• TESS pix

    From R Kym Horsell@kym@sdf.org to alt.astronomy on Thu Sep 3 01:01:29 2026
    From Newsgroup: alt.astronomy

    I see people visiting my TESS page at <kym.massbus.org/TESS/PANORAMA>.

    But no-one has yet twigged you can click on the thumbnails
    at the top for the 16 different cameras/ccds and get a 1/2 size
    (1k x 1k 16b pix) image of the same shot maybe with a bit better processing.

    If you're looking for full-color artistically retouched images of course you've come to the wrong 'scope.

    At the bottom of many pages the AI's have dredged up old Palomar
    shots of approx the same location in the 1950s and 1970s for comparison.

    There is no comparison. ;)

    For some pages there are movies you are meant to carry away, play or
    pull to pieces for indiv frames but not play and play and play
    and play 100 times over the next 60s (thankyou:).

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