Some fun with comet Ison
The world has been waiting for almost one year now for comet C/2012 S1 Ison. Soon after the discovery time, the most optimistic scenarios told the comet could become very bright around its...
Author: Gianluca Masi
Comet C/2013 R1 Lovejoy: an image (10 Nov. 2013)
Comet C/2013 R1 Lovejoy is putting a nice show out there, while traveling to its perihelion. On 10 Nov. the PlaneWave 17″ robotic unit was asked to point this comet and started capturing images. Above...
Comet C/2012 S1 Ison: a new image (10 Nov. 2013)
After several days of cloudy weather, the sky was clear again at Virtual Telescope to plan some comet observing, late in the night. Of course, comet c/2012 S1 Ison was a primary target. The...
Comet C/2013 R1 Lovejoy: live observing session – 13 Nov. 2013 at 01:30 UT
Comet C/2013 R1 Lovejoy is giving a very nice show these nights. It is the brightest comet of the moment, also visible by naked eye from dark places. The Virtual telescope Project offers...
Comet P/2013 R3 Catalina-Pan-STARRS splitted: an image (5 Nov. 2013)
Comet C/2013 R3 Catalina- Pan-STARRS: 5 Nov. 2013 Last 11 and 12 Oct. 2013, comet P/2013 R3 Catalina – Pan-STARRS was reported to have splitted into four pieces. This comet is very interesting:...
Comet C/2013 R1 Lovejoy: an image (6 Nov. 2013)
The 2013 Fall season is very crowded by comets. In fact, several reasonably bright ones are around: comet C/2012 S1 Ison is keeping observers worldwide very busy, while deciding to put on a...
Comet C/2012 X1 (Linear) outburst: a new image (1 Nov. 2013) and animation
On 1 Nov. 2013, the Virtual Telescope visited comet C/2012 X1 Linear again, to cooperate in understanding its outburst event, as part of a collaboration among the Virtual Telescope Project, Remanzacco Observatory and Faulkes Telescopes...
Where is comet Ison: November 2013
Since its discovery in Sept. 2012, comet C/2012 S1 Ison attracted a lot of attention. Early evaluations of its orbit showed a great potential for a memorable show, with the most optimistic scenarios reporting...
Nova Aquilae 2013 = PNV J19023335+0315190: spectrum (29 Oct. 2013)
Updates (8 Nov. 2013): the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams has just issued the CBET 3691 Circular, announcing this object is now Nova Aquilae 2013. Our early and continued observations made possible to understand...
Near-Earth asteroid 2013 UV3: an image (28 Oct. 2013)
Near-Earth asteroid 2013 UV3 was discovered on 25 Oct. 2013, as part of the Mt. Lemmon NEO survey. This ~ 15 meters large asteroid will have a close encounter with the Earth on...
Possible Nova in Aquila = PNV J19023335+0315190: 28 Oct. 2013
Updates (29.44 Oct. 2013): we inspected POSS2, red digitized plates at the OT position. There are a few, very close 15-16 mag. stars there. Looking at the OT position provided by our astrometry, we see...
Comet C/2012 X1 (Linear) outburst: a new image (28 Oct. 2013) and animation
After the first attempt a few days ago, the Virtual Telescope visited comet C/2012 X1 Linear again, to cooperate in understanding its outburst event, as part of a collaboration among the Virtual Telescope...
Comet C/2012 X1 (Linear) outburst: image analysis
As reported a few days ago, comet C/2012 X1 Linear is undergoing a bright outburst (but not enough to make it visible by naked eye). The Virtual Telescope managed to capture a few images...
Supernova SN 2013fw (ex PSN J21134481+1334335) in NGC 7042: image and spectroscopy (23/25 Oct. 2013)
Updates (30 Oct. 2013): the object received its official desigation SN 2013fw and our photometry and spectroscopic identification is reported on the CBET 3681 from the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams. Here it is...
