... On the morning of November 14, sky gazers from around the world gathered on this little planet to stand in the dark umbral shadow of the Moon. Of course, the Moon cast the shadow.. ... In front of a famous background of stars and galaxies lies some of Earth's more unusual trees. ... Time Lapse: A Total Solar Eclipse . ... The Astronaut Who Captured a Satellite . ... In 1984, high above the Earth's surface, an astronaut captured a satellite. It was the second satellite captured that mission. ...

Most of these images were obtained by Mike Bessell, Michelle Buxton, Hwankyung Sung, Ralph Sutherland and Bob Watson at SSO using a 2Kx2K Site CCD behind a Nikon or Hasselblad lens or directly on the 1m telescope. A few images are from the Hubble Space Telescope. Some of the M42 images were obtained with the KPNO 1m and ESO NTT telescope. One image is a mosaic of IRAS images. ... Details of the CCD imaging program at MSSSO. ... antenna.jpg (53KB) . ... ngc6744.jpg (59KB) . ...

Full Moon 106k gif . Another full Moon 300k jpg . nice Moon image with features labeled html . ... projection of the whole surface (from Clementine images) 330k jpg ; 1200k tiff . ... GOES satellite image of Earth showing Moon in same frame 92k gif . Moon's north pole from Galileo 132k gif . ... Three-filter color image of the Moon (Galileo) 57k jpg . False-color image of the Moon (Galileo) 123k jpg . ... False-color image of the Moon (Galileo) 53k jpg . ... Galileo images . ...

... Another full Moon 300k jpg . Several of my own images including a large full moon mosaic and some lunar close-ups html . ... projection of the whole surface (from Clementine images) 330k jpg ; 1200k tiff . ... GOES satellite image of Earth showing Moon in same frame 92k gif . Moon's north pole from Galileo 132k gif . ... Three-filter color image of the Moon (Galileo) 57k jpg . False-color image of the Moon (Galileo) 123k jpg . ... False-color image of the Moon (Galileo) 53k jpg . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Travel to E-ELT Armazones . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... Wide view centred on the CatтАЩs Paw Nebula (NGC 6334). ... Cat's Paw Nebula , Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS 2) , NGC 6334 . ...

... 2010 . ... The following images are mosaics obtained on 03 August 2010 at the National Solar Observatory/Dunn Solar Telescope with the Interferometric Bidimensional Spectrometer (IBIS). ... The final images are approximately 238 x 242 arcseconds, or 4 x 4 arcminutes, with a pixel scale of 0.0976 arcseconds per pixel. ... The images show a broad range of typical chromospheric structures, including sunspots, superpenumbra, plage, filaments, and quiet internetwork. ...

... Bad Astronomy . Misconceptions . ... I have a fun video on how to stand an egg on end on my blog at Discover Magazine . ... At the end of the show, one of the characters looks up the words "egg" and "equinox" on the web... and says it sent him to "thingsthatarewrong.com". ... Bad Astronomy : Only on the day of the Vernal (spring) Equinox, can you stand a raw egg on its end. Good astronomy : If you can stand a raw egg on end, it has nothing to do with the Equinox. ... 2008 Phil Plait. ...

In this gallery are many images of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies which have recently been discovered and analyzed. ... The central surface brightness of this galaxy is 24.28 . Malin 2 This galaxy is another huge disk galaxy with a scale length of 15 kpc and a redshift of 15000 km/a. The high surface brightness knot in one of its spiral arms actually has the same color, luminosity and H-alpha equivalent width as the entire Large Magellanic Cloud . ... Truly it is a Low Surface Brightness Galaxy. ...

. 23rd of May 2015 . Walking on The Dish surface . by Jing Wang (CASS) . A clear morning at Parkes. It was also the teachers' workshop at Parkes. The participants (in total around twenty people) were divided into two groups, taking turns to go for the hayride and to visit the control tower of the 64-m Parkes telescope. The dish surface exhibits several rings of different colors, suggesting its evolution history. | archive | about | today * ATNF | Parkes | ATCA | Mopra | VLBI | ASKAP | .

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Moon . ... Apollo 17?s CSM, named America, seen over the Moon?s cratered surface. ... Image credit: NASA) . ... Harrison Schmitt with our homeworld (Image credit: Eugene Cernan/NASA) . ... In this still from a video recording Schmitt is holding a rake used to collect small pebbles (Image credit: NASA) . ... The Earth was lower in the lunar sky over the Apollo 17 landing site than on other missions so it appears in more images. (image credit: NASA) . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... Observing . ... Star Atlas . ... stars . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Picture of the Day . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... What causes spikes around stars in pictures, and how can I prevent them? ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ...

TAKE PICTURES. ... Large Monolithic Mirror LMM Gary Matthews Manager, Image Collection Systems Eastman Kodak Company April 11, 2003 LMM Program Goals TAKE PICTURES. ... Mirror concept builds on successful AMSD segmented core design Mirror constructed of smaller segmented blanks joined before processing 5 LMM TAKE PICTURES. ... Large mirror core Pocket milled demonstration mirror AMSD highly segmented core 14 LMM Subscale Demonstration Mirror Design TAKE PICTURES. ...

... SEARCH ASP SITE: Match ALL words Match ANY word . ... Graduate Student Researcher, Lick Observatory, UC Santa Cruz . Randi writes: "When I was in third grade, I didn't know what I wanted to be. ... I decided to become an astronomer because that way I could use electronic instruments and computers to study the natural world." ... Vy writes: "I wanted to be a veternarian as a kid. ... Only later, in high school, did I start thinking that I wanted to be an astronomer." ... search . ...

My wife and I went to Mohican State Park the weekend just before our first anniversary (April 7th). That Saturday, we went hiking and took some pictures. It was a good hike, with some difficult parts. my wife holding the camera . a crevice with a tiny waterfall, that opens up into a big valley . the tiny creek flowing into the crevice . more crevice . ... my wife taking a (non-digital) picture . another tiny waterfall flowing over a wide cliff . ... the lake by our lodge . ...

Official Arecibo picture site . Below are some pictures of the place where I work. ... Picture of the platform, taken by my dad. It doesn't look that big!", he says. Well, we'll see. My dad, in front of the primary. ... You can see how holey the surface really is. ... We see the line feed on the left and part of the Gregorian dome on the right. See from inside, the platform is quite complex. ... Looking down on the Gregorian dome! ... Below: Pictures of my new Office! ...

Since I have added MANY NEW pictures, The page started getting a VERY LONG load time. ... When the page you choose finishes loading, simply click on any picture to see a full size image. Believe me, the full size is worth it on most of them. The full size pictures average around 50 K in size so it shouldn't take too long. ... The Fall of 1999 . The Member's Christmas Party 1999 . The Home School Star Party Spring 2000 . ... The Dome Painting Party - Spring 2000 . ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

Eyepieces Forum Message . Forums: . ... Eyepieces | ... Pictures . ... Posted by Jarvis Krumbein on November 2, 2003 05:23:47 UTC . ... I was having serious problems manhandling the tube assembly of the old setup around as the bloody thing was very heavy. ... Pictures - gjeckes - November 2, 2003 - 08:06 UTC . ... www.astronomy.net . About Astronomy Net | ... Forum posts are Copyright their authors as specified in the heading above the post. "dbHTML," "AstroGuide," "ASTRONOMY.NET" & "VA.NET" . ...

. You probably get bored to see damn hotel again :-) But actually, there wasn't much interesting around :-) . May 1996. Next picture

Chair of solid state physics . ... Spectroscopy of semiconductors and dielectrics. ... Interband transitions and optical properties of semiconductors. ... Optical properties of metal in a Drude-Lorentz model. Excitons in solids. ... Impurity states in dielectrics and semiconductors. Optical orientation of electron and exciton spins in semiconductors. ... General insight onto interband transitions: electron-radiation interaction, quantum theory of optical transitions in semiconductors. ...