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  2. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    [10]: 4:40 After the rights to the photograph were bought by Microsoft, it was renamed Bliss and was chosen as the default wallpaper of the Luna visual style, [2] [26] the default graphical user interface of Windows XP. [27] The image was used extensively by Microsoft for promoting Windows XP and their $200 million advertising campaign. [2] [28]

  3. 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 ."

  4. King's Observatory - Wikipedia

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    The King's Observatory (called for many years the Kew Observatory) [1] is a Grade I listed building [2] in Richmond, London.Now a private dwelling, it formerly housed an astronomical and terrestrial magnetic observatory [3] founded by King George III.

  5. List of stars with resolved images - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of stars with resolved images, that is, stars whose images have been resolved beyond a point source. Aside from the Sun, observed from Earth, stars are exceedingly small in apparent size, requiring the use of special high-resolution equipment and techniques to image.

  6. Night sky - Wikipedia

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    Paranal Observatory nights. [3] The concept of noctcaelador tackles the aesthetic perception of the night sky. [4]Depending on local sky cloud cover, pollution, humidity, and light pollution levels, the stars visible to the unaided naked eye appear as hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands of white pinpoints of light in an otherwise near black sky together with some faint nebulae or clouds ...

  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; ...

  8. Astrophotography - Wikipedia

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    Astronomical filters usually come as sets and are manufactured to specific standards, in order to allow different observatories to make observations at the same standard. A common filter standard in the astronomy community is the Johnson Morgan UVB, designed to match a CCD’s color response to that of photographic film.

  9. 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 ...

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