... 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. ...

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) . ...

... A Total Solar Eclipse . ... Gamma rays are more than 10,000 times more energetic than visible light. ... The surface of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is normally hidden from view by its thick, hazy atmosphere. ... Globular Cluster M5 . ... Stars orbit the center of the cluster, and the cluster orbits the center of our Galaxy. ... Named Dwingeloo 1, this nearby galaxy was only discovered recently (1994) because much of its light was obscured by dust, gas and bright stars of our own Milky Way galaxy. ...

Venus in visible light (violet filter) 50k gif ; 25k jpg . ... image from Pioneer Venus 15k jpg ; 28k jpg ( caption ) . ... 7 pancake volcanoes, alpha region 227k gif ; 327k jpg . ... Lada Regio, 47 deg S, 25 Long, showing mountains and craters 121k gif ; 321k jpg . ... Gula Mons and Cunitz crater, flat image of gulacun.gif 250k gif ; 178k jpg . ... Crater Farm, Lavinia Region, small 107k gif ; 147k jpg . ... Central Ovida region, 1 deg s by 83 deg 191k gif ; 531k jpg . ... Pictures .. ... Venus .. ...

Venus in visible light (violet filter) 17k jpg . Venus in visible light 73k gif . image from Pioneer Venus 15k jpg ; 28k jpg ( caption ) . ... UV image from HST WFPC2 (false color) 23k jpg ; 99k gif . ... New Magellan mosaics (5 hemispheres) 13500k tiff ; ( caption ) . ... 7 pancake volcanoes, alpha region 227k gif ; . Lada Regio, 47 deg S, 25 Long, showing mountains and craters 121k gif ; . ... False color IR image of Venus' lower clouds as seen by Galileo 37k jpg 112k gif ( caption ) . ...

... 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....

I was wondering what conditions should be met to have the "darkest" sky .. ... Upon the above publication of the Southern Galactic hemisphere, TunГ Tezel started seeking opportunities to create the Northern counterpart image. ... So, the initial quest of having the darkest possible sky have delivered us these two all-sky images of the two galactic hemispheres as seen from Planet Earth. Zoomable and 'full-screenable' fisheye view of the "darkest sky" Southern Galactic Hemisphere image. ...

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. ...

23rd of June 2015 . The supernova remnant Puppis A . ... Puppis A is the remnant of a supernova explosion which occurred several thousand years ago and now appears as a shell of ~1 deg diameter. This composite picture displays the radio continuum emission (red) obtained by combining Parkes and broadband ATCA observations, with a visible light (green) background from the Digital Sky Survey. ... today * ATNF | Parkes | ATCA | ...

... Satellite data ] . ... The SCANOR system provides receiving and processing of the Earth-surface pictures made in visible and infra-red bands and transferred by satellites of the NOAA polar orbiter series (in the HRPT mode). ... The SCANOR system includes the desktop receiving device connected to an IBM AT 386 type computer, and the parabolic antenna with the guiding mechanism. The SCANOR system possesses the state-of-art software providing registration and processing of the received data. ...

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. ...

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! ...

... Bad Astronomy . ... On Thursday, February 15th 2001 (and replayed on March 19), the Fox TV network aired a program called ``Conspiracy Theory: Did We Lan