Two trillion pixels
More Comets WISE
March 15, 2010Halfway Around
April 10, 2010
WISE has now observed the Galactic Center and is scanning into small positive longitudes. All of the frames near the Galactic Center have such a high density of objects that the automated astrometry pipeline failed, but the raw images show good image quality with at most a few percent of the pixels saturated. With last night’s deliveries WISE crossed over 500,000 framesets and has covered 40% of the sky.
nwright
Ned Wright, 65 years old, is a professor at UCLA. He did far-infrared observations using a 102-cm balloon-borne telescope for his PhD thesis, and has since observed with the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, and the space-based COBE, WMAP, Spitzer and WISE missions.
2 Comments
Today meet 100 days in space.
Hope to WISE , continue smoothly and that consumption of hydrogen coolant is lower than expected, so you have more time obtaining data.
happy day for all team.
Rafael.
Ned
When WISE fulfils its mission and begin to heat up, the mission could be extended. Gradually sloping the WISE axis up to 30 degrees to the interior of the orbit of the Earth to see areas of Lagarange L4 and L5. Perhaps even achieve discover some Trojan asteroids or some NEOS more.
At a distance of 1 AU, Sun much heated them and asteroids might even appear above the heat noise in the images.
Solar panels would even have 86 per cent of its energy, but will have to verify how much sunlight enters the telescope tube and if the antenna can maintain communication with Earth
RafaelG