Transcript jodrell_bank_wms - Faulkes Telescope Project

Happy Birthday Jodrell Bank!
From
West Mon School’s Astronomy
Club and GCSE Astronomy Classes
Our birthday project.
To celebrate Jodrell bank’s 50th anniversary
by taking images using the Faulkes
telescope to complement the radio data
and discoveries made by Jodrell bank.
Our birthday project.
The images were taken from a target list
provided by Jodrell Bank for ‘The Seeing
the Invisible’ anniversary activity.
M1 (The crab Nebula).
In 1054 a supernova
was seen and was
visible even during
the day.
Can you see the star
responsible for the
supernova in the
middle of the nebula?
The green filter
The supernova was
recorded by Chinese
astronomers and can
now be seen in small
telescope as ‘The
Crab Nebula’.
The blue filter
Jodrell Bank has
detected a pulsar at
the centre of this
supernova remnant.
The crab in Hydrogen Alpha
The pulsar is
continuously
monitored by Jodrell
Bank whenever it is
above the horizon and
the rotation is
speeding up.
M42 (The Orion Nebula).
• The Orion nebula is
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located in the sword
beneath Orion’s belt.
The four new stars in
the middle are known
as the trapezium.
Does the gas cloud
look like a map of
Wales?
The green filter
• M42 is a vast region
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of dust and gas which
is a stellar nursery for
new stars.
Different filters bring
out different details in
the images.
The blue filter
• To obtain the colour
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image three images
are taken with blue,
green and red filters
in turn.
The three images are
then combined to
produce the colour
image.
Quasar NGC1275
• NGC 1275 is a distant
235 million light-years
away and known to
emit powerful signals
at both X-ray and
radio frequencies.
The green filter
The blue filter
3C 84 (NGC 1275) radio image.
3C 84 is the famous
radio galaxy Perseus
A, identified with NGC
1275, the dominant
giant elliptical galaxy
in the Perseus cluster.
mg0414+0534
• This image shows
gravitational lensing.
• It was taken with an
infrared filter for 120
seconds.
NGC 891
• NGC 891 is a fine
edge-on spiral with a
faint dust lane along
its equator.
Happy Birthday Jodrell Bank!
• This work is part of the ‘Seeing the
Invisible’ project in which a group of
schools across Britain collaborated using
the Faulkes telescope.
• All images shown here were taken by
West Mon School and are courtesy of the
Faulkes telescope project.