Re: Astro images on micro film?

I like the idea of the dissecting microscope. I thought the exhibit idea
might make that "Microcope/Telescope" confusion even worse. But I like the
idea of looking into a microscope and seeing something as big as a galaxy.

I'm passing this info along and it is MUCH appreciated.
Jake

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:25 PM, John R Pierce <pierce@No-Spam> wrote:

> 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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