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Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina: 12 Dec. 2015

Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina: an image (12 Dec. 2015)

Nine days after our previous, first visit, we spied comet C/2013 US10 Catalina again, under significantly better geometry, that is with the comet a few more degrees above the horizon (though still far from the ideal)....

Comet 44P/Reinmuth: 06 Nov. 2015

Comet 44P/Reinmuth: an image (06 Nov. 2015)

On 6 Nov. 2015, at Virtual Telescope we imaged comet 44P/Reinmuth, a Jupiter-family comet that is greatly perturbed by Jupiter. The image above comes from the average of ten, 180-seconds exposures, unfiltered, remotely collected with the  PlaneWave...

Comet 81P/Wild: 06 Nov. 2015

Comet 81P/Wild: an image (06 Nov. 2015)

On 6 Nov. 2015, at Virtual Telescope we imaged comet 81P/Wild: this object was visited in 2004 by the Nasa’s Stardust space mission. The image above comes from the average of five, 180-seconds exposures, unfiltered, remotely...