Image of the Month Archive
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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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May 2007
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Liverpool Telescope St Ninians High School Here we are looking edge-on at a spiral galaxy called NGC5908. We can clearly see the central bulge of stars and the glow further out from the extended spiral arms. The dark streak is due to clouds of dust in the galaxy's disk blocking out light from the stars. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 851c000.hfit | ||
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April 2007
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Liverpool Telescope Ashwell PRU Here is an unusual galaxy called NGC4618. Some people think it's a irregular class of galaxy, whilst others think it's a one-armed barred spiral. Whatever the case, the blotchy areas you can see are known as starburst regions, where hot new stars are being created. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 839d000.hfit | ||
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March 2007
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Liverpool Telescope (LT) NSO Staff The LT was closed for much of March due to snow and ice, however, we did get this nice image of the boundary between Mare (Lunar Sea) and a much older cratered region. Notice the many features where the surface layer has been broken to reveal brighter sub-soils. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 814c000.hfit | ||
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February 2007
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Liverpool Telescope Tormead School Here we can see the edge of a lunar Maria or sea - the dark areas on the Moon's surface. Mare are large plains formed by ancient volcanic eruptions that flowed over and covered the original cratered surface. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 783b000.hfit | ||
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January 2007
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Liverpool Telescope Norman Lockyer Observatory The fuzzy blob in this image is an elliptical galaxy called NGC3998. These galaxies appear smooth and can be round or oval. Using false colours helps us to pick out smaller galaxies and globular clusters surrounding it. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 777a200.hfit | ||
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December 2006
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Liverpool Telescope Sale Grammar School This month we showcase an image of the Crab Nebula, otherwise known as M1, which is a vast expanding cloud of gas created in the supernova explosion of a star observed back in the year 1054 AD. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 726i000.hfit | ||
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November 2006
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Liverpool Telescope Liverpool College This is a nice image of the face-on spiral galaxy NGC 2339, showing lots of stucture in the sweeping spiral arms. All the bright stars you see are actually in our own galaxy, the Milky Way, so are much closer than NGC 2339. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 752g000.hfit | ||
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October 2006
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Liverpool Telescope Norwich 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. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 714e000.hfit | ||
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September 2006
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Liverpool Telescope The Brooksbank School Here we see the central regions of NGC7635, also known as the Bubble Nebula. The bubble shape is thought to be a rapidly expanding shell of ionized (hot) gas flowing away from a massive star. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 695i000.hfit | ||
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August 2006
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Liverpool Telescope Skywatch Here we see one of the darker regions on the Moon's surface, known as a Mare or Lunar Sea. A recent asteroid impact has exposed more reflective material below the surface, hence the brighter craters. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 674a000.hfit | ||
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July 2006
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Liverpool Telescope Grange Primary School Here we see a spiral galaxy called NGC6632, which is similar to our own Milky Way galaxy. The spiral arms stand out because they are the regions where hot bright new stars are born. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 616e000.hfit | ||
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June 2006
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Liverpool Telescope Collingwood College Here we see the Dumbbell Nebula (M27), the first planetary nebula ever discovered back in 1764. Once a sun-like star, it has now shed the outer layers of its atmosphere to reveal its hot core - a white dwarf star at its centre. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 580g000.hfit | ||
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May 2006
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Liverpool Telescope Tewkesbury School This image shows a particularly cratered region of the Moon's surface that was formed by the impact of thousands of asteroids over the last few billion years. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 546b000.hfit | ||
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April 2006
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Liverpool Telescope Widnes CLC This object, known officially as NGC4567, is actually two galaxies that are so close to each other that they will merge to form one larger galaxy over the next few million years. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 537b000.hfit | ||
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March 2006
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Liverpool Telescope NSO Staff Image showing clear detail in Jupiter's atmosphere, including the Great Red Spot, which is a storm that has raged for centuries. |
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| Download LTImage version of observation: 522e000.hfit | ||
