Re: Astro images on micro film?

From: Peter Santangeli ^lt;peter_at_No-Spam>
Date: Thu Jun 11 2009 - 16:10:16 PDT

What you need is a device that many many years ago I used to write software for called a film recorder.

Way back in the days before powerpoint, if you did a presentation, you'd use a kodak carosel, and have your 'slides' as actual slides! The device that you'd use to record the graphics from your computer onto the slides is called a film recorder. It would slowly scan the image out onto a very high res b&w CRT. A 35mm SLR was typically bolted into place to film this image slowly being formed (in r, g, b order, usually using filters). It took a couple of minutes per slide, but they were actually quite staggering resolution - the highest res ones I wrote drivers for were Genigraphics units that could do 16kX16k pixels.

You could expose the galaxies onto 35mm film this way, then stick that in the microscope.

Are there still any slide presentation bureau's out there? Probably not.

Pete

Jake Burkart wrote:

So my great boss decides we need to setup an exhibit here at NASA where kids can look through a microscope and see astro images.  I guess it'll get their minds churning about macro and micro.  Anyway, we've discovered that viewmaster slides are way too big for even the cheapest of microscopes.  Anybody got any ideas of how to shrink a galaxy to less than a centimeter?

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