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Zoltan
G. Levay |
Photo:
Michael DiBari Jr. |
Photo Illustration:
NASA,HUDF, Z. Levay |
Imaging
Group Lead
Office of Public Outreach
levay@stsci.edu
Voice: 410-338-4907
Fax: 410-338-4579
3700 San Martin Drive
Baltimore, Maryland 21218
USA
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Primary
Duties
- Hubble Space
Telescope News
- Develop images and graphics
for use in news releases announcing
HST results, in cooperation with observers.
On the News Team: advise on selection of findings to publicize and how to
present them, coordinate assembly of release content on-line for internal
review (via news in-progress and Basecamp, accessible internally only).
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Imaging
- Produce presentation
images and illustrations from Hubble Space Telescope observations.
- Principal software:
- Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Bridge, Dreamweaver, Acrobat)
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
IRAF/PyRAF/STSDAS, ds9, RSI IDL,
Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)
Apple iWork (Keynote, Pages, Numbers)
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- Principal hardware:
- Macintosh Pro, Mac OS-X
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In
Addition
- Hubble
Heritage
- Member of the Hubble
Heritage Team, whose mission is to find and present the most beautiful images
from the Hubble Space Telescope.
- Web development
- Provide on-line previews
of materials for press release in progress.
- Produce web-ready graphics
for permanent news sites.
- Design news and other
web documents.
- Principal software:
Adobe Dreamweaver
Presentation
Resources
- Various images, illustrations,
text, etc. related to HST and STScI, useful for presentation.
- Brief
story of my work (or more formally)
Publications
Links
- Hubble News and Images
- Bringing important Hubble science results to the media and the public.
- Hubble Heritage
- Bringing the most visually appealing Hubble images to the public.
- Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
- Center of science operations for the Hubble Space Telescope and my place of
employment.
- Office of Public Outreach (OPO)
- My department within STScI, includes news,
formal education
and informal science
and online outreach
among other things.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA, Inc.)
- My employer, a not-for-profit university consortium that operates the Space
Telescope Science Institute and other observatories.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- Funds, operates and maintains the Hubble Space Telescope spacecraft and
observatory. Human spaceflight, space science, among many of other activities.
- Selected Hubble images and science results
- Biggest images
(highest resolution)
- Very small selection of prettiest pictures
- Most significant science
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- Presentation
Resources
- Various images, illustrations,
text, etc. related to HST and STScI, useful for presentation
- Indiana University Astronomy Department
- My undergraduate alma mater (BS Astrophysics 1975).
Producing
color images
Descriptions
and references
Creating Hubble's Technicolor Universe (PDF)
Article in Sky & Telescope magazine (Copyright 2002, Sky Publishing Corp.), made available by permission of the publisher.
Making
HST Pictures: Examples and Illustrations
Steps in Producing Color
HST Pictures
Step-by-step description of producing color images.
More detailed explanation using Photoshop (PDF).
Behind
the Pictures
Popular-level description (web pages) of how the pictures are made.
Is
that what they really look like?
A slightly more technical description
of how the pictures are made.
Why
Reality is a Gray Area in Astronomy
Article about color in astronomy
at space.com
Coloring
the Universe
Part of a report on Hubble
and Webb Telescopes from the Online
NewsHour
Personal
Interests
Photography (digital, mostly): the outdoors, color, light, abstraction
Photo blog, galleries
Flickr
Outdoors: hiking,
canoeing, camping, conservation
Computers and
just about anything technical, electronic, or mechanical
Woodworking
November 6, 2009
39°
19' 57" N. Lat.
76° 37' 23" W. Lon.
