Astro-photo source thread.

[tom_hobbes]

Some links to cracking astronomical photographs for anyone who might not have visited them. Feel free to add to the list. I've many more links but grudgingly restricted myself to the very crème de la crème of those I visit regularly.<br /><br />First of all there's the main Hubble news release page with categorised gallery links. Eventually you'll wind up at the individual images including the highest available resolution files (some of them up to 200+ meg). You can download all those Hubble images you know so well in their full splendour:<br /><br />http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/<br /><br /><br />Is there anybody left at SDC who doesn't regularly visit the wonderful Astronomy Picture Of The Day? Just for you then: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html<br /><br /><br />Here's the main gallery index page from the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, from here you can navigate to the various categories of individual gallery pages and experience some of the truly jaw dropping visual spectacle that is our universe: http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/<br /><br />For instance this view of the Pelican Nebula: http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/images/d2/pelican_1000.jpg<br /><br />Or this frankly stunning false colour view of the Rosette Nebula: http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/images/d2/ngc2237_1024.jpg<br /><br />But I know you lot, you just can't get enough close-ups of those sexy gaseous nebulae, so it's lucky for you they have another page with further images: http:/ <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p><font size="2" color="#339966"> I wish I could remember<br /> But my selective memory<br /> Won't let me</font><font size="2" color="#99cc00"> </font><font size="3" color="#339966"><font size="2">- </font></font><font size="1" color="#339966">Mark Oliver Everett</font></p><p> </p> </div>