... Alex Gagliano presenting his AAS Poster . ... Earlier this month, Alex Gagliano presented a poster at the American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Orlando, Florida. ... Alex is a third year student at Virginia Tech University in the USA, and this was Alex's first AAS meeting. ... Alex received many questions and inquiries about his poster, visible on the background. Overall, his first AAS presentation was very well received. Well done Alex! ... today * ATNF | ...

Making HST Pictures: Examples and Illustrations . ... These illustrations represent some of the steps and techniques used to produce “pretty pictures” from HST images. ... TIFFs (ftp) . ... Separate images are exposed through different color filters. ... An alternate way to make color images . ... Eight bit (one byte) images contain 256 different values that may be represented by 256 shades of gray or 256 arbitrary colors from a color map (or palette) of all possible colors. ...

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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) . ...

... Old Faithful Meets Hale-Bopp . ... On May 11th the fading comet was photographed behind the famous " Old Faithful " water geyser of Yellowstone National Park , Wyoming, USA, Planet Earth. Perhaps more familiar to Earth Dwellers than the dark geysers on Neptune 's moon Triton , the gas geysers on Jupiter 's moon Io , and the dirty water geysers hypothesized on Jupiter's moon Europa , Earth 's Old Faithful is also reliable - every 60-80 minutes it gushes a plume of water and steam high into the air. ...

... On May 11th the fading comet was photographed behind the famous "Old Faithful" water geyser of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA, Planet Earth. ... Saturn's Rings Seen Sideways . ... Saturn's rings are actually very thin. ... Newborn stars lie at the heart of the Orion Nebula, hidden from view by the dust and gas of the giant Orion Molecular Cloud number 1 (OMC-1). ... Bound For Mars . ... Shells in the Egg Nebula . ... The Egg Nebula is taking a beating. ... The First Explorer . ... January ....

... 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. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... The double star 54 Leonis, spiral galaxy NGC 3198, and emission nebula NGC 3199 . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... Bright planets meet at dusk . ... Astronomy magazine subscribers can read the full article for free. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter....