Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster imaged and filmed! – 8 Feb. 2018
Here it is an image of the Tesla Roadster on its way around the Sun. It will move between 147 and 260 millions of km from our star. AMAZING! Here it is the Elon Musk’s...
Category: satellite
The International Space Station (ISS) meets Jupiter: 12 April 2017
This evening, it was possible to see from Rome the International Space Station (ISS) doing a wonderful transit, ending its trail a few degrees away from planet Jupiter. It was a truly outstanding experience....
Io eclipses Europa: report of another mutual event among Galilean satellites (30 Mar. 2015)
After the very successful coverage of the 11 Mar. 2015 mutual event, at Virtual Telescope we planned to cover another one happening among Jupiter’s satellites on 30 Mar. 2015, in order to contribute to...
Europa eclipses Io: report of a “foreign” eclipse (11 Mar. 2015)
While we are all waiting for the next 20 Mar. solar eclipse, another world is showing amazing shadow plays: Jupiter and its satellites. While eclipses on Jupiter by its moons are quite common, what...
“Shadows around Jupiter: Callisto eclipses Ganymede” – online event (2 April 2015)
an official event for Global Astronomy Month (April 2015) *** Join it LIVE here! *** These months, thanks to favorable geometrical conditions, we are enjoying mutual occultations and eclipses among the Galilean satellites. Some of these events...
Ganymede eclipses Europa (12 Aug. 2009): truly rare!
This amazing movie was made using a great number of images collected with the Celestron C14 robotic unit available as part of Virtual Telescope Project, at dawn on Aug 12, 2009. It shows Ganymede...
Asteroid 2012 QG42 and an artificial satellite
While preparing for a session on asteroid 2012 QG42, a test image was taken with the Planewave 17” unit part of theVirtual Telescope. The asteroid showed as a little trail, while there was a...
