Oxford Astrophysics

Astrophysics at Oxford

Astrophysics is taught at Oxford as part of the undergraduate Physics degree, with both option and core courses in astrophysics, and the opportunity of an astrophysics project in the final year.

• Physics department and undergraduate course information

Astrophysics research and graduate study is carried out in two sub-departments of the Physics department. You are currently reading the web page of the Sub-department of Astrophysics.

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• Wetton Telescope

There is also a Theoretical Astrophysics Group in the Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics.

Latest Images from the Philip Wetton Telescope

Taken 31/01/2010 with the Philip Wetton telescope in Oxford SBIG ST8 binned 2x2 giving 1.4" pixels 7200s of H-alpha images, with 300s integrations Image quality ~3.5" (average airmass of 2 though!)(Fraser Clarke)

NGC 7635, The Bubble Nebula, imaged with the Wetton Telescope (Fraser Clarke)