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...
Tagged: Uranus
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, the Moon, Jupiter and Uranus with a colorful corona – 10 Apr. 2024.
Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks said goodbye to the Northern hemisphere in a very special way: putting a party up there with the Moon, Jupiter, and Uranus. To make the venue more beautiful, thin clouds produced a...
Five Planets at a glance – online observation (28 Mar. 2023)
These evenings, at sunset, we can spot five planets at a glance: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter by naked eye, Uranus with modest binoculars. We will be showing all of them live, online. From...
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...
The Moon occults planet Uranus: a sequence – 5 Dec. 20022
Last night, the almost full Moon occulted planet Uranus. We could observe the start of the event, before clouds covered the sky. Here it is an interesting animation. I managed to capture a sequence...
The Moon occults planet Uranus: online observation – 14 Sept. 2022
On the night of 14 Sept. 2022, our Moon will move in front of planet Uranus, occulting it. We will bring the show to you, at home! We will see planet Uranus disappearing behind...
Mars and Uranus meet in the sky: images from a planetary conjunction – 2 Aug. 2022.
We spotted the beautiful the Mars-Uranus conjunction and shared it with the world. Here they are our images. This morning, we spotted the awaited Mars-Uranus conjunction: the two planets were within 1.5 degrees (three lunar...
The Moon, Uranus and Mars meet at dawn
On 22 July 2022, the Moon had a nice conjunction with Uranus, helping to locate the otherwise largely missed first planet of modern era. Mars was not far from them, enriching the view. I...
Mars meets Uranus: a planetary conjunction – live event (02 Aug. 2022)
Next 02 Aug. 2022, the red planet Mars will be in conjunction with Uranus, the first modern planet to be discovered. We will show you it live, online. Such a nice conjunction happens from...
Mars and Uranus: 12 Feb. 2019 conjunction – an image
On 12-13 Feb. 2019, planets Mars and Uranus had a nice conjunction. While Mars is visible by naked eye, Uranus requires a small binocular to be seen. Here it is an image we captured...
An epic Grand Tour: all the Eight planets seen on the same night, above the legendary monuments of Rome – 28 & 29 Aug. 2018
I have been thinking about this for decades: see and hopefully image all the planets of our Solar System in one night, from sunset to dawn. And I did it, last night, in a...
