ASTRONOMICAL IMAGES
COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 3.9M ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN TELESCOPE (AAT)
All photographs copyright of the Anglo Australian Telescope Board
- 01 The 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope
- 02 The AAT dome and the utilities building
- 03 The AAT telescope control console
- 04 The prime focus cage and an observer
- 05 Star trails southwest of the AAT dome
- 06 Star trails around the S celestial pole
- 07 A radio galaxy, Centaurus A, (NGC 5128)
- 08 A spiral galaxy, Messier 83, (NGC 5236)
- 09 The nebula in Carina, NGC 3372
- 10 A young open cluster, NGC 3293
- 11 A planetary nebula, NGC 6302
- 12 The Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius, M 20
- 13 The Cone Nebula in the NGC 2264 cluster
- 14 NGC 2264 and S Monocerotis.
- 15 A planetary nebula, the Helix, NGC 7293
- 16 A Wolf-Rayet star in NGC 2359
- 17 A spiral galaxy, NGC 2997
- 18 The emission nebula M 16, NGC 6611
- 19 The Orion Nebula, M42, and M43
- 20 Nebulosity in Sagittarius, NGC 6589-90
- 21 NGC 6164-65, a nebula and bright star
- 22 Dust cloud and the open cluster NGC 6520
- 23 Almost edge-on spiral galaxy, NGC 253
- 24 A mass-loss star and nebula, IC 2220
- 25 The Jewel Box cluster in Crux, NGC 4755
- 26 A galaxy of the Local Group, NGC 6822
- 27 The faint nebula around NGC 6164-5
- 28 Wide angle pic of the southern Milky Way
- 29 The Trapezium stars in the Orion Nebula
- 30 The stars that excite the Trifid Nebula
- 31 The Hourglass Nebula in Messier 8
- 32 Eta Carinae and the Keyhole Nebula
- 33 The Henize 70 Nebula in the LMC
- 34 A reflection nebula in Orion, NGC 1977
- 35 The Rosette Nebula and NGC 2244
- 36 The Horsehead Nebula and NGC 2023
- 37 The Carina Nebula and Trumpler 14
- 38 NGC 3576 and 3603, nebulae in Carina
- 39 The loops of the NGC 3576 nebula
- 40 Reddened nebulosity in NGC 3603
- 41 The distorted spiral galaxy NGC 4027
- 42 The LMC globular cluster, Hodge II
- 43 A nearby galaxy, IC 5152
- 44 The Tarantula Nebula around 30 Doradus
- 45 The Homunculus nebula around Eta Carina
- 46 Halley's Comet on 9 December 1985
- 47 The dust lanes in Messier 16
- 48 The Tarantula Nebula, + supernova 1987A
- 48a Supernova 1987A, the star, March 1987
- 48b As 48a, precursor image overlaid
- 49 The Tarantula Nebula, pre-SN1987A
- 50 Supernova 1987A, before and after
- 51 The Leo I dwarf spheroidal galaxy
- 52 Detail in the dust lane of Centarus A
- 53 Messier 87 and its globular clusters
- 54 A Seyfert galaxy, NGC 1566
- 55 Barred spiral galaxy, NGC 1365
- 56 Sculptor group galaxy, NGC 300
- 57 Around the compact nucleus of NGC 300
- 58 M 100 (NGC 4321) in the Virgo cluster
- 59 M 100 and its dwarf companions
- 60 A giant elliptical galaxy, M 87
- 61 M 65 (NGC 3623) spiral galaxy in Leo
- 62 M 66 (NGC 3627) spiral galaxy in Leo
- 63 Edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 3628 in Leo
- 64 The starburst irregular galaxy NGC 1313
- 65 NGC 4038-9 the 'Antennae' galaxies
- 66 The light echo of supernova 1987a
- 67 Supernova 1987a after 4 years
- 68 The region of 30 Doradus in the LMC
- 69 Reflection nebulosity around M 20
- 70 Star colours in the Globular cluster M5
- 71 CG4, a cometary globule
- 72 Uncatalogued dark cloud in Scorpius
- 73 The reflection nebula NGC 6726-7
- 74 Reflection nebula in NGC 6188
- 75 The NGC 6188 nebula and NGC 6193
- 76 The globular cluster 47 Tuc (NGC 104)
- 77 A group of dark Bok globules in IC 2944
- 78 Part of the Vela supernova remnant
All Photographs by David Malin
COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1.2M SCHMIDT TELESCOPE (UKS)
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