The Hobby-Ebery Telescope at McDonald Observatory. December 2003.
This is a view similar to Picture of the Week #31, except at sunrise this time.
Picture of the Week #67
The Hobby-Ebery Telescope at McDonald Observatory. December 2003.
This is a view similar to Picture of the Week #31, except at sunrise this time.
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 #64
L to R: The Spirit of St. Louis, SpaceShip One and the Glamorous Glennis. Downtown Air and Space Museum, September 2006.
Picture of the Week #63
Jupiter and the shadow of Callisto from the 16-in reflector at Robert Lee Moore Hall. October 14, 2009.
Picture of the Week #61
Double rainbow over central Texas, with brighter sky inside the primary bow.
Picture of the Week #60
Jupiter photographed with my Canon point-and-shoot held to the eyepiece of the 16-inch reflector that I run public viewing nights on. Septemeber 30, 2009 at 9:45 p.m. CDT
Picture of the Week #59
Mercury as imaged by the MESSENGER spacecraft during its fly-by yesterday.
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I was following the fly-by on Twitter yesterday, but I missed some of the drama of the spacecraft going into safe mode until I got home from work. It turns out that some of the data was lost, but the ultimate goal of the fly-by was a gravity assist, which worked fine. The spacecraft will actually go in to orbit in March 2011, but during the three Messenger fly-bys we've already seen parts of Mercury that have never been imaged up-close before. Only about 40% of Mercury was imaged by the Mariner 10 spacecraft in 1974 and 75, so there is still a lot to learn about this little planet!
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