Images of M65 and M66

Takahashi Epsilon 180, 10 min color image, February 17 2010, Tzec Maun Observatory in New Mexico.


The two images above from the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt First Digitized Sky Survey (red plates) DSS1, colored by pixel count.

My thanks to the Tzec Maun Foundation for providing telescope time for Astronomy Projects at Pueblo Magnet High School, Tucson Arizona, and College of Sciences and Humanities, University of Mexico UNAM, Mexico City.

Solar Eclipse season at GOES-14 weather satellite

The chart above shows Solar eclipses causing a drop in the Solar X-ray flux measured by GOES-14 (GOES-O).

The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GOES-14 is going through the spring equinox eclipse season. From the geosynchronous position of the satellite, the Earth eclipses the Sun for up to an hour, every 24 hours.

Colorado State University in Fort Collins has many interesting animations of GOES-14 Earth imagery.

Vesta February 19, 2010

Detail from a Takahashi FSQ-106 1 minute color image. This is a robotic telescope at Tzec Maun Observatory, Moorook Australia. The brightest star is Algieba, gamma Leo.
North is up, click image for enlargement.

My thanks to the Tzec Maun Foundation for its support of Science Projects at Pueblo HS in Tucson Arizona.

Hubble image of Vesta in 2007

Interesting B5 flare February 13

From active region 11046, February 13 2010 near 2330 UT
The two frames above are from a GOES 14 X-ray telescope animation posted at LMSAL

Pueblo Magnet High School Star Party February 12

I want to express my many thanks to TAAA members:

Ben Bailey
Lyle Johnson
Randy Mathews
Paul Moss
Roger Schuelke
Byron Skinner

for their support of the Star Party

Mrs. Lolly Levine, Sponsor of the Science Club at Pueblo HS, did a great job organizing the event, which was also attended by Students from other nearby Schools.

My 8 inch Classic Byers Schmidt Cassegrain Celestron, ready to Party !

Comet Lulin exposed in 2009

Southern Galaxy NGC 4945 exposed in 2009

The two images above by Students at Pueblo HS
More details here and here

Recent Hinode X-ray telescope Solar images

January 10

January 24

February 10
I extracted the 3 frames above from this 4 MB movie
Many thanks to the Hinode Observatory
Contributing Institutions:
SAO, NASA, JAXA, NAOJ

Solar prominences and SOHO pick of the week CME movie

SOHO pick of the week: Beautiful Coronal Mass Ejection movie January 26 (5.6 MB)

February 6

February 6