The Geminid Meteor Shower 2020: online event – 13 Dec. 2020
Next 13/14 Dec. 2020, the Geminid meteors will put their great show back in the sky. This year, the Moon will be new, so we have the best, darkest conditions for a memorable experience:...
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The Geminid Meteor Shower 2019: online event – 14 Dec. 2019
*** Enter the LIVE event here ! *** *** Enter the LIVE event here ! *** Next 13/14 Dec. 2019, the spectacular Geminid meteor shower will be back with its show. The winter, cold...
Geminids 2017, what a memorable show for our community!
Yesterday night, the Geminids meteor shower peak was absolutely spectacular to see. We could show the best meteors show of 2017 to the world, thanks to our wide field cameras in Italy and Arizona....
Measuring the distance of (3200) Phaethon: the fashion of parallax
Measuring the distance of an asteroid with some basic mathematics is always fun. With asteroid (3200) Phaethon making a nice apparition out there, we could not resist and we exploited one of the many...
Geminids meteor shower and Phaethon put on a great show: join it with the Virtual Telescope!
***SEE The Geminid Meteor Shower LIVE HERE!*** The Geminids meteors are ready to offer us an amazing shower, the best of this year, while their parent body, the potentially hazardous asteroid (3200) Phaethon, reaches its minimum...
The unique asteroid 3200 Phaethon: bright 2017 apparition – see it online!
***SEE asteroid Phaethon LIVE HERE!*** Among the asteroids, 3200 Phaethon stands out for a number of reasons. Discovered on 11 Oct. 1983, it was the first one to be discovered on images coming from...
The Geminid Meteor Shower 2014: online event – 14 Dec. 2014
*** Enter the LIVE event here ! *** *** Enter the LIVE event here ! *** Next 14 Dec. 2014, the spectacular Geminid meteor shower will be back with its spectacular show. The winter,...
