Image of the Month
Here we showcase the best images that were obtained during that month by the Liverpool Telescope. If you feel that you have obtained a particularly good observation, then please let us know.
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May 2008
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14/05/08 - 03:43 GMT Liverpool Telescope Home Educator - Birmingham This false-colour image of the planetary nebula M57, also known as the Ring Nebula, shows the cast-off layers of a dying star's outer atmosphere, which now surround the star's remaining core - called a white dwarf. Using false-colours in LTImage can sometimes allow us to see more detail. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 1067c000.hfit | ||
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April 2008
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24/04/08 - 23:09 GMT Liverpool Telescope Tower College This image shows two spiral galaxies, called NGC4567 and NC4568, that are in the process of colliding and merging with each other - officially known as interacting galaxies. They were first discovered in 1784, although astronomers did not understand the true nature of galaxies back then. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 1052b000.hfit | ||
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March 2008
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15/03/08 - 22:26 GMT Liverpool Telescope Sir William Borlases Grammar School This image of the planet Saturn shows some nice surface and ring detail. The rings are made up of billions of small chunks of ice and dust, and are just 30 metres thick, but 275,000 km across. Over the coming years, the ring system will appear to close as our view of Saturn changes. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 1043j000.hfit | ||
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February 2008
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18/02/08 - 20:22 GMT Liverpool Telescope Tormead School Poor weather meant that the best images in February were all of the Moon. Here we see the heavily cratered southern highland region of the lunar surface, surrounding the Tycho impact crater. The crater displays a distinctive ray system of ejected material that reaches as far as 1,500 kilometres. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 1005h000.hfit | ||
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January 2008
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Liverpool Telescope Bolton School This wispy object is a planetary nebula - a spherical cloud of gas and dust, which used to be the outer atmosphere of a star (similar to our Sun) that has recently come to the end of its lifetime. The faint star in the middle, known as a white dwarf, is the hot leftover core of the star. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 905a000.hfit | ||
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December 2007
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Liverpool Telescope Framwell Gate School Durham This image of the Moon shows a large crater and mountian range running through the middle of a much flatter Mare (lunar sea) region. See how shadows can give the impression of depth, and allow us to estimate the height of mountains and crater walls. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 946b000.hfit | ||
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November 2007
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Liverpool Telescope Sale Grammar School This image shows some surface detail of the planet Mars, as it approaches opposition in late December. The dark area you can see to the left of the visible surface is the Syrtis Major region on Mars. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 725d000.hfit | ||
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October 2007
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Liverpool Telescope Honley High School This image of the planetary nebula M76, also known as the Little Dumbbell Nebula, shows the recently disgarded layers of a dying star's outer atmosphere that surround its leftover core, which is now called a white dwarf. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 919d000.hfit | ||
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September 2007
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Liverpool Telescope Sir William Borlases Grammar School This image of the Moon shows a nice contrast between the lunar mountains and the smoother Mare (lunar sea) regions. The shadows help to give an impression of depth, both in terms of the height of mountains and depth of craters. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 898h000.hfit | ||
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August 2007
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Liverpool Telescope Institute of Astronomy (Cambridge) This image shows clear detail of weather patterns in Jupiter's outer atmosphere. The Great Red Spot (a storm that has raged for hundreds of years) must have been on the other side of the planet when this was taken. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 883d000.hfit | ||
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July 2007
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Liverpool Telescope Greater Manchester Setpoint Observing was hampered by sandstorms blowing across the sea from the Sahara desert. However, we did manage to get this nice image of the barred spiral galaxy, NGC7479, which shows a bright central bulge, and dust-lanes streaking through the main spiral arms. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 879i000.hfit | ||
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June 2007
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Liverpool Telescope Old Palace School of John Whitgift This image shows a small part of NGC6888, the Crescent Nebula. The nebula is created by a hot, blue-giant star (not seen here) in the final stages of its life, which is expelling the outer layers of its atmosphere at an extremely high rate and will eventually go supernova. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 862g000.hfit | ||
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