C/2006 P1 McNaught: an image of an epic comet
For sure comets are among the most impressive wonders of the natural world and when a bright one surfs the skies, there is nothing to do: everyone, everywhere, look for its light, admiring its...
Category: comets
“The turning point of comet Lovejoy: comet C/2014 Q2 at perihelion” – online observing session (30 jan. 2015)
*** Enter the LIVE event here ! *** ggg *** Enter the LIVE event here ! *** After a great show over the last weeks, on 30 Jan. 2015, comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy will...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: evolution in two days (12 vs 13 Jan. 2015)
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy has been closely monitored by the Virtual Telescope since 21 Dec. 2014, when it started showing above Italy. This comet showed a remarkable continuous evolution in its tail, as we...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: a new stunning mosaic (13 Jan. 2015)
On 13 Jan. 2015 the sky was clear again and, after the wonderful experience of the previous night, at Virtual Telescope we scheduled another three-panes mosaic to image comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy. The image...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: a stunning, high resolution view of the tail, with movie (12 Jan. 2015)
On 12 Jan. 2015, soon after the live, online observing session scheduled to show it to the world, at Virtual Telescope we imaged comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy, under very good sky conditions. The comet...
Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy: a new image (11 Jan. 2015)
On 11 Jan. 2015 we were ready to share comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy live, but the weather was cloudy and rainy, so we rescheduled our public online session for the next day. Incredibly, the...
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...
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...
