Gregory Cisko used a Celestron 8SE telescope and a Celestron Skyris 132C video color camera to take this picture of Saturn. The image was made from nine videos, each about 10 seconds long. The image is made from stacking the 250 best frames from the 640-frame movie.
Venus (right) and Jupiter draw closer together. This photo was taken the weekend of June 26.
Pictured above are many types of galaxies captured by the Dark Energy Camera. At least five are easy to spot: the edge-on spiral on the right side, the pair of colliding spirals at the bottom center, a big spiral in the top-left and an elliptical on the far left.
On Aug. 31, the Dark Energy Survey (DES) officially began. Scientists on the survey team will systematically map one-eighth of the sky (5000 square degrees) in unprecedented detail. The start of the survey is the culmination of 10 years of planning, building and testing by scientists from 25 institutions in six countries.
An enthusiastic group of sky-gazers gathered near Fermilab’s Geodesic Dome on Tuesday to view the transit of Venus.
A reflecting telescope was used to take this photo of Venus passing across the face of the sun on June 5.