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Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: 02 Jan. 2015

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: 29 Dec. 2014

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...