Calvin College Observatory
Images

Since the fall of 2000, Calvin College Observatory has been equipped with a CCD camera with a filter wheel and a spectroscope. This equipment is used by Calvin students both in introductory and advanced classes to make a quantitative record of celestial observations. On this web page, we have links to some of the images that have been made along with descriptions of what we can learn from the images and the practicalities of how they have been processed.

Solar system objects
- Phases of Venus (or Venus movie) (updated 6/25/01)
- Crescent Moon (posted 3/16/1)
- Comet LINEAR (C/2001 A2) (posted 7/6/1)
- Jupiter at High Resolution and the Jupiter Movie (updated 8/5/2)
- Two Views of Saturn (updated 8/1/2)
- Pluto in Motion (updated 8/15/2)
Stars, Nebulae, and Galaxies
- U Gem: A Dwarf Nova Outburst and Scale Model Movie (posted 8/15/2)
- Ring Nebula in Lyra (updated 7/31/2)
- Orion Nebula Composite (posted 5/10/1)
- Great Globular Cluster in Hercules (posted 7/3/1)
- Whirlpool Galaxy (posted 8/6/2)

Updated 8/7/02

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Calvin College Observatory
Images