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POLARIZATION ANALYSIS
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Dramatic change
of the M1 nebula aspect for different angles of the polaroid analyseur: 0°,
45°, 90° and 135°. 60-cm telescope of Pic du Midi Observatory. The
polarization is here near 30%
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Polarization field
of M1 superimposed on a grey image (left) and an isophotal image (right). Polarization
images processed with the command POLAR of Iris. The map is generated with the command
POLAR_CARTO
and it is simply added to a grey scale image or an isophotal image (ADD command)
Polarization field of the
comet Hyakutake (March 03, 1996). Image obtained with a 5-inch Takahashi refractor
in the R-band. Note that the polarization plane is oriented perpendicular to
the Sun direction. The mean degree of polarization is of 6%. It is easy to obtain
an image of this type through a Circular Polarization filter available in all
photographic shop.
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Polarization of the Moon. Left: an albedo image at the full moon. Right: the polarization map in false color at the same moment (the degree of polarization is here between 1.0 and 3.6%).
