Picturing the Cosmos: Hubble Space Telescope Images and the Astronomical Sublime

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267 INDEX ACS (Advanced Camera for Surveys), 21, 24, 32, 60, 109, 111, 145, 236–37n3, 239n46, 247n46 Adams, Ansel, 55, 130, 156, 225, 246n3; Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California, 55–56; Monolith, the Face of Half-Dome, Yosemite National Park, 55 Advanced Camera for Surveys. See ACS aesthetics: and astronomy, 8–9, 73–74, 163, 176, 197; and depictions of the American West, 45, 182, 188; and Hubble Heritage Project, 7, 17, 50–54, 114–17, 121, 124–25, 166, 167–70; and Hubble images, 4, 6, 7, 15, 16, 28, 50, 61, 227; in image processing, 136, 146, 149, 156, 164; mod-ernist, 176; and numeric data, 73; and science, 6, 10, 17, 100, 105, 108–9, 114, 138. See also agreeable, the; beautiful, the; Burke, Edmund; Kant, Immanuel; pretty pictures; sublime, the agreeable, the, 72–73, 89 ambivalence: toward astronomical images, 16, 72, 74, 90, 99, 109, 111, 125; and digital imaging, 133, 135; about role of senses in gaining knowledge, 84; toward scientific images, 11, 70–71, 187–89; and technologies that enhance senses, 81, 84 American West: and Ansel Adams, 55–56; and the frontier, 181, 207–8, 210–11; and Hollywood westerns, 56–57; and nineteenthcentury American painters and photographers , 16, 28, 33–37, 40–41, 43, 45–46, 183–95; relationship of Hubble images to, 5, 10, 15, 17, 28–46, 175, 181; and science fiction, 57–59; scientific exploration of, 17, 28, 182–96, 251n8; as site for astronomical observatories, 17, 197–204; and space art, 57; and the sublime, 29; symbolic significance of, 175, 181, 196–97, 207–10 Andromeda Galaxy, 78–79, 88, 90 Apollo, 75, 112, 214, 254n75 Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), 248n30 astrometry, 142 astronomers: and Ansel Adams, 55; adoption of digital detectors, 131–33; and aesthetics, 4, 11, 54, 71–73, 136; attitudes toward images, 6, 16, 71, 74, 90, 186; and Cepheid variables , 78; and data, 86–87, 91, 247n26; and digital image processing, 5, 15, 17, 37–38, 103, 111, 127–29, 133, 137–66, 176; efforts to improve seeing, 19, 24; and guaranteed observing time, 245n68; and history of Hubble Space Telescope, 84, 91, 94, 96–97, 241n20; and Hubble Deep Field, 217, 268 INDEX 246n87; and Hubble Heritage Project, 114, 115, 121, 125; and Hubble images, 7, 59, 91, 185, 208; and mountaintop observatories, 17, 181, 199–207; nostalgia for older observing practices, 205–7; and photography, 89; relationship to sight and vision, 71; and remote observing, 197, 205–7; and role of images in research, 9, 10; and science fiction, 55; and STScI press office, 121; translating data into images, 135, 138, 173; use of different forms of visual representation, 131 AURA. See Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Autumn in the Sierras (Bierstadt), 184, 251n11 Bahcall, John, 93, 241n20 Bann, Stephen, 216–17 Barnard’s Merope Nebula, 164–65 Batchelor, David, 153 Baum, William, 96, 242n31 Beaman, E. O., 183 beautiful, the, 46, 48–49 Beckwith, Steven, 61–62, 116, 186 Benjamin, Walter, 129, 171–73, 191 Bierstadt, Albert, 5, 28, 55, 66, 197, 204; Autumn in the Sierras, 184, 251n11; and Centennial Exhibition, 195; and explo-ration of American West, 181, 183–84, 207; formal relationship of paintings to Hubble images, 16, 20, 40–41, 51, 54, 166–67; and realism, 189–91; A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie, 40–41, 45–46, 66, 189–90, 193, 207 Blouke, Morley, 132 Bond, Howard, 196, 206, 215; and Hubble Heritage Project, 111–13, 115, 160, 246n89; on relationship of Hubble images to Caspar David Friedrich, 51, 54 Bonestell, Chesley, 55, 57–58, 76, 112; Saturn as Seen from Titan, 57–58 Bright, Deborah, 181, 253n57 Bubble Nebula, 116, 119, 136 Buechner, Jack, 94 Bukatman, Scott, 58 Burke, Edmund: Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, 46–48; and the sublime, 5, 16, 20, 46–48 Bush, Vannevar: Science, the Endless Frontier, 212–13, 215 Butterfly Nebula, 109, 110–11 California Institute of Technology (Caltech), 85–87 Carina Nebula, 110, 217–18, 220–24 CCDs (charge-coupled devices), 85–88, 103, 132–33, 140, 169 Centennial Exhibition, 184, 194–96 Cepheid variable stars, 78 Chaisson, Eric, 90–91, 243n42 Chandra X-ray Observatory, 132 charge-coupled devices. See CCDs Chasm of the Colorado, The (Moran), 43, 45, 184, 190–93, 195 Christian, Carol: and Hubble Heritage Project, 112, 115, 121, 246n89 Clark, Constance, 9–10 Clearing...