• Augustana Observatory
  On October 3, 1995, two students in Experimental Astrophysics, Matt Stoodley and Scott Nowicki, used an ST-6 CCD camera on the College's C14 telescope to take pictures of M31, the Andomeda galaxy, and M57, the Ring nebula. The telescope is in the campus observatory shown above.

• John Deere Planetarium
  Stars, planets, and slides projected on a 30 foot dome provide an excellent enviroment for learning about astronomy. Information about planetarium programs may be found on the astronomy home page or by contacting Kathy Nelson at phnelson@augustana.edu or (309) 794-7327.

• Asteroids
  
  NEAR - Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous with Mathilde and Eros
  Relative sizes of asteroids: Mathilde, Ida, Eros, Gaspra, Dactyl - (98 K gif)

  Galileo at Jupiter

  Galileo approaches Jupiter. The computer-generated image above corresponds to 9:58 am (PST) on December 7, 1995 as the spacecraft approached the moon Io.

  Comet Hale-Bopp - Local pictures | Local movie | JPL1 | JPL2 | SkyPub 3

  Comet Hyakutake (C/1996 B2) - Pictures | Local viewing | JPL | ESO | Villanova

  Hubble Space Telescope observations - pr = press release, c = caption

  Eagle nebula, M16 - image (168K gif) - pr, c, earth-based (45 K jpg)

  Orion nebula mosaic, M42 - image (43K jpg) - c

  Core of galaxy NGC 4261, a new black hole - image (48K jpg) - pr, c

  Gliese 229B in the constellation Lepus, a brown dwarf - image (93K jpg) - pr, c

  Super-hot "death star", UV laser in the star Eta Carinae - image (59K jpg) - pr, c

  Hubble deep field, "keyhole" view of 1500 galaxies! - image (132K jpg) - pr, c

  Egg nebula, searchlight beams and arcs - image (74K jpg) - c

  Betelgeuse, UV atmosphere of a red supergiant star in Orion - image (58K jpg) - c

  NGC 7027, planetary nebula with a hot central white dwarf - image (76K jpg) - c

  Warped disk, planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris - image (59K jpg) - pr, c

  Hourglass nebula MyCn18, expanding stellar wind - image (54K jpg) - c

  Nine Planets

  Mercury | Venus | Earth | Mars | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto

  Shuttle program

  SKY Online - Publisher of Sky and Telescope and CCD Astronomy

  Times for viewing the MIR spacecraft

April 15, 1997.