I love this

[glenc]

I love this image:
http://media.skysurvey.org/openzoom.html
Look at all those nebulae! :)
ZOOM in.

And I would like one of these 2.6m scopes too:
http://www.eso.org/public/teles-instr/surveytelescopes/vst.html
With a total field of view of 1°x 1°, twice as broad as the full Moon
and a huge (16k x 16k pixels) CCD camera

[leon]

Have to agree, top image Glen, and what's this, a new scope as well, we wish hey.

Leon

[glenc]

The size of the Vela SN remnant is :eyepop:

The Vela SN was only 800 light years away.
And there was another SN there, Vela Junior, that was visible in 1250 AD.
Did the aborigines leave a record of it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_Supernova_Remnant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RX_J0852.0-4622

[casstony]

It's fun to zoom in and find your favourite objects - took me a few minutes to realise I could click and drag to see the sides of the image.

[Jen]

Thats cool :thumbsup::thumbsup: i could play with that for ages :D

[glenc]

If you want more detail you can use:
http://www.wikisky.org/