Raw Data - Where Can I Get It?

[KenMiller]

I never realized how cloudy most nights are until I started acquiring telescopes

I'd like to hone my image processing skills but have a definitive lack of raw data.

Is there anywhere that raw image data is available?

[BT Technologies]

C'mon Ken.. Don't you have a bunch of dark frames that you can practice with??

Couldn't resist!!!

Originally Posted by KenMiller

I never realized how cloudy most nights are until I started acquiring telescopes

I'd like to hone my image processing skills but have a definitive lack of raw data.

Is there anywhere that raw image data is available?

[KenMiller]

While you said that in jest, I have indeed taken hours of darks and actually practiced combining - mean, average, average excluding high and low, etc.

In fairness, part of that time was becoming familiar with the image acquisition software and part just to poke around and see what a "dark" image looked like up close.

[njnightsky]

Well if you want fits data you can play here

http://www.spacetelescope.org/projec...eagledata.html

and here

http://archive.eso.org/dss/dss

[KenMiller]

Very COOL! Thanks a bunch!!!

[budguinn]

Hi Ken,

go to Jim Misti's site:

http://www.mistisoftware.com/astronomy/

scroll about half way down and you'll see the set of unprocessed images that he has available. Lots of guys have been playing with these...it think there is a link to see their versions.

bud

[KenMiller]

Also great. Thanks Bud!

[njnightsky]

Originally Posted by KenMiller

Very COOL! Thanks a bunch!!!

Your welcome Ken

[BT Technologies]

Ken, how is your processing coming along with the raw data? Have you had a chance to do anything with it yet?

BTW, which program did you chose to go with for processing?

Originally Posted by KenMiller

Also great. Thanks Bud!

[KenMiller]

What I was really interested in doing was processing all of the subframes (lights, darks, flats). Each of the links provided here seem to have already done that - leaving only the RGBL processing to be done.

So, I'm still looking for raw data.