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PhD student Amr Hassandemonstrates an 8000 x 8000 pixel volume rendering of a full southern sky HIPASS cube on the CSIRO OptiPortal during the 3D Visualisation Workshop @ ATNF. The giant cube was made by Russell Jurek (ATNF) from the existing set of 387 original southern HIPASS cubes.

HIPASS-3D-Cube

Giant HIPASS cube of the whole southern sky made by Russell Jurek (ATNF) from the existing set of 387 original southern HIPASS cubes. 3D Visualisation by Amr Hassan (Swinburne University of Technology).

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Left: An observation of the galaxy group IC 1459,
using a nine-beam footprint in the shape of a diamond.
The small panels next to the main image show for each
galaxy the HI contours overlaid on a RGB image (left),
and the HI velocity field (right). Credit: CSIRO.