AVAO wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 9:15 pm
Spif wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 5:52 pm
What really struck me about this image is
how MANY foreground stars there are. Even the dim dots are solar systems (though some of those could be noise). Just about every other pixel is a system, it seems.
Great work!
"The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are satellite galaxies of the Milky Way Galaxy. The parallax data in the Gaia EDR3 dataset allows the foreground stars to be removed for clarity. Color saturation has ben enhanced 8x to show relative temperature differences between the stars using a white balance temperature of 4550K. This image was rendered by bsrender (
https://github.com/kevinloch/bsrender) using the star records from the Gaia EDR3 dataset (
https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/earlydr3). The original 16k rendering has been scaled down to 8k."
LMC and SMC rendered from Gaia EDR3 data with foreground stars removed:

in biggg:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... -s1-s8.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellani ... -s1-s8.png
Fantastic and amazing image from Gaia data by bsrender, AVAO!

Do look at the incredible detail in the full size of it!
The only problem with Gaia images is that all stars are represented by a tiny dot of a fixed size. This means that, according to Gaia, Alpha, Beta and Proxima Centauri are all represented by a dot of the same size:
Alpha Centauri compared with the Sun Deviant Art.png
From left to right: Alpha Centauri, the Sun, Beta Centauri and Proxima Centauri
So to Gaia, all stars are equal! But this causes problems when you are trying to find a bright open cluster in a Gaia image. Really, where is the Tarantula Nebula and super-bright Tarantula cluster R 136a in the image generated from Gaia data?
LMC from Gaia data detail by bsrender.png
Where is the Tarantula?
Ann
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