06/04/2016 - The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0

06/04/2016

Comet 252P/Linear: an image (03 June 2016)

Almost two months after our previous observations, we imaged comet 252P/Linear again. This comet had an historic close fly-by with the Earth in March. Comet was reported to be fadind fast early on June 4. The...

Probable Supernova ASASSN-16fs in UGC 09523: an image (3 June 2016)

galaxy / supernova

06/04/2016

Probable Supernova ASASSN-16fs in UGC 09523: an image (3 June 2016)

The probable supernova ASASSN-16fs in UGC 09523 was imaged at Virtual Telescope as part of a cooperation with the ASAS-SN survey (ATel 9114). The image above comes from the average of six, 120-seconds exposures, unfiltered, remotely...