The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.

— Anaxagoras 428 BC

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NGC 7538

By ebfaulkner6a at Mon, 09/29/2014 - 8:26pm

170 minutes combined LRGB image thru Astro-Tech 111EDT L-3, R-5, G-4, B-5 10 minute exposures combined in MaximDL6 color adjusted in PS6; 881 light years from Earth in Cassiopeia. Astro-Tech 111edt cf, guided with Starlight Xpress Lodestar X2, imaged with SXVR-H9, Starlight Xpress Mini Wheel. Manchester, New Jersey

NGC 7538

Water Spaces

By kuky at Mon, 08/13/2012 - 5:08pm

Water Series

Water Spaces

NON-ASTRO

By ebfaulkner6a at Sun, 08/05/2012 - 7:11pm

 

NON-ASTRO

Pluto Charon

By myamiphil at Tue, 08/19/2008 - 3:51pm

A composite of 13x13 arcsec wide images taken with the adaptive optics camera NACO on Yepun, one of the Unit Telescopes of ESO's VLT (Paranal). The images were taken in the K-band (2.2 microns) from about three hours to about one hour before the occultation. All images were centered on Pluto and Charon, the double object visible near the center, with a separation of about 0.9 arcsec. Because of the system's motion, the occulted star, at the right of Pluto and Charon, appears as a dotted trail, and so does another star in the lower left corner.

Pluto Charon

Another view of the icey surface - in color

By myamiphil at Mon, 06/23/2008 - 11:21pm

In color this time!

Another view of the icey surface - in color

Mars icey foot

By myamiphil at Mon, 06/23/2008 - 11:18pm

First views of the icey imprint after "Phoenix" dug through the surface

Mars icey foot