Hubble Space Telescope (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} hubbletelescope) wrote,@ 2004-04-25 11:49:00 |
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Happy birthday to me...
That's right, as I mentioned a few days ago, today is the 14th anniversary of me being cut loose from Shuttle Discovery, and started my own orbit of the earth, and snapping pictures of space.
And one month later, this image was released by NASA, officially considered the first picture I took. The picture itself doesn't seem that spectacular, but in comparrison to a ground-based observatory (on the left) it's one of the clearest shots astronomers had of the universe. And this was BEFORE I got my nice glasses.
Two days after that image was released, this image made the rounds, showing an even clearer contrast between shots I took, and shots that astronomers were used to.
It's been a heck of a fourteen years. With any luck, I'll have a few more anniversaries.
That's right, as I mentioned a few days ago, today is the 14th anniversary of me being cut loose from Shuttle Discovery, and started my own orbit of the earth, and snapping pictures of space.
And one month later, this image was released by NASA, officially considered the first picture I took. The picture itself doesn't seem that spectacular, but in comparrison to a ground-based observatory (on the left) it's one of the clearest shots astronomers had of the universe. And this was BEFORE I got my nice glasses.
Two days after that image was released, this image made the rounds, showing an even clearer contrast between shots I took, and shots that astronomers were used to.
It's been a heck of a fourteen years. With any luck, I'll have a few more anniversaries.
