Putting it all Together

You have investigated how to color balance and chromatically order an image to communicate scientific information. Using the color filter tools, you have:

Identified the hottest and coolest stars in a star cluster (see page 12)
Located star forming regions in a spiral galaxy (see page 14)
Detected far away galaxies (see page 16)

Next you will create a new color image and investigate a scientific question of your choosing.

Questions

Which type of object would you like to investigate?

The Antennae Galaxies are a pair of distorted colliding spiral galaxies about 70 million light-years away, in the constellation of Corvus (The Crow). Credit: Radio: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) and visible light: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

Think about a question that you want to answer about your object. You may choose a question from the list below or develop your own question:

Which are the hottest and coolest stars in a cluster?
Where are the star forming regions in a galaxy?
Which is a very far away galaxy?

Questions

What question do you want to answer about your object?
What filters will you use for conducting your investigation? Why? (You don’t have to use all six filters.)

Camera Filter Ranges