for about a month. I was able to -- had to learn to -- disentangle the focus of my eyes and the convergence of my eyes, two things most of us don't really disentangle after we learn to track objects properly in early childhood.

Anyway, cool concept, nifty pics. :-)

[eichin.livejournal.com]

I learned off of some NASA publication when I was in grade school (one of the moon landers had a stereo camera.)

These are visually stunning - but note that they're "art made from astronomy", rather than long-baseline stereo images. (Not intended as a criticism, merely a categorization...)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh absolutely; clarifying that is good. I kind of wished for long-baseline stereo images, or at least "this is all derived from data of which we are very confident", but ya can't have everything and these are quite nifty as is.