... 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. ...

... Science User Portal . ... ESO, the European Southern Observatory . ... ESO's Governing Bodies . ... Travel and Contacts . Travel to ESO Headquarters . ... Survey Telescopes . ... Star Clusters . ... Picture of the Week . ... Stars@ESO . ... ESO Science Newsletter . ... ESO 3.6-metre telescope . ... MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope . ... ESO 1-metre Schmidt telescope . ... ESO Science Outreach Network . ... Your ESO Pictures . ... CAP Journal . ... Cover picture of CAP Journal issue 19 Credit: . ...

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) . ...

... Active Disk Building in a Local HI-massive LIRG . by Michelle Cluver (UCT) . ... However, the mid-infrared uncovers a star-forming disk housing an intense starburst with a star formation rate of approximately 21 Msun/yr (Cluver et al. 2008 , 2010 ).This luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG) appears to be undergoing asymmetric inside-out disk building, with a star formation efficiency comparable to local disk galaxies and quite different to merger-driven starbursts. ... today * ATNF | ...

... The Great Nebula in Carina . ... Eta Carinae , the most energetic star in the nebula, was one of the brightest stars in the sky in the 1830s, but then faded dramatically. Eta Carinae is the brightest star near the image center, just left of the Keyhole Nebula . While Eta Carinae itself maybe on the verge of a supernova explosion, X-ray images indicate that much of the Great Carina Nebula has been a veritable supernova factory . Tomorrow's picture: open space . ...

... In Chandor Chasma on Mars . ... Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most recognizable constellations, the glowing Orion Nebula and the dark Horsehead Nebula are contrasting cosmic vistas. They both appear in this stunning composite color photograph along with other nebulosities as part of the giant Orion Molecular Cloud complex, itself hundreds of light-years across. Cosmic Ripples Implicate Dark Universe . ... The Very Large Array of Radio Telescopes . ...

... 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. ...

... Europa's ocean sits under a thick ice shell. If this ocean covers the moon's solid core, does the shell rotate at a different speed? ... To the best of our knowledge, Europa has an ice shell of a few to as many as 12 miles (20 kilometers) in thickness, underneath which lies a global 60-mile-deep (100km) liquid water ocean. ... Get instant access to subscriber content on Astronomy.com! ... If you are already registered on Astronomy.com, please log in below. ...

. Next: Participants Up: Front Cover Previous: Preface . љ . Figure 1: Conference Participants . љ . Figure 2: Some of the participants enjoying the relaxed Mediterranean atmosphere . Norbert Pirzkal . 1998-07-09

... Mike Carr and Jim Gunn prepare the camera, fitting lift fixtures and accomplishing delivery inspections. ... Jim and Mike rotate the camera (on its cart) and remove the cover to inspect the underside. ... Jim and Mike hold a small hands-on workshop on preparing the camera for transport with Dan Long, Jon Davis, and Jon Brinkmann. ... Back at the 3.5m enclosure, Mike, Jim, and French rotate the camera into position for lifting. ...

. Wooden siding in the pictures above actually cover the original log home . Back to Moore Observatory Homepage

... The first step is to open and inspect the camera body. ... Notice that there are snap locks on both sides of the camera body, one of which should already be open since it contained the film removed by the developer. To open the camera body, peel back some of the yellow sticker identifying the camera as KODAK on the top and bottom of the camera and unsnap the plastic pieces. ... You should now have four pieces: the front cover, back cover, middle (main camera with lens), and a cylindrical spool. ...

... 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. ...

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. ...

... Primary Mirror after being stripped and recoated in 3-layer protected silver (NiCr-Ag-NiCr) on 12 September 2009. image: CIMG7901.jpg . ... Primary Mirror held by (yellow) handling tool being lifted off transport container (note the tennis balls it rested on), to be put on wash cart during unpacking at VISTA on 29 March 2008. image: P1060207.jpg (taken 29/03/08) . ... VISTA Mirror Blank: Shape of 4m primary mirror blank being tested at Schott Glas in Germany. image: M1_shape_checking-300dpi.jpg . ...

Cloud cover and water vapor observed at Oma site,Tibet W ang Hong-shuai (National Astronomical Observatories of China) Kislovodsk 8.10.2010 Wang Hongshuai ­ Kislovodsk ­ Oct.2010 2 2008.11 Oma Site 40 m CT 2 tow er 4.5 m antenna Satellite communication w eather station 10m tow er SBIG seeing m onitor DIMM seeing dome MIR cloud m onitor R en ew al p o w er supply Wang Hongshuai ­ Kislovodsk ­ Oct.2010 3 PWV<0.5 5 .0 % 1 0 .1 % 8 .1 % Percent. ... 05 8.3% Percent . ...

... 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. ...

My wife and I went to Mohican State Park the weekend just before our first anniversary (April 7th). That Saturday, we went hiking and took some pictures. It was a good hike, with some difficult parts. my wife holding the camera . a crevice with a tiny waterfall, that opens up into a big valley . the tiny creek flowing into the crevice . more crevice . ... my wife taking a (non-digital) picture . another tiny waterfall flowing over a wide cliff . ... the lake by our lodge . ...

ALBUM: discovery Artist: Mike Oldfield Album: Discovery In progress, source album cover additions to datta@cs.uwp.edu @ SONG : To France Talking on Water Sailing a restless sea From a memory A fantasy The wind carries Into white water Fare from the islands Don't you know you're Never going to get to France Mary Queen of chance will they find you Never going to get to ...