After a couple of years since our previous visit, we imaged comet 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann again, covering its evolution for a couple of nights, after one of its typical outbursts. Each of the three images above...
A new image of comet 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann was captured during its recent outburst and shows a very interesting coma. * NB: versione in Italiano qui * The image above comes from the average of seven, 300-seconds exposures, unfiltered, remotely collected...
After three months from our previous observation, we imaged comet 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann again, while it was in one of its frequent and interesting outbursts. * NB: versione in Italiano qui * The image above comes from the average...
Comet 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann is one of the most studied dirty snowballs out there, as it shows frequent outburst, making it a unique object. We observed this comet many times over the year, but quite oddly...
We managed to follow-up comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann and its recently discovered fragment bt. A nice comet to monitor over the next months. After our images from 16 Feb. 2017, the new fragment (labelled “bt”) of comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann was...
On 10 February 2017, a new fragment of comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann has been discovered. It is now known as 73P bt. This comet is used to fragmentation, as we know especially after its 2006 passage. The...
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