Image Recognition and Honors
Oct 28, 2021: My Images are being used in a Theater Production!
Our local Blackfriar Theater Group is putting on a production of “Silent Sky”, This is the story of Henrietta Leavitt, who began working at the Harvard Observatory in the early 1900s, at a time when women were not allowed to touch a telescope or express an original idea. Instead, she joins a group of women “computers”.
Blackfriars saw the images on my website and asked for permission to use some of those images for their production. I was honored! You can learn more about it HERE. The production is underway was a success, and I understand they had been getting standing ovations. Congratulations Blackfriars.
Every once and while, I get contacted for permission to use my images for one purpose or another. I am honored by these requests and thought it might be nice to have an area of the website where I could document these!
The Production Flyer
The Credit Page of the flyer…
June 2022: My Image of Messier 31 was used as a gift for the Keynote Speaker.
The IEEE Rochester Chapter recently had a Joint Chapters Meeting and a Digital Camera Milestone Ceremony celebrating the invention of the Digital Camera.
The invention of the digital camera is kind of a big deal, as you might appreciate - even more so in that it makes the kind of Astrophotography that I do possible!
That invention was created by Steve Sasson at Eastman Kodak back in 1975. I had the great fortune to work with Steve. Little did he know at the time the impact his invention would have on the world!
As a gift to the Keynote Speaker, I was approached and asked if they could present a framed Print of one of my Astrophotos.
I was happy to oblige.
They chose my most recent version of Messier 31 - The Andromeda Galaxy.
Below is the link to that image on my website:
https://cosgrovescosmos.com/projects/m31-lhargb
And here is the IEEE Newsletter covering this event:
October 2022: The Web DeepSky Society has named my M31 image as their “Picture of the Month.”
I was recently contacted by the webmaster for the Webb Deepsky Society and asked if they could use my Image of M31 on their website as their “Picture of the Month.” The Webb Society promotes visual observation of deepsky objects and variable star observation. I was honored to be asked and, of course, was happy for this to occur! Thank you, Webb Deepsky Society!
https://www.webbdeepsky.com/picture-of-the-month/archive/2022/10
The M31 Image PRoject post can be seen HERE.