Beautiful Comet Lovejoy observed from the Southern Hemisphere and the International Space Station

Merry Christmas with this Extraordinary Sun Grazer !!

 More images by Rob McNaught at:
http://msowww.anu.edu.au/~rmn/C2011W3.htm
Many thanks to All Observers for their wonderful images

An important lesson for future Sun Grazing Comets: do not get too close, you may lose your tail

Many thanks to the SOHO LASCO Team

 Merry Christmas

Sungrazing comet Lovejoy 2011 in the SOHO LASCO C3 coronagraph - December 14 08:30-09:07 UT

Sungrazing comet Lovejoy 2011 imaged by the STEREO A and B HI1 Cameras - December 13

Beautiful images by Alex Cherney

Please see his Portfolio at: 

http://www.redbubble.com/people/alexch/portfolio/recent+astronomy

N17W16 sunspot group fast evolution on 110820 to 110822

Three frames from :
Lockheed Martin Solar Laboratory movie

SDSS project for Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades Plantel Sur UNAM #1

http://www.cch-sur.unam.mx/
Prof. Fis. Arturo Garcia Cole

Exercise: Obtain finding image of an object in SDSS

For example M104 the Sombrero galaxy:
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/


Obtain coordinates from the Space Telescope Science Institute page:
http://stdatu.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/dss_form


Place the coordinates in the SDSS chart page:
http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/chart.asp


Save the image