Astroras's Blog

Hubble ACS broken?

astroras — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:49:28 +0000

ACS images faulty - produces 'jets' on everything

Process as negative and you will find ALL the galaxies have jets!

And the stars, too.

ALL point left.

Something badly wrong with the ACS or the processing.

CLICK the image to see all the jets.

Pluto – new views

astroras — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 11:19:57 +0000

Pluto Express is on its way to rendezvous in July 2015.
But the NASA images from 1994 and 2004 indicate the atmosphere has already frozen out.
Enjoy the novel views. The “black holes” are just where there is no data.

Mars at January 2010 apparition

astroras — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:19:59 +0000

A colleague sent me some pictures he took

The details and how they look after processing

An Eclipse with the HST and ISS

astroras — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:11:27 +0000

Continuing the series of out-of-this-World views of eclipses.

This is an annular eclipse, where the Moon is so far away in it’s orbit it does not cover the Sun’s disk. Yet it leaves a distinct shadow racing across the Earth called an Antumbra. It also moves more slowly so the eclipse reaches the longest it can at over 11 minutes.

There are three main views:

Over Nairobi at dawn

Malé at noon and

Mandalay at dusk

The last looks down from the Sun at maximum and the ISS and Hubble Space Telescope have been added to give an idea of just how much the event has been slowed down to watch in only a couple of minutes.

Satellite views of Solar eclipse of 20090722

astroras — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 14:15:36 +0000

New ways to see a total eclipse. Enjoy some 21st century art.

A Bunny on Titan

astroras — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:01:03 +0000

People often see faces in clouds, but a Bunny on Titan?

Eclipse 20090126 – 2nd part

astroras — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:53:38 +0000

BLACK HOLE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN

Better contrasted image for the 2nd half of the eclipse.

20090126 annular eclipse

Annular eclipse 20090126

astroras — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:42:28 +0000

BLACK HOLE IN THE INDIAN OCEAN

Though almost all this event happened over the ocean, some eyes watched from far above.

The Face on Mars?

astroras — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 12:30:32 +0000

Knowledge of Mars increases with every satellite in orbit and on the surface.

Here are some earlier images which give an insight into the wide variety of the craters.

The final image is of a crater 85ºS.

Does it remind you of anyone?

See with x-ray eyes

astroras — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:41:51 +0000

Objects in space rarely look the same in different wavelengths.

Here 3C58 changes quite dramatically moving from soft to hard x-rays and in radio.

Overlaying the x-ray on to of the visible gives and idea of the different scales of the object.

Finally, putting them all together gives an ‘artists rendering’ idea of how it might appear if we could see all of those images at once.