The Dec. 2022 planetary parade: a stunning show – 28 Dec. 2022
We could see all the planets of our Solar System at a glance and shared the experience with the community worldwide. Here we present our best images. From time to time, we can see...
Tagged: Jupiter
The Moon and Jupiter meet in the sky – 8 Oct. 2022
Last night, the Moon and planet Jupiter had a nice conjunction. Despite an almost cloudy sky, we could capture them from Rome and here we share our image. I used a Canon 5D mark...
The International Space Station and a colourful Jupiter corona – 2 Oct. 2022
The sky always amazes us much more than our expectations. This also happened earlier this month, when we spotted the International Space Station moving into the Earth shadow while planet Jupiter was showing a...
The rare June 2022 five planets parade: a memorable experience from Rome (21, 25 & 26 June 2022)
All the five naked eye planets showed at a glance this June, at dawn, offering the rare opportunity to see all of them, in the same order of their increasing distance from the Sun....
Venus kisses Jupiter: a stunning conjunction at dawn – 1 May 2022
On Labor Day, the sky asked for an extra work: Venus and Jupiter were meeting up in the sky and we wanted to enjoy it. The view was superb and we share it with...
“Venus kisses Jupiter”, a spectacular conjunction – live event (01 May 2022)
Next 01 May 2022, the brightest planets Venus and Jupiter will offer us a spectacular conjunction at dawn. We will show you it live, online. Such a stunning conjunction happens from time to time...
Four Planets, the Moon and two space stations: a stunning view above Rome – 27 Apr. 2022
This morning, I could really enjoy the wonderful planetary parade visible at dawn, plus the Moon. And a very special bonus were the transits of both the International Space Station and the Chinese Tianhe-1...
Jupiter and Saturn’s great conjunction: images of a historic event – 21 Dec. 2020
Last week, we witnessed something unique: a very close conjunction between the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn. More than one million individuals worldwide joined our live feed, here we share our best images. We...
Jupiter and Saturn are closer and closer – 19 Dec. 2020
Two days before their historic conjunction, Jupiter and Saturn were a stunning sight, despite the poor and bright sky. Here it is our latest view. The image above comes from a single 1-second, blue...
Jupiter and Saturn prepare their epic show – 16 Dec. 2020
While waiting for their epic conjunction, Jupiter and Saturn are slowly approaching each other up there. Here we present a few images we did. Over the past few days, I managed to get a...
The Moon visits the giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn – 19 Nov. 2020
On 19 Nov. 2020, the Moon met Jupiter and Saturn, at sunset: here we share a few images from Rome of that magic rendez-vous. After the super meeting a few days ago at dawn...
The 2020 Jupiter – Saturn great conjunction: online observation – 21 Dec. 2020.
Next 21 Dec. 2020, when we will welcome the Winter Solstice, the sky will offer us a extremely rare event: an exceptionally close, great conjunction between planets Jupiter and Saturn. They have not been...
Vernal Equinox: the Jupiter-Mars conjunction welcomes the new season – 20 Mar. 2020
Today (exactly on 20 March 2020, at 03:50 UTC) our Sun, in its apparent motion along the Ecliptic, crossed the Celestial Equator from South to North: for this reason, we celebrate the Vernal Equinox....
The Moon, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn: a celestial meeting from my balcony – 19 Mar. 2020
The Moon made a nice meeting with planets Jupiter, Mars and Saturn, early today at dawn. I managed to capture the group from my balcony in Rome. I managed to wake up on time...
