It was a cold day, that far 17 Jan. 1985, with the snow still around after a serious snowfall earlier that year. A very young guy, you would say a a child, was spasmodically...
For sure, Messier 42, the Great Orion Nebula, is on the podium of the most observed deep sky object out there. To the point that it is almost impossible to resist to image it,...
In eight years, we presented the Universe to millions. Now you can help us to do it much better. Important Note: following the input from several of you, we had to restart the campaign,...
*** We need your support, so you are welcome to help us by donations here. *** 20 August 2006 – 20 August 2014: eight full years. Soon after calculating that, I stopped for a while...
We recently installed for testing an all-sky camera at the Virtual Telescope site, with the intention to monitor the sky both for clouds and meteors/fireballs. Fist tests were very promising and last night we...
At Virtual Telescope we are testing an all-sky camera to make possible for us to look at the whole sky, both for weather checking and for further astronomical purposes. Of course, before opening and...
Next 21 June 2014, at 10:51 Universal Time, the Sun will reach its maximum declination (angular distance from the celestial equator): this will officially be the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. In that...
The Cosmos out there is full of beauty. Even to the naked eyes, stargazing is always a wonderful trip: looking up, pushing your sight far deep both in space and time is a mind-blow...
It is hard to comment last night event, covering the first eclipse of 2014, a total lunar one. Perhaps the best thing to say is that it was something we will not forget. For...
Last night, at Virtual Telescope we used a short break in the cloud coverage to confirm some possible supernovae. This is a field where the Virtual Telescope really does a great job: over the...
asteroid / event / free / near Earth / StarWords
It is hard to comment the recent asteroid 2014 DX110 online event, after the unprecedented, huge success of our live coverage. Well, we are honestly used to a large participation, but this time numbers...
asteroid / event / free / near Earth / StarWords
Above is a movie showing the 30-meters large near-Earth asteroid 2014 DX110 just around the time of its minimum distance from the Earth (about 350.000 km). 102 images were taken back to back,...
*** See these near-Earth asteroids live with us! *** Asteroids are truly fascinating objects. They are the leftover of the pristine material dominating the early Solar System, at times when the planets were just...
Every time the Virtual Telescope’s birthday approaches, I feel a special feeling, a unique emotion: I could not imagine, that far 20 Aug. 2006, that this project was going to make history in the...
– Near-Earth Asteroids 2024 JN16 (14 May 2024)
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