... Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2003 February 26 . Anticrepuscular Rays Over Horseshoe Canyon . ... While enjoying the sunset after dinner near Horseshoe Canyon in Utah , the photographer chanced to find that an even more spectacular sight was occurring in the other direction just over the canyon -- a particularly vivid set of anticrepuscular rays . ... About APOD | ...

... February 22, 1999 . NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide . ... WFPC2 , HST , NASA . ... A preliminary inspection indicates that NGC 1316 is an enormous elliptical galaxy that started devouring a smaller spiral galaxy neighbor about 100 million years ago. ... Most elliptical galaxies have more and brighter globular clusters than evident in NGC 1316 . ... One hypothesis therefore holds that these globulars survive from an even earlier galaxy that was subsumed into NGC 1316. ... About APOD > . ...

... Credit: Rob van Gent , Tiemen Cocquyt , and Carl Koppeschaar Explanation: In 1655, three hundred fifty years ago on this date, Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Luna Saturni - now known as Saturn's moon Titan. To celebrate, consider this intriguing picture of his telescope lens, all that remains of the instrument he used , designed and constructed in collaboration with his brother, Constantijn Huygens. ... Huygens used the verse as part of an anagram announcing his discovery. ...

... Comet Lovejoy over the Parkes Dish . ... This beautiful picture of Comet Lovejoy was taken by CSIRO's Parkes staff member John Sarkissian when it was visible above the illuminated 64-m Parkes Telescope on the 28th of December 2011. The comet, official known as C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) was discovered on the 27th of November 2011 by Australian amateur astronomer Terry Lovejoy . His new find, C/2014 Q2 , discovered on the 17th of August 2014, is currently visible in the sky . ... today * ATNF | ...

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) . ...

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 . ...

... This breath-taking space picture of the so-called Lobster Nebula was snapped during an enormous survey that is being done by a telescope called VISTA. ... The picture shows a region of space filled with huge clouds of gas and sprawling lanes of dark dust, called a nebula. These clouds have stars growing inside them that glow a brilliant blue-white when seen in visible light. ... A bright point of light that can be seen near the centre of this picture is known as 'Pismis 24-1'. ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Observing . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Dave's Universe . ... How did astronomers discover that the expansion of the universe was accelerating? ... In the early 1990s, two teams of astronomers set out to measure the universe s expansion history to predict its future. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... Receive news, sky-event information, observing tips, and more from Astronomy's weekly email newsletter. ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... Universe At Your Fingertips Activities TOC . ... Why do we have stereotypes about what an astronomer looks like? ... A reading list on 20th century astronomers and their work is included in the Resources Bibliographies section of the Universe at Your Fingertips. ... Be sure the students do the activity before the astronomer comes. ... After the visit, give students an opportunity to talk about how the astronomer was similar or different from the mental picture they had before the visit. ...

... Home Lectures Lecture Series 2015-2016 . ... Lecture Series 2014-2015 . ... Beyond New York City . ... The Amateur Astronomers Association is proud to present an astronomy lecture series from October through May each year for our members and the public. ... Amateur Astronomer Association is pleased to announce we will be offering select, limited reserved seating for current AAA members for the Friday, January 8, 2015 AAA Lecture entitled Robert Nemiroff ?2015 Astronomy Picture of the Day?. ...

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. ...

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... Images obtained using the Faulkes Telescope South, operated by Las Cumbres Observatory. ... The Faulkes Telescope Project and Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network had kindly given us the opportunity to use these telescopes and the observatory had booked us four sessions of controlling the telescope in order for us to make some observations on NEOs. ... Just before our first observing session on Friday, we were given a tour of the observatory building and its telescopes, by John McFarland...

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! ...

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... 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. ...

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 . ...

Neptune . ... Triton . Neptune 291k gif . Full Disk Neptune 93k gif ; 29k jpg . ... New Dark spot 25k jpg ; 113k gif ; caption ; press release . ... Another thin Crescent of Neptune 166k gif . ... low resolution shot of Neptune, possibly showing great black spot 210k gif . ... Parting view of Neptune and moon Triton 59k gif ; 17k gif ; 23k jpg . ... Small Dark Spot 190k gif ; 133k jpg . Small Dark Spot 55k gif ; 23k jpg . ... The Great Dark Spot 423k gif ; 153k gif ; 97k jpg . ...

. The telescope was reassembled over the past few days and stands ready for the windscreen. I have created two site for these pictures: one with small image sizes, the other with larger image sizes. This is the larger image size file. Captions above photo . The following are different views of the assembled telescope. A big thanks to French Leger and Larry Carey, both from UW. Photos taken by Gretchen Van Doren/APO.

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. ...