A.A.O. IMAGES ASTRONOMICAL IMAGES FROM THE ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN OBSERVATORY ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- NEW ! Over 40 colour pictures, including 24 from the AAT. See images AAT079-AAT102, UKS024-UKS030, INT001-INT012 and two photographs of the Crab nebula. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The images available here are low resolution digital derivatives of almost 150 colour photographs, all of them made from glass plates using a three-colour process. The copyright of most of the images in this page is the property of the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board, though the images are often for convenience credited © Anglo-Australian Observatory. In some cases the copyright is shared with other institutions. They are made available here for personal use only. Any commercial use of these pictures (including mirroring on bulletin boards or other WWW sites) requires the written permission of the copyright holders. Contact cc@aaoepp.aao.gov.au (Coral Cooksley) for information on reproduction rights and conditions or dfm@aaoepp.aao.gov.au (David Malin) for technical information. ABOUT THE IMAGES Most of the colour photographs listed are made with the Anglo Australian Telescope (AAT) or the UK Schmidt Telescope (UKST), the two telescopes of the Anglo-Australian Observatory. Some have been made by plates taken with the Isaac Newton Telescope on La Palma and two pictures of the Crab Nebula were made from plates taken with the Hale 5m telescope (see Malin and Pasachoff, Discovering the Color of the Crab Nebula in the July, 1993 edition of Sky and Telescope (86:1 43-46) When the AAT is used as a camera it has a focal length of 12.7 metres and a focal ratio of F/3.3. The square field covers one degree of sky (about two moon diameters on a side) and the images are recorded on special black and white photographic emulsions coated on glass plates 255 mm square. The UK Schmidt is primarily a photographic survey telescope and has a focal length of 3.07m with a focal ratio of F/2.5. It photographs a 6.6 x 6.6 degree field on plates or film 356mm square. The colour images are created by combining 3 separate exposures with combinations of plates and filters designed to record blue, green or red light. For the faintest objects exposures of 90 minutes are required for each colour. The monochromes are then manipulated, enhanced and combined photographically to produce the final picture, which show the object much as it might appear in the telescope if our eyes were much more sensitive to the colour of faint light. These images are available as high quality photographic prints, posters, and reproduction-quality transparencies. Please contact cc@aaoepp.aao.gov.au for further details. The 3-colour images constructed from plates taken on several of the world's finest optical telescopes were made over almost two decades as the plates became available. They were assembled into slides sets and eventually appeared on the Internet and WWW in the same way, in a roughly chronological sequence, without regard to the classes of objects concerned. The complete series to date is accessible below. We have also attempted to classify the objects into broad groups. Inevitably, there are overlaps and several images appear in more than one category, while others - comet Halley, for example - does not appear at all, but the following groupings may simply the search for and comparison between objects of a similar type. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTS SORTED BY TYPE * "galaxies.html" Galaxies * "emission.html" Emission nebulae * "reflection.html" Reflection nebulae * "dark.html" Dark nebulae * "planetary.html" Planetary nebulae * "supernova.html" Supernovae * "clusters.html" Star clusters * "stars.html" Unusual stars ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTS SORTED BY SOURCE COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 3.9m AAT AAT 1. The 3.9m Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) AAT 2. The AAT dome and the utilities building AAT 3. The telescope control console of the AAT AAT 4a. The prime focus cage and an observer AAT 4b. The prime focus cage and an older observer AAT 5. Star trails southwest of the AAT dome AAT 6. Star trails around the S celestial pole AAT 7. A radio galaxy, Centaurus A, (NGC 5128) AAT 8. A spiral galaxy, Messier 83, (NGC 5236) AAT 9. The nebula in Carina, NGC 3372 AAT 10. A young open cluster, NGC 3293 AAT 11. A planetary nebula, NGC6302 AAT 12. The Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius, M20 AAT 13. The Cone Nebula in the NGC 2264 cluster AAT 14. NGC 2264 and S Monocerotis. AAT 15. A planetary nebula, the Helix, NGC 7293 AAT 16. A Wolf-Rayet star in NGC 2359 AAT 17. A spiral galaxy, NGC 2997 AAT 18. The emission nebula M 16, NGC 6611 AAT 19. The Orion Nebula, M42, and M43 AAT 20. Nebulosity in Sagittarius, NGC 6589-90 AAT 21. NGC 6164-65, a nebula and bright star AAT 22. Dust cloud and the open cluster NGC 6520 AAT 23. Almost edge-on spiral galaxy, NGC 253 AAT 24. A mass-loss star and nebula, IC 2220 AAT 25. The Jewel Box cluster in Crux, NGC 4755 AAT 26. A galaxy of the Local Group, NGC 6822 AAT 27. The faint nebula around NGC 6164-5 AAT 28. Wide angle pic of the southern Milky Way AAT 29. The Trapezium stars in the Orion Nebula AAT 30. The stars that excite the Trifid Nebula AAT 31. The Hourglass Nebula in Messier 8 AAT 32. Eta Carinae and the Keyhole Nebula AAT 33. The Henize 70 Nebula in the LMC AAT 34. A reflection nebula in Orion, NGC 1977 AAT 35. The Rosette Nebula and NGC 2244 AAT 36. The Horsehead Nebula and NGC 2023 AAT 37. The Carina Nebula and Trumpler 14 AAT 38. NGC 3576 and 3603, nebulae in Carina AAT 39. The loops of the NGC 3576 nebula AAT 40. Reddened nebulosity in NGC 3603 AAT 41. The distorted spiral galaxy NGC 4027 AAT 42. The LMC globular cluster, Hodge II AAT 43. A nearby galaxy, IC 5152 AAT 44. The Tarantula Nebula around 30 Doradus AAT 45. The Homunculus nebula around Eta Carina AAT 46. Halley's Comet on 9 December 1985 AAT 47. The dust lanes in Messier 16 AAT 48. The Tarantula Nebula, with supernova 1987A AAT 48a. Supernova 1987A in March 1987 AAT 48b. As 48a, but with precursor image overlaid AAT 49. The Tarantula Nebula, pre-SN1987 AAT 50. Supernova 1987A, before and after the explosion AAT 51. The Leo I dwarf spheroidal galaxy AAT 52. Detail in the dust lane of Centarus A AAT 53. Messier 87 and its globular clusters AAT 54. A Seyfert galaxy, NGC 1566 AAT 55. Barred spiral galaxy, NGC 1365 AAT 56. Sculptor group galaxy, NGC 300 AAT 57. Around the compact nucleus of NGC 300 AAT 58. M 100 (NGC 4321) in the Virgo cluster AAT 59. M 100 and its dwarf companions AAT 60. A giant elliptical galaxy, M 87 AAT 61. M 65 (NGC 3623) spiral galaxy in Leo AAT 62. M 66 (NGC 3627) spiral galaxy in Leo AAT 63. Edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 3628 in Leo AAT 64. The starburst irregular galaxy NGC 1313 AAT 65. NGC 4038-9 the 'Antennae' galaxies AAT 66. The light echo of supernova 1987a AAT 67. Supernova 1987a after 4 years AAT 68. The region of 30 Doradus in the LMC AAT 69. Reflection nebulosity around M 20 AAT 70. Star colours in the Globular cluster M5 AAT 71. CG4, a cometary globule AAT 72. Uncatalogued dark cloud in Scorpius AAT 73. The reflection nebula NGC 6726-7 AAT 74. Reflection nebula in NGC 6188 AAT 75. The NGC 6188 nebula and NGC 6193 AAT 76. The globular cluster 47 Tuc (NGC 104) AAT 77. A group of dark Bok globules in IC 2944 AAT 78. Part of the Vela supernova remnant AAT 79. NGC 2346, a planetary nebula AAT 80. NGC 2818A, planetary nebula in open cluster AAT 81. Ack 277-03.1, a faint planetary nebula AAT 82. NGC 1360, diffuse planetary nebula AAT 83. NGC 5189, weird planetary nebula AAT 84. NGC 2736, the Pencil nebula in Vela AAT 85. NGC 6618, the emission nebula Messier 17 AAT 86. Bubble nebulae in NGC 6822 AAT 87. The nebula around R Aquarii, a symbiotic star AAT 88. IC 2220, deep image of the Toby Jug nebula AAT 89. NGC 5139, The globular cluster Omega Cen, AAT 90. NGC 6705, a young open cluster, Messier 11 AAT 91. The old open cluster Trumpler . AAT 92. Barnard 86 and NGC 6520, wide angle view AAT 93. The globular cluster NGC 6522 in Baade's Window AAT 94. The Red Rectangle AAT 95. The annulus of Shapley 1, a planetary nebula AAT 96. NGC 2261, Hubble's variable nebula AAT 97. NGC 3351, M95, a barred spiral galaxy in Leo AAT 98. NGC 2442, a barred spiral galaxy in Volans AAT 99. NGC 5078, interacting galaxy with dust lane AAT 100. Messier 104, the Sombrero galaxy, NGC 4549 AAT 101. NGC 4945, a dusty southern spiral galaxy AAT 102. NGC 55, an edge-on Sculptor group galaxy COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE 1.2m UK SCHMIDT TELESCOPE (UKS) UKS 1. The Horsehead Nebula in Orion UKS 2. Part of the Vela supernova remnant UKS 3. NGC 6559 and IC1274-5 in Sagittarius UKS 4. Antares and the Rho Oph dark cloud UKS 5. The Lagoon Nebula, Messier 8 UKS 6. The Great Nebula in Carina, NGC 3372 UKS 7. The reflection nebula around Messier 20 UKS 8. Messier 42, the Great Nebula in Orion UKS 9. The Rosette Nebula and NGC 2244 cluster UKS 10. NGC 6334 and NGC 6357 in Scorpius UKS 11. NGC 6334, a reddened nebula in Sco UKS 12. NGC 6357, a reddened nebula in Sco UKS 13. The cluster of galaxies in Fornax UKS 14. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) UKS 15. The 30 Doradus Nebula in the LMC UKS 16. Star clouds north of the LMC UKS 17. The Small Magellanic Cloud UKS 18. The Pleiades reflection nebula UKS 19. The tails of Comet Halley on 12 March 1986 UKS 20. Clouds of stars and dust in Sagittarius UKS 21. NGC 6522, gamma Sagittari and Baade's Window UKS 22. The Milky Way south of Messier 17 UKS 23. Faint nebulosity near Orion and Horsehead Nebulae UKS 24. M 84 and M 86 in the Virgo Cluster of galaxies UKS 25. Between NGC 1973-77 and the Orion Nebula UKS 26. Between the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae UKS 27. Henize 55 in the Large Magellanic Cloud UKS 28. Henize 44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud UKS 29. The Cone nebula, S Mon, NGC 2261 and Trumpler 5 UKS 30. The nebula around Antares COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE ISAAC NEWTON TELESCOPE INT 1. M31 nucleus (direct image) INT 2. M31 nucleus (unsharp mask) INT 4. The edge-on spiral galaxy, NGC 891 INT 5. The bright central regions of M33 INT 6. The faint outskirts of M33 INT 7. NGC 6955, part of the Veil nebula INT 8. IC 1340, part of the Veil nebula INT 9. NGC 6914, emission and reflection nebulosity INT 10. NGC 7635, the Bubble nebula INT 11. Messier 27, a planetary nebula INT 12. The dust cloud associated with NGC 281 and IC 1590 COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE HALE 5M TELESCOPE Messier 1, the Crab nebula The polarisation structure of the Crab nebula D. Malin dfm@aaoepp.aao.gov.au 10 Oct 1995