Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: a new image (05 Jan. 2015)
On 5 Jan. 2015, after a couple of cloudy nights, the sky was still clear again and at Virtual Telescope we planned another imaging session of comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy. The Moon was full,...
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C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: a new image (02 Jan. 2015)
On 2 Jan. 2015, the sky was still clear and at Virtual Telescope we planned another imaging session of comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy. The Moon was truly extremely bright, producing so bad conditions that generally no...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: an image (01 Jan. 2015)
On 1 Jan. 2015, at Virtual Telescope we started the new year imaging comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy, despite an extremely bright, waxing Moon was very high in the sky and not far from the...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: an image (31 Dec. 2014)
On 31 Dec. 2014, despite the very bright Moon, we imaged comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy again, few hours before celebrating the end of the year and the start of the new one. The benefits...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: a comparison panel (22 to 29 Dec. 2014)
While comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy is getting better and better for us in the northern hemisphere, we managed to put together all the four images captured via The Virtual Telescope. The panel above shows...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: a new image (29 Dec. 2014)
On 29 Dec. 2014, despite the bright waxing Moon, we imaged comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy again. The image above comes from the average of seven, 120-seconds unfiltered exposures, remotely collected with the PlaneWave 17″+Paramount ME+SBIG...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: an image (28 Dec. 2014)
On 28 Dec. 2014 the sky was very clear, despite a setting first quarter o f the Moon, so we imaged comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy again. The image above comes from the average of...
Where is it in the sky comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy? A star chart
Now that comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy is finally coming to visit us, here under the northern stars, a lot of curious people are preparing for look at this comet, perfectly synchronized with the Christmas...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: an image (26 Dec. 2014)
After our first sights of this amazing, promising comet,. at Virtual Telescope we spied comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy again, while it climbs our northern skies, becoming better and better night after night. On 26...
Comet 15P/Finlay meets planet Mars: an image (23 Dec. 2014)
After the historic very close encounter between comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring and Mars last Oct., another comet met planet Mars again, this time only apparently. It is comet 15P/Finlay, recently gone in outburst,...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: an image (22 Dec. 2014)
Those living under the northern stars have been waiting for it for so long. Now, comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy is climbing to the northern skies, after giving an amazing show in the austral heavens....
NGC 157 – Cet
Cetus is a huge constellation crossing the skies in Autumn/early Winter for northern observers. Its stars are not among the brightest ones, so its shape is only known to experienced observers. It hosts a...
Supernova ASASSN-14lp in NGC 4666: an image (21 Dec. 2014)
On 9 Dec. 2014 the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN), using data from the quadruple 14-cm “Brutus” telescope in Haleakala, detected a probable supernova in NGC 4666. This transient was designed ASASSN-14lp. Later, it was...
Supernova SN 2014dt in Messier 61: a new image (21 Dec. 2014)
After almost two months, at Virtual Telescope we visited supernova SN 2014dt and its hosting galaxy Messier 61 again. The picture comes from the average of two, 180-seconds exposures, remotely collected with the PlaneWave 17″+Paramount ME+SBIG STL-6303E...
