Is there some sort of citizen science we could engage-in with these datasets? When zooming in on Euclid’s view of the Perseus cluster of galaxies I see some very strange stuff :-)
A popular citizen science is writing a classic hacker script with wget/curl to download all of the images and then stack them together. Numerous comets have been found this way as the comet will be the only thing moving once all of the images are aligned. I guess it doesn't have to be a comet, as asteroids and Planet X could be found this way as well. If the dot changes course/speed in your research, it could be Aliens!!!!
The fun thing is that when a group gets scope time, it's typically for a specific purpose so the images are initially studied specifically for that purpose. It's possible there's more treasure in those images beyond the original intent that just needs more time being studied or added to other imagery/collections that come together to reveal something.
So depending on what you might be interested in, you can find all of the images from every scope imaginable of the same object to do some fun stuff, or you could find a time series from one scope that might reveal something.
dylan604|2 years ago
The fun thing is that when a group gets scope time, it's typically for a specific purpose so the images are initially studied specifically for that purpose. It's possible there's more treasure in those images beyond the original intent that just needs more time being studied or added to other imagery/collections that come together to reveal something.
So depending on what you might be interested in, you can find all of the images from every scope imaginable of the same object to do some fun stuff, or you could find a time series from one scope that might reveal something.
SushiHippie|2 years ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38177815
_a_a_a_|2 years ago