Re: Astro images on micro film?

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?

see fi you can find a 'dissecting microscope', such as are used for bugs
and such... those tend to be very low power, and should be able to
cover a 1cm image just fine.... a film recorder should be able to
create such a beast on a 35mm slide, or have a photo lab 'print' a high
res digital image onto a 35mm ektachrome 100 slide (one 35mm slide is
24x... a good film recorder is 2000 or 3000 lines per inch, which is
about 800 lines/mm

here, 20X/40x dissecting scope,
http://scientificsonline.com/product.asp?pn=3111400&cm_mmc=Mercent-_-Google-_-NULL-_-3111400&mr:trackingCode=D0E7340A-201B-DE11-8130-000423C27502&mr:referralID=NA&bhcd2=1244769495

heck, at 20X, you could probably print a hubble type picture directly to
a 35mm slide and see most of it, I think thats a 0.8" FOV.

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