GALAXIES cenA .tiff 40" Bright Radio Galaxy M31.tiff Nikon Andromeda Galaxy (note HII regions in spiral arms) ngc6744.tiff 40" NGC 6744 a face-on spiral clouds_20d.tiff H'blad The Magellanic Clouds our nearest neighbours Lmc_7.tiff Nikon The Large Magellanic Clouds Lmc_zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image smc_7.tiff Nikon The Small Magellanic Clouds smc-zoom.tiff Nikon Detail of previous image 30dor_40_BVR.tiff 40" The 30 Dor nebula BVR image 30dor_40_BV.tiff 40" " BV Halpha 30dor.unsharp.tiff 40" " B [OIII] Halpha n346_V.tiff 40" NGC 346 the brightest O association in the SMC crux_ha.tiff H'blad The Pointers, the Southern Cross and the Milky Way around to Carina Jewel box .tiff 40" NGC 4755, the Jewel Box cluster containin kappa Crucis eta car.tiff Nikon The Eta Carina Nebula B [OIII] Halpha etacar_tr16.tiff 40" The centre of the nebula near Eta Carina, the cluster Trumpler 16 and the keyhole nebula etacar_log-linlin.tiff 40" " " another treatment of the intensities bo10.tiff Bochum 10 another of the clusters in the Eta Carina Nebula tr24.tiff 40" Trumpler 24 one of the young clusterings in ScoOB1 NGC6188.tiff 40" An interesting region of dust and young stars in ScoOB1 pis24.tiff NGC 6357 (Pismis 24) a young star forming cluster containing a bright Wolf Rayet star. sag-oph .tiff H'blad A wide-field view of the Milky Way centered on the centre of the the Galaxy. Note the Lagoon and Triffid Nebula which lie in the foreground and are seen against the dust clouds hiding the galactic centre at optical wavelengths. Sgr OB1 lagoon_7.tiff Nikon The Lagoon and Triffid nebulae. B [OIII] Halpha trifid.tiff 40" The Trifid Nebula. The changing colours from yellow to red in the lower nebula indicates the ionization gradient, yellow: highest red: lowest. The blue nebula results from mainly blue light reflected by the dust in a cloud more distant from the bright blue stars. b014.tiff 40" Another young star forming cluster near the Trifid and Lagoon Nebulae. lagoon_7_only.tiff Nikon A section of the above Nikon image. lagoon_40_all.tiff 40" The central part of the Lagoon nebula BV halpha lagoon_haoiii.tiff 40" An enlarged porion of the central part of the Lagoon nebula but with the colour table rotated to make a "Turner". lagoon_sungh.tiff 40" Another view of the Lagoon nebula highlighting a bright rim. eagle.v2.tiff 40" The Eagle Nebula NGC 6611, a bright star forming region. eagle_centre.tiff 40" The centre of the Eagle nebula, rotated to the same orientation as the Hubble image. IRASdust.tiff IRAS IRAS mosaic of the Orion-Eridanus region and the galactic plane. Colour coding ordered to the IRAS wavelengths. Image from Ralph Sutherland please get permission to use. OriEriEW.tiff H'blad Mosaiced Hasselblad image of the Orion-Eridanus bubble. Orion_20.tiff H'blad Wide-field image of the greater Orion region. Note Barnard's Loop an extensive HII region surrounding the constellation of Orion and the Orion OB association. the Lambda Orionis bubble is at the top. orion_st.tiff Nikon Between Orion's belt and the great Nebula of Orion. Note the Horsehead Nebula, a dark dust cloud, below the belt and the beautiful whirls of gas streaming away from the Orion nebula. horsehead.tiff 40" The Horsehead Nebula a dark dust cloud. The following 4 images are all of the region surrounding the trapezium cluster. They are taken with various telescope and show different resolution due to the different seeings. They are also taken with different combination of spectral-line filters. orion_40.tiff 40" The area around the trapezium cluster. B [OIII] Halpha orion_40_V.tiff 40" The area around the trapezium cluster. B V Halpha M42KPNO.tiff 1m The area around the trapezium cluster. KPNO SII,NII,Halpha Image from Ralph Sutherland please get permission to use. M42ntt.tiff 4m The area around the trapezium cluster. NTT SII,NII,Halpha Image from Ralph Sutherland please get permission to use. HST_orion.tiff HST The area around the trapezium cluster. HST SII,NII,Halpha Image from Ralph Sutherland please get permission to use. Orion_lambda.tiff Nikon The Lambda Orionis Bubble. A large Stromgren sphere Rosette.tiff Nikon The Rosette nebula. n2264n.tiff 40" Part of NGC 2264 a young star forming cluster in Monocerotis n2264w_1.5.tiff 40" Part of NGC 2264 a young star forming cluster in Monocerotis crab_40.tiff 40" The Crab supernova remnant. B [OIII] Halpha Note the different green, yellow and red filaments. The green filaments indicate the most energetic shocks. vela-puppis_20.tiff H'blad A wide-field view of the Vela-Puppis association and the Gum Nebula. Note the comet Hale-Bopp lower right on its return South after passing behind the sun. vela7_low.tiff Nikon The Vela Supernova remnant. Same comment as for Crab. vela_zoom2_o3.tiff Nikon Detail of the Vela SN remnant highlighting some interesting twisted filaments of mainly [OIII] emission. Hale-Bopp.tiff Nikon Hale-Bopp caught as it passed two globular clusters. This image is a V band image with different intensity cuts given a different colour. Helix.tiff 40" The Helix Nebula, a planetary nebula. In this image the green and blue colours have been reversed to give a more pleasing effect. n330_hst.tiff HST A young cluster in the small Magellanic Clouds. The blue colour represents the 164nm Uv band, the green is V and red is Halpha. the pink stars are Be stars, that is, blue stars with strong Halpha emission. The yellow-white stars are A-type supergiants and the orange-red stars are the red-supergiants. All the bright stars in the cluster have masses greater than 12 solar masses and will eventually become type II supernovae like SN1987A. n2004.tiff HST A young cluster in the LMC. n2004_hst.tiff HST A young cluster in the LMC. n2100_hst.tiff HST A young cluster in the LMC. Study of these young massive clusters will provide details of the evolution of massive stars and the mass function likely to apply to star-burst galaxies.