The Jan. 2025 Planetary Parade: images and podcast
We are pleased to share some images of the ongoing planetary parade, with six planets visibile at a glance, taken from our robotic facility in Italy. We also provide the podcast of our live...
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The Moon occults Saturn: 4 Jan. 2025.
We observed the rare occultation of Saturn by the Moon, covering the whole event. Here it is an image summarizing our experience. The image above comes from the combination of several exposures, remotely taken...
The Moon occults Saturn: online observation – 4 Jan. 2025.
Next 4 Jan. 2025, the Moon will offer us an amazing show: the occultation of Saturn, the ringed planet. The Virtual Telescope Project will share this wonderful event live, online. We are proud to...
The 21 Aug. 2024 occultation of Saturn by the Moon: video
We are happy to present the time-lapse showing the 21 Aug. 2024 lunar occultation of Saturn, at the time shared live one our platform. The Virtual Telescope Project shared the 21 Aug. 2024 lunar...
The Moon occults Saturn: online observation – 21 Aug. 2024.
Next 21 Aug. 2024, the Moon will occult Saturn, the ringed planet, offering an amazing show. The Virtual Telescope Project will share this wonderful event live, online. We are pleased to offer to the...
Venus meets Saturn: a planetary conjunction – live event (22 Jan. 2023)
Next 22 Jan. 2023, planet Venus, the brightest object in the sky after the Sun and the Moon, will have a close conjunction with Saturn, the Lord of the Rings. We will show you this...
The Dec. 2022 planetary parade: a stunning show – 28 Dec. 2022
We could see all the planets of our Solar System at a glance and shared the experience with the community worldwide. Here we present our best images. From time to time, we can see...
Saturn 2022, the Ringed Planet at opposition: online observation – 16 Aug. 2022
On 14 Aug. 2022, Saturn, the Ringed Planet, will be at opposition, being visible at its best. We will show it live, online. Saturn is one of the most beautiful gems of the natural...
The rare June 2022 five planets parade: a memorable experience from Rome (21, 25 & 26 June 2022)
All the five naked eye planets showed at a glance this June, at dawn, offering the rare opportunity to see all of them, in the same order of their increasing distance from the Sun....
Four Planets, the Moon and two space stations: a stunning view above Rome – 27 Apr. 2022
This morning, I could really enjoy the wonderful planetary parade visible at dawn, plus the Moon. And a very special bonus were the transits of both the International Space Station and the Chinese Tianhe-1...
Jupiter and Saturn’s great conjunction: images of a historic event – 21 Dec. 2020
Last week, we witnessed something unique: a very close conjunction between the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn. More than one million individuals worldwide joined our live feed, here we share our best images. We...
Jupiter and Saturn are closer and closer – 19 Dec. 2020
Two days before their historic conjunction, Jupiter and Saturn were a stunning sight, despite the poor and bright sky. Here it is our latest view. The image above comes from a single 1-second, blue...
Jupiter and Saturn prepare their epic show – 16 Dec. 2020
While waiting for their epic conjunction, Jupiter and Saturn are slowly approaching each other up there. Here we present a few images we did. Over the past few days, I managed to get a...
The Moon visits the giant planets, Jupiter and Saturn – 19 Nov. 2020
On 19 Nov. 2020, the Moon met Jupiter and Saturn, at sunset: here we share a few images from Rome of that magic rendez-vous. After the super meeting a few days ago at dawn...
