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Hubble Pillars of Creation - wjm version

Hubble Pillars of Creation - wjm version

The Pillars of Creation image is one that helped define the wonders that were being photographed with the Hubble space telescope. The recently announced Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA) has made much of the Hubble data available for anyone to use. One of the things that can be done with it is the creation of personal versions of Hubble images from the black and white original fits format data. I used three black and white fits images taken with 502, 656, and 673 nm narrow band filters to create the image shown here.
Thanks to Robert Gendler for pointing out the HLA in the July 2012 Sky and Telescope magazine.