NGC 5866: Messier 102?
As soon as everyone starts learning about the sky and its most beautiful objects, she/he learn about the Messier catalogue. This very famous list includes more than one hundred deep sky gems including galaxies,...
Author: Gianluca Masi
Partial Lunar Eclipse: 25 April 2013
Next event: “Partial Lunar Eclipse” – 25 Apr. 2013, 19:30 UT [advanced_iframe securitykey=”4ca32ca5dd0a687beca862dacb8dd1a8769b1f01″] Support The Virtual Telescope Project! Support us! Please, donate and receive an EXCLUSIVE, image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and many...
Northern Virginia Astronomy Club and Virtual Telescope STAR PARTY!: 14 April 2013
** To join the LIVE event, click here! ** On 14 April, starting at 23:15 UT, the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club (NOVAC) will offer you a unique chance to explore cosmic landscapes from the...
“Walking on the Moon”: 18 Apr. 2013, 19:00 UT
*** Join it LIVE here! *** During Global Astronomy Month (GAM2013, April 2013) you can reach the Moon from home! Just join our remote, online lunar observing session and have fun with plenty of...
Quasar APM 08279+5255: a low-res spectrum and redshift
After the very positive results with quasar 3C 273, we tried to get a spectrum of APM 08279+5255. This quasar is shining at mag. 15.2 and is located at a distance of 12 billions...
![Quasar [HB89] 1758+388](https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/hb89_18mar2010-520x245.jpg?x60483)
Once upon a time in a quasar far, far away…
Few things are able to capture the imagination of stargazers as the idea of distance of a cosmic object. While looking at that likely pale spot of light, so hard to see with their...
Possible supernova PSN J18250198+2731537 in NGC 6632 (3 Apr. 2013)
The Virtual Telescope imaged the supernova candidate PSN J18250198+2731537 in NGC 6632, originally reported on 24 mar. 2013 by Z. Jin and X. Gao, China and still spectroscopically unconfirmed. The hosing galaxy is peculiar as it...
The exploding Universe: the realm of Supernovae – online event!
To join the LIVE event click here !!! Always at the first place in the world sharing the wonders of the Universe, with online, free observing sessions, the Virtual Telescope Project is very proud...
Supernova SN 2013aj in NGC 5339: 4 Apr. 2013
Supernova SN 2013aj was discovered on 3 mar. 2013 in the nice, face-on barred spiral galaxy NGC 5339, located at about 120 millions of light years from us. We observed it about one month...
Supernova SN 2013ab in NGC 5669: spectrum and image (3 Apr. 2013)
Supernova SN 2013ab exploded in NGC 5669 and peaked at about mag. 14.8. The Virtual Telescope system was used to take and image and a low res spectrum of the star, using both the...
Supernova SN 2013am in Messier 65: updates (3 Apr. 2013)
A supernova was recently discovered in the bright galaxy Messier 65; the Virtual Telescope helped confirming it while it was still waiting for an official designation. It is named SN 2013am and resulted to be a type...
Comet C/2012 S1 Ison: 3 Apr. 2013 image
Comet C/2012 S1 “Ison” is still continuously monitored by astronomers worldwide, waiting for its potentially bright apparition later this year. The Virtual Telescope Project visited it again, after the full Moon moved away. The...
Cosmic Encounter: comet Pan-STARRS meets the Great Andromeda Galaxy
While leaving the inner Solar System, comet Pan-STARRS continues surfing our skies and next 4 Apr. 2013 it will cross the spot of the sky where Messier 31, the Great Andromeda Galaxy, is. Of...
NGC 6992 – Cyg
NGC 6992 is part of the famous “Veil Nebula”, the remnant of a supernova exploded about 10.000 years ago. Its distance is estimated in about 1500 light years and it is in the same...
