As part of its scientific activities, the Virtual Telescope provides follow-up of supernova candidates. On 28 Aug. 2013, the PlaneWave 17″ unit was slewed to IC 221, locating the suspect PSN J02224207+2816012 and confirming it...
As part of its scientific activities, the Virtual Telescope provides follow-up of supernova candidates. On 27 Aug. 2013, the PlaneWave 17″ unit was slewed to NGC 6956, locating the suspect PSN J20435357+1230517 and confirming it...
Those loving stargazing are well aware of Messier 57, one of the most beautiful deep sky objects. Quite interesting, this famous nebula is apparently close to a galaxy, IC 1296. This is a...
On Aug. 2013, the PlaneWave 17″ robotic unit part of the Virtual Telescope Project imaged supernova SN 2013dy, after that a couple of days earlier the Celestron c14 robotic unit succeeded capturing a spectrum of the...
On 2 Aug. 2013, the Celestron c14 robotic unit was remotely slewed to supernova SN 2013dy, in NGC 7250. This is a type Ia supernova, so it was interesting to see if the typical...
Above is an animation showing the supernova SN 2013ej in Messier 74 blinking: it compares a recent shot with an archive frame, dating back in 2012. The effect is spectacular: the SN seems to jump...
On 25.5 July 2013 the Lick Observatory Supernova Search reported a possible supernova in Messier 74. On 28.02 July, the Celestron c14 robotic unit was slewed to that transient, confirming it, despite the very strong...
On 15 July 2013 the Virtual Telescope’s 17-inches main robotic unit was remotely slewed to confirm a supernova candidate, PSN J10015683+5541440, reported by the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams. It was a difficult target, as...
On 17 June, 2013, the Virtual Telescope main, robotic unit (PlaneWave 17″) imaged this supernova candidate, collecting three, 300-seconds images. The object appeared very well. At that time, the supernova was undesigned, our observations...
On 8.9 June, 2013, the Virtual Telescope main, robotic unit (PlaneWave 17″) imaged this supernova candidate, collecting three, 120-seconds images. The object appeared very well. At that time, the supernova was undesigned, our observations...
On 6 June, 2013, the Virtual Telescope main, robotic unit (PlaneWave 17″) imaged this supernova candidate, collecting three, 120-seconds images. The hosting galaxy (UGC 5315) was about 30 deg above the horizon. The transient...
The Virtual Telescope imaged this optical transient with its 17″ robotic unit, finding it at magnitude 18.9 unfiltered. This transient is showing in the ultraluminuos infrared galaxy NGC 6240, located at about 400 millions...
On May 17, 2013, the Virtual Telescope Project hosted a special online event, sharing in real time images of several supernovae. They are among the most intriguing and spectacular objects in the Universe, with...
Supernova candidate PSN J12454418-1050083 in the galaxy MCG -02-33-4 was discovered by the Catalina Real-Time Transient Survey on May 13. A few hours later, the Virtual Telescope confirmed it, as visible from the image above. At...
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