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...
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...
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...
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....
*** Enter the LIVE event here ! *** *** Enter the LIVE event here ! *** A nice comet is coming for this Christmas: it is comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy. Hopefully, it will be...
On 30 Oct. 2014, we observed comet C/2014 Q3 Borisov again. The image above comes from seven, 180-seconds unfiltered exposures, remotely collected with the PlaneWave 17″+Paramount ME+SBIG STL-6303E robotic unit part of the Virtual Telescope Project. They were...
Discovered on 22 Aug. 2014, comet C/2014 Q3 Borisov showed an interesting increase of brightness recently, at least of a couple of magnitudes. The image above shows two shots, talek one day apart. Each picture comes...
Blessed with a very good seeing, we grabbed new images of comet C/2014 Y4 Atlas, spotting its fragments and cloud debris. The image above comes from the average of 88, 60-seconds exposures, remotely taken...
New images of comet C/2014 Y4 Atlas were obtained under good seeing conditions and they show a couple of main fragments and a likely a trailing cloud of debris. The image above comes from...
After one rainy night, we are back on comet C/2014 Y4 Atlas, seeing how its evolved. Several fragments are still visible in the image below. The image above comes from the average of 46,...
Thanks to good weather, we imaged C/2014 Y4 Atlas again and could clearly detect again several fragments, with evident changes in the brightness distribution. Here it is our image. The image above comes from...
After our observations suggesting the presence of fragments in the inner coma of this comet, we imaged C/2014 Y4 Atlas every night. In particular, tonight we observed at least three fragments, telling the comet...
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,...
On 23 Oct. 2013, the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona discovered a new, apparently asteroid-like object, moving on a rather cometary orbit: it received its provisional designation 2013 UQ4. This happens from time to...
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