Comet C/2015 V2 Johnson: an image (25 Feb. 2017)
Comet C/2015 V2 Johnson is an old friend of the Virtual Telescope. Almost one year and half after our only observation of this comet, we managed to look at it again. The image above...
Daily Archive: February 26, 2017
Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann and its bt fragment: 25 Feb. 2017
We managed to follow-up comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann and its recently discovered fragment bt. A nice comet to monitor over the next months. After our images from 16 Feb. 2017, the new fragment (labelled “bt”) of comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann was...
Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova: an image (25 Feb. 2017)
After our first visit, we looked for comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova again, while it is constantly fading. We captured a large, still interesting coma. The image above comes from the average of ten, 120-seconds exposures, unfiltered, remotely...
