Sweet home for 22 fast pulsars

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NGC 104, 47 in the Toucan constellation, near the Small Magellanic Cloud. The image was taken with a robotic telescope in Australia, during the morning in Tucson.
The color describes the brightness, varying by about 2.5 magnitudes (a factor of 10), from red to blue. Here is a Hubble Telescope image.


I thank the Tzec Maun Foundation, they support an Astronomy science project at Pueblo High School in Tucson, where I am a volunteer.

New active region and beautiful prominences

This is a detail from a SOHO ultraviolet image on January 7 at 0718 UT

I need more sunspots !!

The sunspot number progression continues to test my patience. It is well below the latest forecast dated May 2009, and much below earlier forecasts.

HELP !!

Solar active region 11039

Detail of an image by Kanzelhoehe Observatory in Austria January 2. This region has produced more than 40 flares. Here is an animation of a C6.2 X-ray class flare, from the STEREO Ahead extreme ultraviolet camera.

Detail of a SOHO 171 angstrom image January 5

A telescope waits

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Dance of the Telescopes

I recently showed this image at an Imaging Group meeting of the Tucson Astronomy Association.
The animation lasts about 45 minutes in real time. Notice the moving shadow of the telescopes, cast by of the moon. The telescopes are at New Mexico Skies, in the Sacramento Mountains, east of Cloudcroft New Mexico.

Ring around the Moon

This image is from the All Sky camera at New Mexico Skies, in New Mexico USA, a wonderful facility with many robotic telescopes. See the message by Steve Coe in the Arizona Observers List.