P3D Re: Now THAT is a good digital

[Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Today's Astronomy Picture of the day:
>
>http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
>
>is a great shot of Spiral Galaxy NGC 253. It was taken with a detector
>that is a mosaic of 8 CCD's with a total of 8192x8192 pixels. It has
>67-Million pixels!!!! =) 
>

I note that on the bright nearby stars there is a vertical "flare" - 
is that light bouncing around in the CCD substrate I wonder? Interesting
that it appears vertical (at least in the picture) with minimal 
horizontal component...

THANKS

                   Bob Wier
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   2:44 PM Thursday, January 21, 1999
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