Comet Pan-STARRS is heading north!
The waiting is almost over. After more than one year of promises and hopes for a great show, comet C/2011 Pan-STARRS is ready to jump in the northern skies. Since it was discovered...
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“Meteorite sulla Russia” – Cose dell’Altro Geo
[fvplayer src=”https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/video/CoseAltroGeo27feb2013b.flv”]Rai Tre, “Cose dell’altro Geo”, 27 Febbraio 2013 Back to “Podcast” page Support The Virtual Telescope Project! Support us! Please, donate and receive an EXCLUSIVE, image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and many...
“Età e vita del Sole” – Cose dell’Altro Geo
[fvplayer src=”https://www.virtualtelescope.eu/video/CoseAltroGeo27feb2013a.flv”]Rai Tre, “Cose dell’altro Geo”, 27 Febbraio 2013 Back to “Podcast” page Support The Virtual Telescope Project! Support us! Please, donate and receive an EXCLUSIVE, image of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and many...
Online Messier Marathon – 5th edition! – 17 April 2013
an official event for Global Astronomy Month (April 2013) *** Join it LIVE here! *** Would you like to explore the many treasures of the famous Messier Catalogue from home? Would you like to...
Asteroide 2012 DA14: un passaggio da record
Registrazione evento online del 15 febbraio 2013, in occasione del passaggio dell’asteroide 2012 DA14. Una collaborazione tra “Ansa Scienza&Tecnica” e “Virtual Telescope Project”. Back to “Podcast” page Support The Virtual Telescope Project! Support...
Asteroid 2012 DA14 very close encounter: an exceptional sequence
Last night, asteroid 2012 DA14 did its exceptional close passage, reaching on 15 Feb. at 19:25 UT a minimum distance of about 27500 km from the surface of our planet. The Virtual Telescope planned...
Amazing, bright bolide over Russia!
While the world is waiting for asteroid 2012 DA14 later today, something spectacular happened in Russia a few hours ago (about 15 Feb. 2013, 03:30UT), above the city of Chelyabinsk. A very bright fireball...
Quasar 3C 273: a low-res spectrum and redshift
Recently, the Celestron C14 robotic unit has been equipped with a SA100 diffraction grating, making possible easy, low-res spectroscopy. After a couple of successful tests, we managed to measure the red-shift of quasar 3C...
Asteroid 2012 DA14: path in the sky from Italy
Questa carta mostra il percorso nel cielo dell’asteroide 2012 DA14 la sera del 15 Febbraio, così come visibile da Milano, Roma e Palermo. Le posizioni sono state accuratamente calcolate tenendo conto degli effetti dell’attrazione...
Nova Cephei 2013: low-res spectrum
The Virtual Telescope observed Nova Cep 2013 recently and, in addition to ordinary imaging, we performed low-res spectroscopy, remotely using the Celestron C14 robotic unit, equipped with a 100 lines/mm grating. Spectroscopy was very...
Nova in Cepheus: Feb. 2013
Last 2 Feb. 2013, K.Nishiyama and F. Kabashima (Japan) reported the discovery of a possible nova in Cepheus. This star is well located in the sky for northern observers at the beginning of the night....
Virtual Telescope serendipitously confirms a nova candidate in M81!
During the tests performed these last nights at the Virtual Telescope while fine tuning the new software recently installed, we were lucky enough to serendipitously capture a nova (not a supernova) candidate in Messier...
Software upgraded at the Virtual Telescope: 6 Feb. 2013
A nova inM81 was serendipitously grasped in M81: check it out! Last night, we managed to properly configure our robotic telescopes, after installing the new TheSkyX software suite. Thomas Bisque, from Software Bisque (the manufacturer...
Upgrading the software suite at the Virtual Telescope: 1 feb. 2013
The Virtual Telescope Project is always working hard to keep all its systems up-to-date, in order to assure those amazing performances and reliability making it a reference in the world. Thanks to the support...
