About the NOAO Image Gallery
Welcome to the NOAO Image Gallery. The gallery includes pictures taken
with the facilities of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory,
and also pictures of our telescopes, instruments and history.
- Items in the Gemini and WIYN subcategories are not
necessarily in the main category.
- Items are being added continually, both from older images
which must be digitized, and from new observations. If you are
interested in something specific which you cannot find here, even after
searching for it,
please ask us.
Also, some images have only rudimentary descriptions: if you need more
detail, please
ask us.
- We are the national facility for ground-based optical
astronomy. We do not have space-based images, for which you should
consider the
Space Telescope Science Institute
or the NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
and cross-references therefrom.
Neither do we carry pictures at other than optical
and infrared wavelengths, such as radio (see, for example, the
National Radio Astronomy Observatory),
ultraviolet (try the
International
Ultraviolet Explorer images, or the
Extreme
Ultraviolet Explorer image archive),
or X-ray or gamma-ray (how about NASA's
High Energy Astrophysics Science
Archive Research Center,
or the site for the
Compton Gamma Ray
Observatory?).
For meteor showers and other fireball or transient atmospheric events,
start at the American Meteor Society,
which maintains a good set of images and links.
And there's always
AstroWeb!
The astronomical images presented on these pages are provided through the
facilities of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, unless
otherwise noted. If you plan to use any of these images for other than your personal enjoyment please read our copyright statement.
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