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  2. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...

  3. Speckle imaging - Wikipedia

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    The shift-and-add method (more recently "image-stacking" method) is a form of speckle imaging commonly used for obtaining high quality images from a number of short exposures with varying image shifts. [5] [6] It has been used in astronomy for several decades, and is the basis for the image stabilisation feature on some cameras. The short ...

  4. Lucky imaging - Wikipedia

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    Lucky image of M15 core. Lucky imaging (also called lucky exposures) is one form of speckle imaging used for astrophotography.Speckle imaging techniques use a high-speed camera with exposure times short enough (100 ms or less) so that the changes in the Earth's atmosphere during the exposure are minimal.

  5. Astronomy Picture of the Day - Wikipedia

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    Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is a website provided by NASA and Michigan Technological University (MTU). It reads: "Each day a different image or photograph of our universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer ."

  6. Tarantula Nebula - Wikipedia

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    Hubble's high resolution view of the star-forming region of Tarantula Nebula and the R136 super star cluster at its center The Tarantula Nebula has an apparent magnitude of 8. Considering its distance of about 49 kpc [ 2 ] (160,000 light-years ), this is an extremely luminous non-stellar object.

  7. Category:Astronomy images - Wikipedia

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    Media in category "Astronomy images" This category contains only the following file. Nininger-portrait.jpg 209 × 205; ...