Pluto surface details from HST 29k jpg ; 62k gif ; 194k jpg ( caption ) . Pluto surface map (from above HST images) 108k gif ; 218k jpg ( caption ) . ... two maps of Pluto's surface brightness 131k jpg . HST view of Pluto and Charon (FOC/COSTAR) 10k jpg ; 19k gif . ... HST image of Pluto (pre COSTAR) 147k gif . Charon discovery image (showing elongation of Pluto's image) 476k jpg . ... Pluto and Charon 144k gif . Pluto/Charon from NOT 36k gif . ... Pictures .. ... Pluto/Charon .. ...

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. ...

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) . ...

... Awash in a sea of plasma and anchored in magnetic fields, sunspots are planet-sized, dark islands in the solar photosphere, the bright surface of the Sun. ... A Sun Pillar . ... When did the Cigar Galaxy light up? Evidence indicates how M82, the Cigar Galaxy, became so bright and peculiar: it collided with neighboring galaxy M81. ... NGC 1818: A Young Globular Cluster . ... Back in the old days, back when our Galaxy first formed, perhaps thousands of globular clusters roamed our Galaxy. ...

... The Faintest Dying Radio Galaxy . ... In this paper we report the discovery of the lowest surface brightness radio galaxy yet detected, associated with the lenticular galaxy NGC 1534. This represents only the seventh detection of large-scale radio lobes associated with a galaxy containing a dust lane. Additionally, NGC 1534 has the steepest spectral index and lowest power of galaxies of this type. ... NGC 1534 can be seen at the top of the southern lobe. ... today * ATNF | ...

... 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 . ... Imaging Basics . ... Latest Rosetta image reveals terrific detail of comet's surface . ... RELATED TOPICS: ROSETTA | ... The latest narrow angle camera (NAC) view from the European Space Agency's (ESA) Rosetta mission continues to reveal more details regarding Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko's surface. ... For regular image updates from Rosetta, visit its ESA image page and the Rosetta blog . ... Only registered members of Astronomy.com are allowed to comment on this article. ...

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. ...

Uranus . ... Miranda . ... 1998 image from HST showing bright clouds html . ... Two views of Uranus' darkspot 107k gif ; 40k jpg . normal and false color views 102k gif ; 40k jpg . ... Infrared image of Uranus B 33k gif . Infrared image of Uranus 2 B 37k gif . Infrared image of Uranus 3 B 56k gif . ... Infrared image of Uranus 5 B 43k gif . Infrared image of Uranus 6 B 34k gif . Infrared image of Uranus 7 B 36k gif . ... Uranus' rings (false color) 78k gif ; 35k jpg ; 211k gif . ...

Images and text 2003 Paul Valleli . While up at Stellafane for pre-convention preparations, I spent some early morning times, experimenting with different videography setups on the 13" F/10 Schupmann at the McGregor Observatory. ... Mars was too bright and would have required neutral density filters. ... Next time, I will try 12mm and 9mm projections. ... I aquired about ten thousand frames by 3AM, at which time a breeze picked up and the seeing went to Hellas! ... 2003 Paul Valleli . ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... FLAMES . ... 100 Hours of Astronomy . ... IMAX€о 3D Film Hidden Universe . ... This image, the first to be released publicly from VISTA, the worldтАЩs largest survey telescope, shows the spectacular star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024, in the constellation of Orion (the Hunter) and its surroundings. ...

... STScI-PRC95-45a CRUCIBLE OF CREATION: PANORAMIC HUBBLE MOSAIC ZOOMS IN ON MAELSTROM OF STAR BIRTH This spectacular color panorama of the center the Orion nebula is one of the largest pictures ever assembled from individual images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. ... Though this 2.5 light-years wide view is still a small portion of the entire nebula, it includes almost all of the light from the bright glowing clouds of gas and a star cluster associated with the nebula. ...

... ImgCutout is a Web application that enables professional astronomers and the general public to interactively visualize and explore large, complex astronomical data sets. The application consists of a Web interface that calls a Web service, which accesses SkyServer, a 1 TB SQL Server database containing catalog data for 100 million objects, spectra and images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. ... The database provides images and object data to an image cutout service in response to SQL queries. ...

Microsymposium 38, MS083, 2003 (A4 format) MERCURY: LOCAL VARIATIONS OF THE PHOTOMETRIC RELIEF. ... Because of trajectory and pointing angle constraints the planet could be observed from Mariner 10 only over a small range of phase angles between about 75o and 110o. Therefore the photometric investigations are restricted to measuring the distribution of brightness on the Mercurian disk. ... Raw versions of real-time processing pictures FDS 0000984 and FDS 0000986 were used (images 196 and 202). ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon?'', hosted by X-Files actor Mitch Pileggi. ... Dust around the lander . ... However, it appeals to our common sense: when the sky is black here on Earth, we see stars. ... Bad: The program claims that when the top half of the lander took off from the Moon to bring the astronauts back into orbit, there was no flame from the rocket. ...

This page is devoted to information on Supernova 1999cf in UGC 8539 Basic information on this SN, including the last reported brightness, on this Supernova can be found on the main 1999 supernova page. Information on the original web pages for many of these images can be found on the Supernova links web page. ... UGC 8539 is part of the Coma cluster. ... Seiichi Yoshida's Latest Pictures of Novae and Supernovae page has a 1999cf sub page . ... 16.4 . ... Seiichi Yoshida . 6/1/99 23:14 JST . ...

... 2014: . Suppression of cooling by strong magnetic fields in white dwarf stars . ... 69, 439, 2014. Evidence of supercritical accretion in SS433 . ... We discovered a flat portion (white noise) in the power spectrum of SS433 due to an abrupt increase of the disk thickness in the supercritical region. ... Both the hard X-ray radiation and the visual light are seen reflected from the walls of the funnel that forms in the wind of the supercritical disk of SS433. ... Archive . ...

Spring 2000 at Osborn Elementary School here in Ashland, Ohio. We had set up a display and a scope with a solar filter and talked to . 3 or 4 groups of kids and parents about astronomy. We even gave them a slide show! ... This is ONE of the displays we set up . ... We have a type 2 full aperture filter. Me attempting to show the sun to the kids (the trees were in the way). ...

SKA-3 instrument consists of two energy-angle ( EA ) electrostatic analyzers and two energy-mass ( EM ) time-of-flight analyzers. ... Here you can find more details about SKA-3 instrumentation set. ... Case 218 . ... satellite's trajectory in geomagnetic frame ( blue coloured), UFSIPS scan location and observation moment ( red coloured), interval of the SKA-3 observations ( green coloured) . ... a view of the Nothern polar region at the moment of UFSIPS observations, the scan location is red coloured. ...

... Field of research: Extragalactic astronomy. ... NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Abstract Service . ... CADC Home Page . ... CCD Images of Galaxies . ... RUSSIAN LINKS . ... UA Astronomy Personal Home Page - Bill Keel . ... The Shape of the Rotation Curves of Edge-on Galaxies, by A.V.Zasov and A.V.Khoperskov, 2003. ... A Thickness of Stellar Discs, by A.V.Zasov, and D.V.Bizyaev, 2003 . Minimum Velocity Dispersion in Stable Stellar Disks, by A.V.Khoperskov, A.V.Zasov, and N.V.Tyurina, 2003 . ...