My ideas about making human-viewable images out of scientific data in a quasi-reversible way started a big discussion on the Astrometry.net internal email lists. It is not possible to make human-viewable images that have the full dynamic range of a typical astronomical image and look good. In most cases you can't do either, but you can essentially never do both. So I have to either go with insane ugliness or else bad irreversibility. Or else we just punt on Flickr and Picasaweb and move to archives that can take FITS files like MAST.
On the way to Austin, TX for the AAS meeting I completed my planning for my FITS to PNG converter. Now I just have to find all the open-source Python libraries I need.
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