by chadwick2424 » Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:45 pm
Hi, I am work in engineering and love the APOD. But I had a thought the other day. 3D photos can be created to be used with red/blue glasses,etc. They work by taking 2 photos slightly appart in distance and then processing them to appear with the red/blue imagery. As you know it's quite interesting. A good example is the Sept 15, 2007 APOD image of the day, "Iapetus: 3D Equatorial Ridge"
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070915.html
My suggestion is this. Why don't some astronomers and/or the people in charge of running the hubble space telescope take two identical photos of the Orion nebula and other nearby nebulas and galaxies this way. What we would need to do is take a photo when the earth is farthest to the left in its orbit in-line with the nebula, then wait six months later and take another photo. The two photos will have been taken as far apart as possible, creating the needed distance to allow the perspective needed to create 3D photos of the nebulas and maybe even the closest galaxies. I think doing this would introduce an exciting new chapter in astronomy since we would be able to distinguish 3 dimension structures in the nebulas and galaxies.
I have created a diagram of how it would work, and I can email it to anyone that asks for it.
Let me know what you think, Thanks Chad
Hi, I am work in engineering and love the APOD. But I had a thought the other day. 3D photos can be created to be used with red/blue glasses,etc. They work by taking 2 photos slightly appart in distance and then processing them to appear with the red/blue imagery. As you know it's quite interesting. A good example is the Sept 15, 2007 APOD image of the day, "Iapetus: 3D Equatorial Ridge" [url]http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap070915.html[/url]
My suggestion is this. Why don't some astronomers and/or the people in charge of running the hubble space telescope take two identical photos of the Orion nebula and other nearby nebulas and galaxies this way. What we would need to do is take a photo when the earth is farthest to the left in its orbit in-line with the nebula, then wait six months later and take another photo. The two photos will have been taken as far apart as possible, creating the needed distance to allow the perspective needed to create 3D photos of the nebulas and maybe even the closest galaxies. I think doing this would introduce an exciting new chapter in astronomy since we would be able to distinguish 3 dimension structures in the nebulas and galaxies.
I have created a diagram of how it would work, and I can email it to anyone that asks for it.
Let me know what you think, Thanks Chad