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Description of Observational Subjects' ``Photo Album'' (film and CCD)

We've assembled this collection of photographs and images as samples of the best imaging successes of our students and ourselves using class equipment and techniques, under observing conditions representative of those we encounter in class (on campus and at MIT's Wallace Astrophysical Observatory teaching facility). In fact, several of these pictures were made during class sessions!

The only patently atypical resource that appears here is the color slide film used for some of the photographs; we normally stick to black-and-white print film in class so that we can easily develop and print our photos ourselves. The color slides included here recorded exceptional events (eclipses and a bright comet) which warranted a little splurge for some color slide film and processing!

Our collection includes both scanned-in photographic prints and CCD images.

Several of the scanned photos have been saved in both of two different image file formats:
- The .jpg images are (nominally) better quality but not readable by all browsers.
- The .gif images are more universally readable but not as nice-looking, mostly because they don't allow as many different colors.
Click on the extension for the file format you want to see to pull up the full-size image.
CCD images were recorded using an electronic camera on the telescope. Unless otherwise noted the only processing performed on the images was simply subtraction of instrumental signal offsets. Several of these otherwise ``undoctored'' images are displayed using ``false color'' though, mainly because the range of different brightness levels of grey easily discernable on a computer monitor is quite limited.

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Last modified 1999 Jan 01