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Resources for museums, planetariums, broadcast producers and other special
venues.
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- Use the resources
section of the Chandra website to view available animations. Animations
are organized into categories:
Our podcasts are also available in broadcast resolution by request.
- Contact:
April Hobart 617-496-7048, ahobart@cfa.harvard.edu
Kim Kowal Arcand 617-496-7860, kkowal@cfa.harvard.edu
- Please refer to each animation by its web link, number on page
and title as it's given on the web page.
Example:
http://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/animations/blackholes.html
#1 "Best of Chandra Images: Black Holes, Jets & Quasars" to
request the following
animation
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Animation
of X-ray Flares from a "Young Sun"
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This animation shows how X-ray flares from a young
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- Please specify format required, project
deadline & intended use.
- Please include your contact name, address and phone number (Phone
numbers are needed to fed-ex tapes)
- Please give us at least one week to fill the request.
- We like to collect copies of programs using our materials. If
at all possible, when your project is complete, please send us
a copy on DVD or tape.
Materials can be sent to:
April Hobart
Chandra X-ray Center
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
60 Garden St, MS 34
Cambridge, MA 02138
Animations are free of charge, but we do ask that you obtain our permission
for usage and give proper credit. All animations are credited on our
web site, and if we send a tape, each clip is preceded by a slate
giving proper credit information.
If you have further questions on permissions and usage, please contact:
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Animations can be sent in any of the following formats:
- Broadcast-quality video on Beta SP tape, NTSC at 720 x 486
- Uncompressed quicktime or avi, 720 x 486, sent on CD or DVD
(file may be zipped to fit)
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Animation
of Black Hole with Accretion Disk and Torus
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This artist's conception shows
a black hole system in each of its constituent parts
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- Compressed quicktime or mpeg files in various file sizes and
aspect ratios. The following standard formats are found in most
cases on our website and can be downloaded directly by the requester:
Large QT:
720 x 480, ~10-50MB
Small QT: 360 x 240, ~3-9 MB
Large mpeg: 720 x 480, ~5-15 MB
Small mpeg: 360 x 240, ~2-8 MB
Other sizes can be custom-built and either posted for download
or sent on CD
- HDTV: please allow extra time for the re-rendering of frames
at HD size. Frame sequences can be sent if firewire drive is provided
by requester. Uncompressed quicktime movies at HD resolution can
also be sent via DVD.
- Video sequences can also be telestreamed as NTSC video if requester
has a Clipmail Pro.
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Animation
of Titan's Transit of the Crab Nebula
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| This animation illustrates how Titan, one of Saturn's
moons, cast an X-ray "shadow" on Chandra's
detector as Titan passed between the Crab Nebula and
Chandra. |
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- All of our released Chandra images are available for
downloading. Please browse the photo album by category
or date.
- The images are available in various formats, including JPEG,
full-resolution TIFF and postscript (PS). The Chandra TIFF files
posted on our site are the highest resolution images available.
For additional information on Chandra data and resolution issues
please contact Kim
Arcand.
- We also have an archive of illustrations relating to release/science
concepts. Please visit the illustrations
section to view the complete gallery.
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- Posters, postcards, bookmarks, lithos, and a coloring
book are available to educators and amateur organizations
by request.
- An interactive tour of Chandra's X-ray Milky Way is also available
by request through the web site.
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