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| NORDIC OPTICAL TELESCOPE In early 1985 Nordic astronomers agreed on the main design features of the NOT. At the same time, the site for the telescope was chosen to be the Canarian Island of La Palma. First light at the NOT came late 1988, and regular observing started during 1989. In July 1997, Iceland became the fifth member of NOTSA. |
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| This page last updated 12-06-08 |
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| Background image original work courtesy of and Copyright J. Weaver 1999 |
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| Astronomy Picture of the Day |
| Just Simply Awesome! A new photograph everyday usually taken by Hubble, Chandra, or Spitzer Space Telescopes with a brief description written by a professional astronomer. |
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| Doomed star eta Carinae courtesy APOD 2004 November 28 |
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| Spitzer Space Telescope
Launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on August 25, 2003. Consisting of a 0.85-meter telescope and three cryogenically-cooled science instruments, it is the largest infrared telescope ever launched into space. |
| Here's all the websites with all the pretty pictures! Most of these images I will probably never see with my backyard telescope. But even if it's cloudy outside, click on one of these links and you'll get plenty of primo eye candy! The second half of this page is chronic education in the third degree. It explains the "hows and whys" of many workings of the universe. Just in case you wanted to know. |
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| Complete pictoral catalog of all 110 Messier objects. |
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| ...and nothing but. Beautiful pictures! |
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| The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory
Website offers daily images of the Sun taken through many different filters which include The Sun Now, Sunspots, Space Weather and Solar Winds. SOHO is a project of international cooperation between the ESA and NASA. |
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| Chandra Photo Album
An Impressive collection of photos from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory |
| Hubble Space Telescope Image Gallery of the VERY BEST of the HST |
| OFFICIAL SITE OF THE |
| The links that follow below are crucial to the determined amatuer astronomer to more fully comprehend the laws and physics of space. These sites describe many of the terms and workings of things you may have thought were just a "joke" but are things we now know to be scientific facts. These pages are guaranteed to put your brain in overdrive. |
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| Andrew Hamilton's Home Page
Created and maintained by a Professor of AstroPhysics, has wonderful interactive demonstrations of the laws of space. |
| Pulsar Tutorial |
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| Extremely descriptive analysis of all objects contained therein including MAFFEI 1 & 2. What? You never heard of those? Well, I hadn't either until I visited this page. The old adage IS true... "You learn something new everyday." |
| Another page from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. |
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| The night-sky is full of jewels that wait only to be admired. This website will show you some of these as you never have seen before. |
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| Anglo-Australian Observatory |
| This page is the gateway to a unique collection of wide-field astronomical photographs, mostly made with the telescopes of the Anglo-Australian Observatory by David Malin. |
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