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This is the old Providence, Rhode Island time keeping station at Brown University's Ladd Observatory. The observatory was built in 1891 and is still in operation today as an astronomical observatory.
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This striking view of the central parts of the Milky Way was obtained with the VISTA survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile. This huge picture is 108 500 by 81 500 pixels and contains nearly nine billion pixels. It was created by combining thousands of individual images from VISTA, taken through three...
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APRIL 24, 2007: In celebration of the 17th anniversary of the launch and deployment of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers is releasing one of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble's cameras. It is a 50-light-year-wide view of the central region of the Carina Nebula where a maelstrom of s...
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Before making the final trek thru the streets of Los Angeles, CA to the LA Science Center on October 13, 2012 the Space Shuttle Endeavour rested for several hours in a parking lot in Westchexter, CA. This was the first time the general public could get up close and personal to a real space shuttle. The scale and size ...
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Magyar Csillagászati Egyesület 2012 - Tarján tábori csoportkép Hungarian Astronomical Camp 2012
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Bátorliget - 2012 Messier maraton
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Pannon Astronomical show and planetarium - Bakonybel
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My first attempt at doing a gigapan of the night sky. This fails for two major reasons. First, there is no horizon to calibrate the gigapan, so the image might not have stitched properly. Second, even on a clear night with bright stars I have no good reference points to determine if the gigapan is seamless or repeating...
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This is a natural occurence but occurs here west of the mountains in Monte Alegre more often due to the atmospheric conditions. Halos form when moisture enters high in the atmosphere forming ice crystals, the orientation of the crystals bend light at angles that produce either 33° or 66° arcs. I think this is a 33° ...
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