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Astrophotographer Miguel Claro made a video of the event from the Dark Sky® Alqueva Observatory in Portugal. Comet ZTF is approaching Earth for a close encounter (0.28 AU) on Feb. 1st. pic ...
Comet E3 will begin to fade away during the second half of February as it moves farther away from the Earth and the sun, making it more difficult to find, even with a telescope.
View satellite position on world map or a simple polar chart showing the path the satellite will take across your sky. [10] ISS Visibility, interface to Heavens-Above, predictions up to 30 days out, ground tracks, star chart with path shown. [11] SkySafari shows alerts for Iridium flares and ISS passes. ISS Detector – shows ISS position. Can ...
C/2024 S1 (ATLAS) (previously had the temporary designation A11bP7I) was a sungrazing comet that was discovered by ATLAS-HKO in Hawaii on 27 September 2024. The comet passed its perihelion on 28 October 2024, at a distance of about 0.008 AU (1.2 million km; 0.74 million mi) from the barycenter of the Solar System, [1] and disintegrated.
Heavens-Above is a non-profit website developed and maintained by Chris Peat as Heavens-Above GmbH.The web site is dedicated to helping people observe and track satellites orbiting the Earth without the need for optical equipment such as binoculars or telescopes.
The Millennium Star Atlas was constructed as a collaboration between a team at Sky & Telescope led by Roger Sinnott, and the European Space Agency's Hipparcos project, led by Michael Perryman. This 1997 work was the first sky atlas to include the Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogue data, extending earlier undertakings in terms of completeness and ...
By January 2024, the comet had brightened to an apparent magnitude of 13.6 and according to Bob King, author in Sky & Telescope magazine, was visible through 15-inch telescopes at ×142 magnification. [11] The comet was then moving through the constellations of Libra and Virgo. [11]
The program allows the selection of a telescope and camera and can preview the field of view against the sky. Using ASCOM the user can connect a computer-controlled telescope or an astronomical pointing device such as Meade's MySky, and then either control or follow it. The large selection of catalog objects and 1 arc-second-per-pixel imagery ...