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M104 Sombrero Galaxy

Friday, August 27, 2010

0.09 arcsecond resolution Solar images from Big Bear Lake Solar Observatory


The Big Bear Solar Observatory, operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the San Bernardino Mountains of southern California, has obtained wonderful images with its adaptive optics system in the 1.6 meter aperture telescope:

http://www.cieletespace.fr/files/image_du_jour/011-03410-01high.jpg
http://www.bbso.njit.edu/
http://www.njit.edu/news/2010/2010-292.php
http://www.cieletespace.fr/node/5752

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Top priority


The LSST has received the top priority for the next large ground based astronomical facility:

http://www.lsst.org/lsst/news

The big mirror for this 3200 megapixel "camera" is being lovingly built by Dean Ketelsen.
I saw it last December during the TAAA Newsletter Folding Party:
http://herrero-victor.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html

LSST headquarters are in Tucson.