... familiar view, really, and its one I only see when I'm too tired to do serious astronomy. But I think I got a nice result, thanks to Photoshop. Comets and Meteors ... long streak near the top of the image.   Deep Sky objects:  Stars, Clusters ... wide astronomy club, and invite the public to Peach mountain to use this and members' telescopes twice a month ...

... old French engineer, may be one of the most famous amateur astronomy photographers in the world. But what's really striking about his images ... brightly colored. In the case of Legault, he uses filters:ll of the deep-sky pictures of constellations, star clusters, ... crowded than in pictures from the Hubble or other space telescopes or big observatories. Ditto for this image of the Cocoon Nebula. ...

... surveys like this give us a grand overview of the galaxy. Telescopes like Spitzer, Hubble, Chandra, and so on usually get very deep, very detailed images, but of only a tiny fraction of the sky. By taking all these images ... a stunning 2 degrees high — four times the size of the full Moon on the sky — by 120 degrees. The Spitzer folks created a video (hosted by ...

... holy sites of the other big science, astronomy, whether you want to check out the world's biggest telescopes or explore the stars. First ... stellar corpses known as pulsars. Some of the data collected by these telescopes has even found its way into Google Sky. The Very Large Array in New Mexico. ... de los Muchachos, Canary Islands. When you land in a deep ravine covered in plant life, zoom out ...

... named SOFIA. Short for Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, SOFIA will observe the universe while gliding through the stratosphere at ... , astronomers don't know exactly how they form. That's because ordinary telescopes can't see through the giant, dense clouds of gas and ... the full benefits of discoveries from Herschel's deep spatial surveys, and later, the James Webb Space ...

... tell. Naturally I give a lot of credit to LASS members who showed up with telescopes for the public to use. LASS was by far the leading contributor with both active participants and telescope hardware. My ... in the air so folks began to button things up shortly thereafter. From all indications, this will be a yearly affair for the Tarleton astronomy school. Maybe we will see you there next year.

... entire Milky Way. As Phil Plait, astronomer and creator of the Bad Astronomy blog points out, the end result is more than just a pretty picture: This sort of ... more than a stunt; big, splashy surveys like this give us a grand overview of the galaxy. Telescopes like Spitzer, Hubble, Chandra, and so on usually get very deep, very detailed images, but of only a tiny fraction of the sky. By taking all ...