> FOR RELEASE: July 8, 2004
>
> NEWS NUGGET NO.: STScI-NN040708
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> PROCESS ASTRONOMICAL IMAGES ON YOUR HOME COMPUTER JUST LIKE THE EXPERTS
>
> Anyone with a desktop computer running Adobe® Photoshop® or Adobe
> Photoshop Elements software can try their hand at crafting astronomical
> images as beautiful as Hubble Space Telescope's. A free software plug-in
> being released today for Photoshop makes the treasure of archival
> astronomical images and spectra from Hubble Space Telescope, NASA's
> Spitzer Space Telescope, The European Southern Observatory's Very Large
> Telescope, the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-Ray Observatory and
> many other famous telescopes accessible to home astronomy enthusiasts.
>
> Imaging scientists at NASA, The European Space Agency and the European
> Southern Observatory developed the free software, called the Photoshop
> FITS Liberator. The term FITS stands for File Image Transfer Software.
> This single file format archives nearly all images of stars, nebulae and
> galaxies produced by major telescopes around the world. Until now this
> file format has been accessible to very few people other than the
> scientists themselves using highly specialized image processing tools.
>
> The ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS Liberator will be released today and is
> freely available for download from:
> http://www.spacetelescope.org/projects/fits_liberator
>
> This is an example created using the ESA/ESO/NASA Photoshop FITS
> Liberator. The image of a portion of the ring galaxy AM0644-741 was made
> using Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. Top: original black and
> white images obtained through filters isolating red, green and blue
> light. Middle: the separate images reassigned the primary colors red,
> green and blue. Bottom: the combined full color image.
>
> Image credit: NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
>
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> http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/nuggets/1089291600
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