Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: a stunning mosaic (10 Jan. 2015)
Finally, comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy is a true northern object. After so many weeks of great show in the southern skies, it slowly climbed the heavens and now is very well visible by those...
Category: comets
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: a spectacular live, online event and a new stunning image (06 Jan. 2015)
As promptly scheduled last year, at Virtual Telescope we shared comet C/2014 Q2 live, online, showing it in real time through the powerful eyes of our robotic telescopes. The live feed was a huge...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: a new image (05 Jan. 2015)
On 5 Jan. 2015, after a couple of cloudy nights, the sky was still clear again and at Virtual Telescope we planned another imaging session of comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy. The Moon was full,...
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: an image (01 Jan. 2015)
On 1 Jan. 2015, at Virtual Telescope we started the new year imaging comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy, despite an extremely bright, waxing Moon was very high in the sky and not far from the...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: an image (31 Dec. 2014)
On 31 Dec. 2014, despite the very bright Moon, we imaged comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy again, few hours before celebrating the end of the year and the start of the new one. The benefits...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: a comparison panel (22 to 29 Dec. 2014)
While comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy is getting better and better for us in the northern hemisphere, we managed to put together all the four images captured via The Virtual Telescope. The panel above shows...
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...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: an image (28 Dec. 2014)
On 28 Dec. 2014 the sky was very clear, despite a setting first quarter o f the Moon, so we imaged comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy again. The image above comes from the average of...
Where is it in the sky comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy? A star chart
Now that comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy is finally coming to visit us, here under the northern stars, a lot of curious people are preparing for look at this comet, perfectly synchronized with the Christmas...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: an image (26 Dec. 2014)
After our first sights of this amazing, promising comet,. at Virtual Telescope we spied comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy again, while it climbs our northern skies, becoming better and better night after night. On 26...
Comet 15P/Finlay meets planet Mars: an image (23 Dec. 2014)
After the historic very close encounter between comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring and Mars last Oct., another comet met planet Mars again, this time only apparently. It is comet 15P/Finlay, recently gone in outburst,...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: an image (22 Dec. 2014)
Those living under the northern stars have been waiting for it for so long. Now, comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy is climbing to the northern skies, after giving an amazing show in the austral heavens....
Comet 15P/Finlay: an image (19 Dec. 2014)
A couple of days ago, astronomers observing from Argentina reported that comet 15P/Finlay was significantly brighter than previously reporting, suggesting an ongoing outburst. This was later confirmed by observers in Australia and from southern...
