{"id":11741,"date":"2011-01-07T01:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11741"},"modified":"2013-12-15T21:27:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T07:27:46","slug":"postcard-from-the-summit-ir-irtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11741","title":{"rendered":"Postcard from the Summit &#8211; IR IRTF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A somewhat different picture of the <a href=\"http:\/\/irtfweb.ifa.hawaii.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA Infrared Telescope Facility<\/a>.  Appropriately enough this image of an IR telescope was taken with an IR camera by <a href=\"http:\/\/mdevenot.smugmug.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Devenot<\/a>, a fellow engineer and photographer in the Keck Operations Department.<\/p>\n<p>Since this is a thermal infrared image, the colors map directly to temperature.  In this image the warm asphalt of the road glows bright yellow and the cold patches of snow a cool aqua. Note how well the telescope building and dome are designed, emitting very little infrared, a good feature for an infrared telescope.<\/p>\n<p>The IR camera in question is fairly low resolution, a mere 256&#215;256 pixels, fairly typical in handheld IR cameras.  Mark found a way to make an impressive image even with the low pixel count by using some of the artistic filters in Photoshop to process the image.  I saw the image and had to share it with my DarkerView readers&#8230;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11742\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DevenotIRIRTF.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DevenotIRIRTF-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"IR IRTF\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11742\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DevenotIRIRTF-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/DevenotIRIRTF.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NASA IRTF in an in a thermal infrared image taken with a FLIR PM250 camera, with artist effects added in photoshop, image by Mark Devenot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A somewhat different picture of the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. Appropriately enough this image of an IR telescope was taken with an IR camera by Mark Devenot, a fellow engineer and photographer in the Keck Operations Department. Since this is a thermal infrared image, the colors map directly to temperature. In this image the warm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=11741\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Postcard from the Summit &#8211; IR IRTF&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11741"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11744,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11741\/revisions\/11744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}