{"id":11051,"date":"2006-02-04T10:29:47","date_gmt":"2006-02-04T10:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/02\/photoshop-rocket-scientists.html"},"modified":"2006-02-04T10:29:47","modified_gmt":"2006-02-04T10:29:47","slug":"photoshop_rocket_scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/04\/photoshop_rocket_scientists\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop &amp; Rocket Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News of astronauts <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/story?id=1578085\">firing an empty space suit into orbit<\/a> (seems like such a dude thing to do, doesn&#8217;t it?  &#8220;Heh heh&#8211;when it hits the atmosphere it&#8217;ll blow up <i>real good<\/i>, heh heh&#8221;) got me thinking about Photoshop&#8217;s role in space imaging.<br \/>\nData captured by the Hubble Space Telescope &amp; other high-powered telescopes are stored in the <a href=\"http:\/\/fits.gsfc.nasa.gov\/\" \/>FITS<\/a> format, as packets that need to be re-assembled for use on computers.  To make the public-domain data widely available (beyond the 900 or so pro astronomers in the world), a team from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eso.org\/\" \/>European Southern Observatory<\/a>, ESA, and NASA created the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacetelescope.org\/projects\/fits_liberator\/index.html\">FITS Liberator<\/a> plug-in for Photoshop.  NASA&#8217;s Hubble Source features an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/hubblesource.stsci.edu\/services\/articles\/2005-02-10\/\" \/>creating your own color Hubble images<\/a> using the tools together.  As of version 1.6.05 FITS Liberator had some 50,000 users, and version 2.0 (released in August) takes advantage of new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HDRI\">32-bit HDR<\/a> imaging support in Photoshop CS2.<br \/>\nCheck out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacetelescope.org\/images\/archive\/bestof\/\" \/>image gallery<\/a>, and <a href=\"mailto:jnack@adobe.com,ashley@adobe.com\">drop us a line<\/a> if you try out FITS Liberator with Photoshop.  We&#8217;d love to hear your story &amp; see your images.<br \/>\n[More SuitSat links <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2006\/02\/03\/ham_radio_and_space_.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news?hl=en&amp;ned=us&amp;q=suitsat&amp;btnG=Search+News\">here<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News of astronauts firing an empty space suit into orbit (seems like such a dude thing to do, doesn&#8217;t it? &#8220;Heh heh&#8211;when it hits the atmosphere it&#8217;ll blow up real good, heh heh&#8221;) got me thinking about Photoshop&#8217;s role in space imaging. Data captured by the Hubble Space Telescope &amp; other high-powered telescopes are stored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}