SAO Credits

We gratefully acknowledge the advice and support of our External Advisory Committee members:

  • Dr David McConnell, Radiophysics Laboratory, Australia Telescope National Facility
  • Dr John Reynolds, Parkes Observatory, Australia Telescope National Facility
  • Dr John Lattanzio, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University
  • Dr Anne Green, School of Physics, University of Sydney
  • Prof Ray Norris, Australia Telescope National Facility
We acknowledge the use of images and multimedia simulations from Hubble Space Telescope (STScI) and NASA for educational purposes, and special permission to use spectacular astronomical images from the collections of Dr David Malin (Anglo-Australian Observatory) and Prof Michael Bessell (Mount Stromlo and Siding Springs Observatories).

The development of the instructional design, multimedia course content and astronomical content & applications in Swinburne Astronomy Online is supported by the Swinburne Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing and the Faculty of Communication and Information Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology.

Macromedia Flash, Director and Bryce 3D multimedia development support was provided by the Swinburne Multimedia Production and Training Unit, and support with course delivery and newsgroup communications is being provided by Swinburne Learning & Teaching Services.

Extra computing support has been provided by Jon Booth, Russell Edwards, Geoff Mazzolini, Colin Love, Rebecca Welsh, Leigh Dyer, Craig West, Willem van Straten, Andrew Jameson, Alfred Lagos and Nick Jones.

Image credits:

Images used on the SAO website include

  • the Helix nebula [credit: NASA, NOAO, ESA, the Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), and T.A. Rector (NRAO)];
  • the starburst galaxy M82 [credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) and J. Gallagher (U. Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI), and P. Puxley (NSF)];
  • the Crab nebula [credit: NASA/CXC/ASU/HST and J. Hester et al.];
  • the nucleus of galaxy Centaurus A [credit: E.J. Schreier (STScI) and NASA];
  • spiral galaxy NGC 4603 [credit: Jeffrey Newman (UC Berkeley) and NASA];
  • and the Carina nebula [credit: NASA, ESA, NOAO/AURA/NSF, N. Smith (UC Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)].