Near-Earth asteroid 2015 GK: an image (12 Apr. 2015)
On 13 April 2015, the near-Earth asteroid 2015 GK will make a very close encounter with our planet. This ~30 meters large asteroid will reach a minimum distance from us of about 1.1 millions...
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“Stars for All!”: online cosmic journey – 16 April 2015
an official event for Global Astronomy Month (April 2015) *** Join it LIVE here! *** Join this fabulous live online observing event from the Virtual Telescope in Italy, hosted by Dr. Gianluca Masi! Join us as we...
4 April total Lunar Eclipse: report and podcast from an amazing event
The sky did not fail, once again, to amaze all of us, last 4 April. That day, a lunar eclipse was expected. It was mainly announced as a grazing total one: the full coverage...
“Shadows around Jupiter: Callisto eclipses Ganymede“ online event: podcast and results
Finally, Global Astronomy Month 215 arrived. Another full month, for the 7th year in a row, to celebrate the wonders of the sky, both at night and day, looking up into the Universe, without...
Supernova 2015G (PSN J20372558+6607115) in NGC 6951: an image (31 Mar. 2015)
NB: on 2 April 1015, CBAT officially announced on CBET 4087 this supernova as SN 2015G, reporting our observations. The image above shows supernova PSN J20372558+6607115 in the beautiful, barred spiral galaxy NGC 6951....
Near-Earth asteroid 2015 FW117: an image (31 Mar. 2015)
On 1 April 2015, the near-Earth asteroid 2015 FW117 will make a very close encounter with our planet. This ~100 meters large asteroid will reach a minimum distance from us of a bit less than...
Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring: an image (31 Mar. 2015)
After more than one month from our previous visit, at Virtual Telescope we observed comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring again. This comety made history last October, when it approached planet Mars within a very...
Io eclipses Europa: report of another mutual event among Galilean satellites (30 Mar. 2015)
After the very successful coverage of the 11 Mar. 2015 mutual event, at Virtual Telescope we planned to cover another one happening among Jupiter’s satellites on 30 Mar. 2015, in order to contribute to...
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...
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...
