The copyright in all Anglo-Australian Telescope (prefix AAT) and United Kingdom Schmidt Telescope (prefix UKS) pictures is owned by Australian Astronomical Observatory (AAO), successor to the Anglo-Australian Observatory. Also here are images derived from material sourced from other telescopes (mainly the Isaac Newton Telescope, prefix INT), and normal camera images (prefixed AAO1, AAO2, AAO3, AAO4) where the images were created using AAO facilities.

Image use policy

The images accessible from this site may be used freely for personal web sites, for presentations and for non-commercial educational purposes, subject to the following conditions.

• The images must credited appropriately. Where the burned-in credit line is legible, that is sufficient, otherwise please use the credit lines beneath each image, and where the images are used on a website, please include a hotlink back to the original image page or the AAO images main page.
• The images must not be used in any way that implies AAO endorsement of any service, product, political party, organisation, entity, religious belief etc., and the site must not display or promote material that could be construed as distasteful or offensive.
• Copyright of images and caption text remains the property of the AAO or David Malin and is not transferable to third parties.

Copyright and permissions issues for all the images referred to above are managed on behalf of the AAO by David Malin Images (DMI). Permission to publish any of the photographs and appropriate high resolution files may be obtained by contacting the AAO image archive (imagearchive at datacentral.org.au). All high resolutions files are supplied without burned-in credit information, but must be credited where used (see below).

Credit Lines:

AAT photographs:

© Australian Astronomical Observatory and (optionally) Photograph by David Malin from AAT plates.

UKS photographs:

© Australian Astronomical Observatory and (optionally) Photograph by David Malin from UKST plates.

MISC photographs:

© Australian Astronomical Observatory and (optionally) Photograph by David Malin.

INT photographs:

© Malin/IAC/RGO and (optionally) Photograph by David Malin.

For more information, please contact David Malin Images (david at davidmalin.com)

Old Copyright policy:

All the photographs accessible from AAO images pages are copyrighted.

The copyright of all photographs should be acknowledged whenever they are reproduced. Our preferred credits are as follows.

The copyright of those images identified AAT (Anglo-Australian Telescope) is the property of the Anglo-Australian Telescope Board, though the images are often for convenience credited © Anglo-Australian Observatory.
Credit line should read:
Copyright or © Australian Astronomical Observatory and (optionally) Photograph by David Malin.

The copyright of those images identified UKS (UK Schmidt Telescope) is shared with the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh.
Credit line should read:
Copyright or © Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory, Edinburgh and (optionally)
Photograph from UK Schmidt plates by David Malin.

The copyright of images identifed INT (Isaac Newton Telescope) is owned by the Institute de Astrofisicas de Canarias and the Royal Greenwich Observatory.
Copyright or © IAC/RGO/Malin and (optionally) Photograph by David Malin.

The copyright of images identifed David Malin is owned by David Malin.

WWW uses
The pictures on this server with burned-in credit lines are available free for use on bulletin boards or other WWW sites.
However, this requires the written permission of the copyright holders, and is subject to the following conditions:

• The images must not be used in any way that implies AAO endorsement of any service, product, political party, religious belief etc.
• The copyright credit line should always be legible. If the image is resized or cropped so that this is not true,then an adjacent on-screen credit with the same wording is required.
• Please include a link to our images site, HTTP://WWW.AAO.GOV.AU/images.html
• Copyright of images and caption pages text remains the property of the AAO or David Malin and is not transferable to third parties.
• If you have not done so, let us have the URL of the site or page where the images are used.

Please contact Repro Permissions, photo at aaoepp.aao.gov.au for information on commercial reproduction rights and conditions or David Malin (dfm at aaoepp.aao.gov.au) for technical information. Some technical information about the photographs is already available online.

David Malin
dfm at aaoepp.aao.gov.au
March 5, 2000

Last Updated Here: June 2, 2000