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) . ...

... 2014 December 20 . Apollo 11 Landing Site Panorama . Neil Armstrong , Apollo 11 , NASA . ... Taken by Neil Armstrong looking out his window of the Eagle Lunar Module, the frame at the far left ( AS11-37-5449 ) is the first picture taken by a person on another world. ... Frames taken from the Lunar Module windows about an hour and a half after landing, before walking on the lunar surface , were intended to initially document the landing site in case an early departure was necessary. ...

... About 50 million light-years distant in the northern constellation Pegasus, NGC 7331 was recognized early on as a spiral nebula and is actually one of the brighter galaxies not included in Charles Messier's famous 18th century catalog. ... Images of the star forming region W5 like those in the infrared by NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) satellite provide clear clues with indications that massive stars near the center of empty cavities are older than stars near the edges. ...

... 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. ...

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 . ...

... 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 . ...

... 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 . ...

... 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. ...

... Welcome to George Heald :) . CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science (CASS) welcomes Dr George Heald who joins the Astro Group as another CSIRO Science Leader, specialising in Low Frequency Radio Astronomy. Based in the CASS Perth office, George will work with a selection of postdocs and students, and a number of new staff that will form a Perth-based Astrophysics group for CSIRO. ... Photo credit: Charlotte Sobey (CASS) . ... today * ATNF | ...

... The author of the cover picture is Vasilisa Verkhodanova. The picture symbolizes our perception of the world. The modified emblem of the SAO unifying the 6-m optical telescope and the raditelescope RATAN-600 of SAO RAS is placed in the center of the radio galaxy isophotes. From the one hand, we can investigate the properties of radio galaxies with these (and other) telescopes, and try to study physical processes providing their activity. ...

M1 image More About M1 Nice Color Picture . ... M16 image More About M16 HST image . ... M31 image More About M31 Nice Color Picture . ... M42 image ; M43 image More About M42/43 Nice Color CCD Picture . M51 image More About M51 Color Image of M51 M51 Supernova . M57 image More About M57 Nice Color CCD Picture Very Deep M57 Image . ... M81 image More About M81 M81 Supernova Ultraviolet Image of M81 More about Ultraviolet Imaging . M82 image More About M82 M82 False Color M82 True Color . ...

Weaving together Astronomy+Statistics+Computer Science+Engineering+Intrumentation, far beyond the growing borders . ... Posts tagged ?pretty pictures? ... Astronomy is known for its pretty pictures, but as Joe the Astronomer would say, those pretty pictures don?t make themselves. ... Tags: astroart , astronomy , Chandra , pretty pictures , survey , visualization . ... Comment . ... Entries RSS . Comments RSS . ... vlk on [MADS] Parallel Coordinates . ... Entries (RSS) and Comments (RSS) . ...

... Next: An IRAF-Independent Interface Up: Software Systems Previous: A New PROS . ... We present a high-level representation of the packages and tasks within IRAF/PROS. ... We have produced a high-level overview of PROS. ... The incremental stages were the short-term goals: a project overview diagram (i.e., an organizational diagram of software modules); high-level diagram (i.e., a bubble diagram of each module in the system); and unifying element tables (i.e., tables of task vs. software attributes)....

... Главная . ... Новости . ... Проекты . Любителям астрономии . Проект ISON . ... Подробнее . ... Категория: Новости проекта ISON . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Гамма-всплески ,љ Любителям астрономии ,љ Кометы љ . ... Метки: Космический мусор ,љ Астероиды ,љ Любителям астрономии љ . ... Новости обсерваторий проекта] - Обсерватория Кубанского государственного университета от Иванов А - 09.04.2016 11:08:49 . ... 1999-2013 Copyright "Астрономия и Телескопостроение" . ...

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. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

Astronotes Armagh Planetarium's Stellar Blog! ... Armagh Planetarium . ... Moon . Planets . ... Space Flight . ... A gorgeous image of the real ?Lord of the Rings? ... Saturn is a big planet, about nine times as wide as the Earth, so the rings are huge. Let me put them into scale, if Saturn and the rings were moved so that one edge of the rings touched the Earth, then the distance across the rings to the opposite edge would extend more than halfway to the Moon. ... Saturn has a lot of moons. ...

A star is born. ... These fundamental questions, relating to star formation, connect the origin of the Universe to our own roots. ... This is presented for the first time in a book entitled 'The Origin of Stars', written by Michael Smith of the Armagh Observatory and released this autumn by Imperial College Press. ... FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Smith at the Armagh Observatory, College Hill, Armagh, BT61 9DG. ...

. Radar Meteor Workshop March 2003 Pictures . On the right choose the picture group you want to see and then click on the Thumbnail to see an enlarge picture. Please be patience when loading the picture in your browser, the pictures have a resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels.