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... Gallery . ... Wide Field Survey Images . Miscellaneous Wide Field Images . ... Sidebar Left . Sidebar Top . No Sidebar . Sidebar Bottom . Sidebar Right . ... Title: Small Magellenic Cloud . Description: NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ... Small Magellenic Cloud NOTE: All images are copyright and must not be reproduced or mirrored in any form without written permission. ...

... We can help students grasp the significance of Hubble's extremely keen eye, and learn a bit about angles and math in the process, with the following in-class activity. ... Looking through binoculars or telescopes allows us to magnify a small section of the sky. To measure sizes or distances in that small section, astronomers divide a degree into 60 smaller pieces called arcminutes, and further subdivide minutes into 60 smaller sections called arcseconds. ... 30 feet = . ... 36 seconds . ...

The following pages contain some examples of what you can do with my merge-anim script.. I tried to minimize the size of the images on these pages (all animations are smaller than 50 Kb), but you will probably have to be patient anyway. ... Adding a background to an animation . ... It merges a background (or top) layer with all other layers in an animation. ... I will probably add some options for applying a layer mask to an animation or applying an animated mask to a static layer. ...

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... Another Nearby Supernova in the Whirlpool Galaxy . ... Credit Copyright: Stephane Lamotte Bailey, Marc Deldem , Jean-Luc Dauvergne Explanation: One of the brightest supernovas in recent years has just been recorded in the nearby Whirlpool galaxy (M51). ... Pictured above are two images of M51 taken with a small telescope: one taken on May 30 that does not show the supernova, and one taken on June 2 which does. The June 2 image is one of the first images reported to contain the supernova. ...

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... A hundred years later, a handful of Tunguska-sized asteroids have been spotted by telescopes, but most remain unseen. The asteroid designated 2008 TC3 , which made the news on October 6th before colliding with the Earth on October 7th was too small to constitute a part of the "Earth impact hazard". ... 2008 TC3, for example, finally exploded in the atmosphere above Sudan . ... Wednesday, 8 October 2008 01:15 . International Year of Astronomy, Ireland National Node . ...

Gaspra . ... On October 29, 1991, Galileo came within 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) of Gaspra. ... These two color views of the asteroid Gaspra were produced by combining three images taken through violet, green, and infrared filters by the Galileo spacecraft on October 29, 1991, from a distance of about 16,000 kilometers (10,000 miles). ... The earliest view (upper left) was taken 5 hours, 45 minutes before closest approach when the spacecraft was 164,000 kilometers (102,000 miles) from Gaspra. ...

. Please use the following for publications and media citations: . "Based on observations obtained with Apache Point Observatory's 0.5-m Astrophysical Research Consortium Small Aperture Telescope." . List of publications based on 0.5-m observations (TBD) . for questions or comments contact archive server .