50 Favourite AAO Images

50 Favorite AAO photographs
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You are not an astronomer and not too sure of the difference between a galaxy and a nebula. But you want an 'out of this world' picture for a book, brochure, web page, movie or multi-media presentation. This is the page for you.

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Top 50+ AAO images

Messier 83, NGC 5236 AAO ref AAT 8	The Helix, NGC 7293 AAO ref AAT 15	M104, NGC 4594 AAO ref AAT 100	NGC 2997 AAO ref AAT 17
Star trails, south pole AAO ref AAT 6	Trifid nebula, M20 AAO ref AAT 12	SN 1987A light echo AAO ref AAT 66	SN1987A + precusor AAO ref AAT 48a
NGC 1365 in Fornax AAO ref AAT 55	Reflection nebula in M20 AAO ref AAT 69	The Carina nebula AAO ref AAT 9	Horsehead nebula AAO ref AAT 36
Comet Halley, 12/1985 AAO ref AAT 46	The Orion nebula, M42 AAO ref AAT 19	NGC 1973-75-77 AAO ref AAT 34	The Horsehead nebula AAO ref UKS 1
Part of Vela SNR AAO ref AAT 78	Vela supernova remnant AAO ref UKS 2	Dust in Sagittarius AAO ref UKS 3	Rho Oph dark cloud AAO ref UKS 4
The Pleiades cluster AAO ref UKS 18	NGC 2244 + Rosette neb AAO ref UKS 9	Barnard 86, wide angle AAO ref AAT 92	Crab nebula, M1 AAO ref 'Crab nebula'
Great Orion nebula AAO ref UKS 8	47 Tucanae (NGC 104) AAO ref AAT 76	The Cone nebula AAO ref AAT 13	NGC 6726-27 AAO ref AAT 73
The Fox-fur nebula AAO ref AAT 14b	The stars in M20 AAO ref AAT 30	Loops of NGC 3576 AAO ref AAT 39	Dust fingers in M16 AAO ref AAT 47
Shapley-1 planetary AAO ref AAT 95	The Abell 1060 cluster AAO ref AAT 116	Sagittarius star clouds AAO ref UKS 20	Edge-on galaxy NGC 891 AAO ref INT 4
Lge Magellanic Cloud AAO ref UKS 14	The Antares nebula AAO ref UKS 30	NGC 6752 in Pavo AAO ref AAT 111	Comet Hyakutake AAO ref UKS 33
Cometary globule CG4 AAO ref AAT 71	Bubble nebula NGC 7635 AAO ref INT 10	NGC 1300 galaxy AAO ref AAT-CCD 14	Southern arm of M31 AAO ref INT 3
M31 in Andromeda Ref. Caltech_M31	Part of the Milky Way AAO ref UKS 22	Part of the Veil nebula AAO ref INT 7	Sunset trail AAO ref MISC 19
The Cartwheel galaxy AAO ref AAT-CCD 2	Southern cross colours AAO ref MISC 16a	Aurora Australis AAO ref MISC 8	Warrumbungles moonlight AAO ref MISC 6

Updated 2003 January 2 photo@aao.gov.au