04/18/2017 - The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2014 JO25: 17 Apr. 2017

asteroid / near Earth / Potentially Hazardous Asteroid

04/18/2017

Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2014 JO25: an image (17 Apr. 2017)

While waiting for its safe close encounter next 19 Apr., we imaged the potentially hazardous asteroid 2014 JO25, while it was still relatively faint and low above the horizon. The image above comes from...

comets

04/18/2017

Comet C/2017 E4 Lovejoy: an image (17 Apr. 2017)

Comet C/2017 E4 Lovejoy is now clearly fading and we continue imaging it while it travel to its perihelion. The image above comes from the sigma clipping combination of twelve, 60-seconds exposures, unfiltered, remotely taken with...