Astronomical Images taken at FitzRandolph Observatory

These images of Jupiter, Io, and Europa were taken on 2004 April 5 using a Creative WebCam NX.

Jupiter (12 KB)

Io and Europa (9 KB)

Jupiter (12 KB)

This image of M57, the Ring Nebula, was taken on 2003 October 2 with our SBIG ST-7 CCD camera and special color filters designed for use with our telescope. This is the first near-true color image taken with our camera.

This image of Saturn was taken on 2003 February 8.

These images were taken on 2002 September 6, using Bob Vanderbei's MX916 CCD camera.

M15 (76 KB)

M57 (34 KB) Ring Nebula

This image of Pluto was taken on 2002 July 25.

This image of M57 was taken during our Open House on 2002 May 30.

M57 (230 KB)
Ring Nebula

This image of C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang) was taken during our Open House on 2002 May 19.

Movie of C/2002 C1
Ikeya-Zhang (100 KB)

These images were taken on 2001 December 20.

M1 (287 KB) Crab Nebula

Movie of Vesta (156 KB)

Movies of the Microwave Anisotropy Probe are available here.

These images were taken during our Open House on 2001 March 23.

M1 (56 KB) Crab Nebula	M53 (63 KB)	M97 (14 KB) Owl Nebula
M81 (285 KB) Bode's Galaxy	M82 (27 KB) Cigar Galaxy

These images were taken with our SBIG ST-7 CCD camera on 2000 November 7. (The "color" images do not represent what a human would see, because they were taken with different infrared filters, not true RGB filters.)

M2 (67 KB)	M42 (193 KB) Orion Nebula	M74 (279 KB)
M77 (183 KB)	NGC891 (421 KB)

The following images were taken using Kirk Alexander's SBIG ST-7 CCD camera.

This is an image of comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR). An animation was made from a sequence of several such images.

This is an image of M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy, a Sc spiral galaxy 22 million light years away. See the full size or a web-page sized version.

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