We continue following up comet 46P/Wirtanen, still a great sight up there. We are pleased to share with you our latest image. * NB: versione in Italiano qui * The image above comes from the average of...
Il nuovo anno ci regalerà subito una splendida eclissi totale di Luna, il prossimo 21 gennaio. Essa sarà osservabile quasi completamente dall’Italia, soprattutto dagli insonni, visto che si verificherà nella seconda parte della notte....
After its long-awaited flyby with the Earth, comet 46P/Wirtanen is now slowly moving away from both our planet and the Sun, but it will be a nice views for several weeks to come. Here...
Comet 46P/Wirtaten is ready to have its long-awaited close encounter with the Earth later today, here it is an image we grabbed last night. * NB: versione in Italiano qui * The image above comes from the...
Comet 123P/West-Hartley orbits the Sun with a period of 7.6 years. Its next perihelion will be on 5 Feb. 2019. With this image, we started monitoring it. The image above comes from the average of...
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...
Comet 64P/Swift-Gehrels reached its perihelion early last Nov.: here it is an image, showing it well active. The image above comes from the average of five, 180-seconds exposures, unfiltered, remotely collected with the “Elena” (PlaneWave 17″+Paramount...
Comet 38P/Stephan-Oterma orbits the Sun with a period of 38 years. Its last perihelion was last 10 November. Here it is an image we captured last night. * NB: versione in Italiano qui * The image above comes...
On its perihelion eve, we grabbed new images of comet 46P/Wirtanen, enjoying its huge coma as usual. Here it is our image. The image above comes from the average of twelve, 180-seconds exposures, unfiltered, remotely...
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...
This is the week of comet 46P/Wirtanen: in the next days it will reach the perihelion (12 Dec., minimum distance from the Sun) and will have its fly-by with the Earth (16 Dec.). We will...
We imaged comet 46P/Wirtanen again on 8 Dec. 2018, under very good sky conditions and we are pleased to share this new close-up of the comet with you. * NB: versione in Italiano qui * The image...
Comet 46P/Wirtanen was imaged again via the Virtual Telescope, now that is constantly improving its visibility. Here it is what we saw. The image above comes from the average of six, 180-seconds exposures, unfiltered, remotely...
On 7 Dec. 2018, planets Mars and Neptune had a very close conjunction, coming closer than 2 arcminutes. A few hours later, we could image them, also grabbing Triton, the largest satellite of Neptune....
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