This image of Saturn was taken on 10/04/96 at 23:09:41.
These images were taken with the Widener Physics departments' SBIG ST-6 CCD camera connected to the telescope in the Sproul Observatory at Swarthmore College. The telescope is a 24" f18 refractor.
Note: These are 256 gray scale and color images, most browsers will not show all the detail even if your screen is set to 256 colors. Right click on the image and save it to disk if you want to use an image viewer. Most image viewing programs will show the correct colors on a 256 color screen.
This image of Saturn was taken on 10/04/96 at 23:09:41.
This image of M15 was taken on 10/11/96 at 20:28:40.
Color composite of M15.*
This image of the ring nebula was taken on 10/11/96 at 19:35:13.
Color composite of the ring nebula.*
5 minute exposure of NGC7678 taken on 10/11/96 at 21:29:30.
The Trapezium in the Orion Nebula
Taken on 2/9/97 at 18:57.
Color composite using 1.5 second exposures.*
All these images have undergone some processing.
The original ST6 format images can be found at the following ftp address:
ftp://science.widener.edu/pub/images/ccd
.
Software for veiwing st6 images is available at the SBIG web site at: www.sbig.com.
* : The telescope does not focus in the blue, so color images of objects with blue color are not accurate.
Created and maintained by:
Martin Schultz,