The Waning Moon Wall Art Size:LARGE (36 X 24) the WFPC2 science team

the WFPC2 science team

Conventional wisdom is that they are as old as the planet

2-m KUEYEN Unit Telescope and extracted from the VLT Science Archive Facility

through three filters (B

This image is a mosaic of the Carina Nebula assembled from 48 frames taken with Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys

The Waning Moon Wall Art Size:LARGE (36 X 24) the WFPC2 science teamA series of short exposures through a near infrared filtre was obtained of the waning Moon at sunrise on January 12 (at about 10 hrs UT), i. e. about 5 days before New Moon (24. 3 days "old"). As can be seen in the image, the edge of the full field of view is about the size of the diameter of the Moon. Several 0. 1 sec exposures were made through a near infrared filtre (856 nm; FWHM 14 nm) with small offsets were recombined (to cover the gaps between