Wise Observatory

18/11/2014

Looking at M33 with the C28 (last night's images, before the clouds closed us down). This is a false color combination of ONE L (luminance) image exposed for 300 sec and ONE H-alpha image exposed for 1200 sec, where the scaled L image representing the continuum was subtracted from the H-alpha one yielding a net-H-alpha image. This was combined into the color composite with the L image, choosing red for L and blue-green for net-H-alpha. Note the much wider distribution of red, corresponding to stars that have left the spiral pattern, and the distribution of the blue-green HII regions that reach quite far from the "red" galaxy...

15/02/2013

Observations of 2012 DA14 from the Wise Observatory are scheduled to start at or near 19:45UT=21:45 Israel time. Sorry, no streaming video from Wise. See the NASA live feed at http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl2

NASA JPL Live @ Ustream.TV: UPCOMING EVENTS: NASA Follows Asteroid Flyby Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 at 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST) For more information, including...

19/06/2011

The main building of the Wise Observatory was recently renovated thanks to a special grant from the President of Tel Aviv University. Not only were the walls and the dome painted, but the roof was made leak-proof and the electrical installations were refurbished and renewed.

15/06/2011

This is a picture of Messier 97 (Owl Nebula) produced by Mr. Evgeny Gorbikov from three individual images through the B, V, and R filters of the Centurion 18 telescope at the Wise Observatory. The Owl Nebula is a planetary nebula, seen in the direction of the Ursa Major constellation and at a distance a bit less than 3000 light-years from us.

10/06/2011

Image of the Spiral galaxy NGC 253 obtainied by Evgeny Gorbkov

08/06/2011

These color images were produced from separate BVR images. The exposures and their combination into color images are by Mr. Evgeny Gorbikov using the Centurion 18-inch telescope

07/02/2011

The central 30 arcmin of M31, the Andromeda galaxy. Image from one of the LAIWO CCDs (all four quadrants) obtained from a combination of 10 min exposures in V, R and I by Uri Malamud.

29/01/2011

Big brother...

Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), part of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), supports the most diverse collection of astronomical observatories on Earth for nighttime optical and infrared astronomy and daytime study of the Sun. Sharing the mountaintop site with the Natio

27/01/2011

Asteroids bombard other odies in the Solar System, not only the Earth (killing dinosaurs). See what happened on Jupiter: http://www.asdnews.com/news/33169/Asteroids_Ahoy!_Jupiter_Scar_Likely_from_Rocky_Body.htm?utm_source=Daily_News_Headlines&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ASDNews_DNH_Z1

A hurtling asteroid about the size of the Titanic caused the scar that appeared in Jupiter's atmosphere on July 19, 2009, according to two papers published

25/01/2011

Image of the Orion nebula taken by Uri Malamud with the 40-inch telescope and the LAIWO mosaic CCD camera. This is a combination of three 180-sec exposures; one through V, one through R and the other I. The colors were obtained by coding I as "red", (R-I) as "green", and (V-I) as "blue".

23/01/2011

Coordinates: 30°35′50.19″N 34°45′44.13″E / 30.597275°N 34.7622583°E / 30.597275; 34.7622583 The Florence and George Wise Observatory (IAU code 097) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Tel-Aviv University. It is located 5 km west of the city of Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev desert nea

23/01/2011

Sky over the Wise Observatory (movies made by combining images from the CONCAM panoramic camera)