Showing posts with label observatory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label observatory. Show all posts

Friday, May 4, 2012

Celestial highway

Planets wander on the sky on their own highway: the zodiacal band. Even dust in the solar system is somewhat confined to this plane and you can see it here as a lighter conical region in the middle of the image. Sometimes the planets and the Moon catch up in meetings as beautiful as this one:

Moon-Venus-Jupiter conjunction

Sitting on the caldera edge of the Taburiente supervolcano in the Atlantic ocean, a true photon feast!

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

ORM (I)

Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos

El Teide from La Palma





Cherenkov realm



Up



"Band picture": the team!



INT
Marcel, Oana, Ovidiu, Alex, Alin, Dana, Toma



MAGIC is magic



DOT (.) - Dutch Open Telescope, ofcourse



The road to Sgr A






MAGIC and FACT