With the very clear sky we had last night, it was time to image asteroid (6478) Gault and its two tails again, to check their “health”. We have found them in good shape. The image...
Exploiting a very clear sky, we made a deep image of asteroid (6478) Gault, now showing a narrow, dusty tail. We could observe its newer tail, too, as in the image below. The image above...
More than two months after the its original announcement, we observed again the dusty tail of (6478) Gault. We have found this intriguing feature in good shape. The images above come from the average of...
Comet C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto had a great meeting with the spiral galaxy NGC 2903. We could share this show with thousands of people via our live feed and here we present a stunning video...
On the night of its closest approach to the Earth, we managed to observe comet C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto again, under good sky conditions. We detected its faint ion tail. Here it is our image...
We observed (6478) Gault again, the asteroid now showing a narrow, dusty tail. We see that not only the tail is still there, but we confirm a second, short structure recently reported, pointing to...
Next 13 Feb., comet C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto will apparently meet in the sky with the stunning spiral galaxy NGC 2903. Of course, it will be a mere question of perspective, but the sight will be...
Comet C/2018 Y1 Iwamoto reached its perihelion (minimum distance from the Sun), on 6 Feb. and tomorrow will have its fly-by with the Earth, coming as close as 45 millions of km. Here it is...
On 9 Jan. 2019, the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams issued an electronic telegram reporting that the inner main belt asteroid (6478) Gault had a tail. This made the object a very important target to...
We did some follow-up observations of comet 64P/Swift-Gehrels, after the sudden changes in its inner coma, which we could confirm yesterday. Here we present our results. The image above comes from the median combination of 39,...
On 2 Jan. 2019, a couple of observers reported that comet 64P/Swift-Gehrels showed a sudden change in its inner coma. The day before, our images showed nothing strange, so we scheduled some follow-up observations...
We observed comet 123P/West-Hartley again, while it approaches the Sun (perihelion: next 5 Feb.). Here it is our latest image. The image above comes from the average of three, 300-seconds exposures, unfiltered, remotely collected with the...
We started the new year under a truly excellent sky, imaging comet 64P/Swift-Gehrels. Here we share what we saw. The image above comes from the average of six, 300-seconds exposures, unfiltered, remotely collected with the...
We managed to see comet 38P/Stephan-Oterma again, on its way back to the outer Solar System. It was a rewarding sight, as you can see from this image. The image above comes from the sigma...
– Christmas with the Comet: online observation (23 Dec. 2024)
– The Moon meets Venus (3 Jan. 2025)
– The 2025 Quadrantid meteor shower (3 Jan. 2025)
– The Moon occults Saturn (4 Jan. 2025)
RSS
