Picture of the Week #70



Large group of sunspots as imaged by the SOHO spacecraft

I seriously hope this means that 2010 will see an increase in sunspot activity. I'm really getting tired of showing a blank white circle to field trip groups coming to see our solar telescope!

Picture of the Week #69



Quadrant Astrolabe, c. 1325 at the National Air and Space Museum (Downtown). Photo September 2006.

Picture of the Week #66



Part of the Andromeda Galaxy, taken with the Prime Focus Camera on the 30-inch telescope at McDonald Observatory in 1997 (AASTRA participants took the images and then I combined them into the final color image you see here.)

Picture of the Week #63



Jupiter and the shadow of Callisto from the 16-in reflector at Robert Lee Moore Hall. October 14, 2009.