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) . ...

... Tonight's Sky . ... The Magazine . ... Star Atlas . ... An artificial comet holds secrets to Earths life . ... Astronomy for Kids . ... Observing springtime deep-sky objects with a large telescope . ... The planet has extreme temperature swings and perhaps active lava flows. ... A digital supplement to Astronomy magazine. ... Join TravelQuest International with Astronomy and Discover magazines on one of three great tour options surrounding this celestial spectacle . ... Astronomy Magazine . ...

... 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. ...

... Camera (cold) going up to observing level for insertion into Telescope using the handling tool (blue). July 2007 . image: VISTA_IR_Camera_to_Telescope_2.JPG . ... Camera being moved from its stand in the lower floor of the Enclosure below the Azimuth floor, using the handling tool (blue). image: remove camera from stand.jpg . ... Camera inside the upper part of the enclosure after being lifted up to the Azimuth floor on its handling tool (blue). image: camera reaches az floor.jpg . ...

... ATCA remote observing . by Ann Mao (MPIfR Bonn, Germany) . ATCA remote observing from the Science Operations Center at CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) in Sydney. The photo shows Ann Mao, visiting from the Max Planck Institut f r Radioastronomie in Bonn, and Juan Madrid (CASS) observing the nearby Circinus Galaxy. ... No radio frequency interference (RFI) was detected, so Ann is pretending to be one :) . ... today * ATNF | ... ATCA | ...

... Астронет | Картинка дня | ... планета Астронет | ... Астрономическая картинка дня . ... Около равноденствия магнитное поле Земли ориентировано так, что создаются благоприятные условия для взаимодействия с солнечным ветром, которое и вызывает прекрасное северное сияние. ... Полярные сияния и магнитосфера Юпитера . ... Слегка сжатое магнитное поле словно через воронку несет заряженные частицы к полюсам Юпитера, опуская их прямо в его атмосферу. ... Туманность Пузырь крупным планом . ...

... 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 . ...