My only research today (Fete de la Musique here in Europe) was some thought and a conversation with Roweis about scaling up our astrometry.net interface to an industrial scale, possibly with some of the existing image management web services already in place at Google. We already have a way to use Flickr, which is being worked out by Stumm. The challenge is to make this all work with a user who has FITS or RAW files or equivalents, but we think there are some straightforward solutions.
What we really need is something like google-earth. One program where we can link all the information that is spread in all different databases.
ReplyDeleteFor example, explore the whole sky via DSS, 2MASS, SDSS, etc. Search, if for a particular object or region, are databases or archive data, download and visualize them on the screen, correct the astrometry for downloaded images. Load plug-ins to prepare observations, performe some basics analysis, etc.
Congratulations for astronometry.net, I'm very eager to probe it. Because, astrometry correction is one of the most tiredsome (if not boring) of all task in image analysis.
Miguel V.
A step more towards "Google-Sky" as my friend Miguel Verdugo (who commented above) use to call this tool!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations!
How funny. I've spent the last few weeks stewing about how to properly implement 'Google-sky'.....
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