20 March 2015 solar eclipse: simulated view from Rome
The image above shows a simulated view of the upcoming 20 March 2015 solar eclipse as seen from Rome, Italy. Below, a video of the eclipse is provided, too. The center of the video...
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C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: a new image (12 Mar. 2015)
After almost three months (a full season!), at Virtual Telescope we are always tracking comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy, one of the most beautiful objects of this kind we have seen around these last years....
Europa eclipses Io: report of a “foreign” eclipse (11 Mar. 2015)
While we are all waiting for the next 20 Mar. solar eclipse, another world is showing amazing shadow plays: Jupiter and its satellites. While eclipses on Jupiter by its moons are quite common, what...
NGC 3079 and PSN J10011805+5546169: an image (9 Mar. 2015)
There are things that never fail to show they are true. One of them is that every time you slew a telescope to an apparently anonymous patch of the sky, following up a faint...
“Shadows around Jupiter: Callisto eclipses Ganymede” – online event (2 April 2015)
an official event for Global Astronomy Month (April 2015) *** Join it LIVE here! *** These months, thanks to favorable geometrical conditions, we are enjoying mutual occultations and eclipses among the Galilean satellites. Some of these events...
Online Messier Marathon – 7th edition! – 22 April 2015
an official event for Global Astronomy Month (April 2015) *** Join it LIVE here! *** Would you like to explore the many treasures of the famous Messier Catalogue from home? Would you like to...
4 April 2015: Total Lunar Eclipse – live event, online!
*** Join it LIVE here! *** an official event for Global Astronomy Month (April 2015) *** Join it LIVE here! *** Next 4 April 2015, the Moon will offer an amazing total eclipse, well visible from the Americas,...
C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: a new mosaic (23 Feb. 2015)
A new image of comet was recently taken via the Virtual Telescope, thanks to an unexpected short window of clear sky; so, we continue our amazing coverage we provided for more than two months now. The image...
Messier 101 and a (likely) supernova impostor
Messier 101 surely is one of the most beautiful spiral galaxies out there. Because of its relative proximity (about 20 millions of light years), its face-on geometry and the elegance of its arm, the...
IC 983, NGC 5490 and PSN J14095513+1731556: an image (19 Feb. 2015)
Recently, while following-up a recently discovered optical transient, PSN J14095513+1731556 – turned out to be a supernova – we spied a nice spot of the sky where, all around the supernova and its host galaxy (NGC...
Comet 32P/Comas Solà: an image (18 Feb. 2015)
Among the comets visible this time of the year, there is comet 32P/Comas Solà, discovered in 1926 by Josep Comas Solà, Barcelona. Since then, it has been observed at every return, every ~8.5 years....
C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: a new mosaic (18 Feb. 2015)
A new image of comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy was taken last night via the Virtual Telescope, continuing the amazing coverage we provided over the last almost two months. The image above comes from the average...
Near-Earth Asteroid 2015 DB: an extremely close encounter
At Virtual Telescope, we are always interested to track close approaching asteroids, especially when they come quite close and are difficult to image. Our robotic system has proven to be one of the best...
Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring: an image (18 Feb. 2015)
You should remember this comet, C/2013 A1 Siding Spring. It made history last October, when it approached planet Mars within a very short, record distance, under our eyes. After a few months after our...
