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Ernesto Guido

New Sungrazing Comet - 0 views

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    After the bright sungrazing comet discovered on January 02, 2010 on images taken by NASA's STEREO-A spacecraft, a new comet is plunging toward the sun. On first looking this comet is ~1-1.5 mag fainter than the previous one from early January.
Ernesto Guido

Remanzacco Observatory - Comets & Neo: New Comet P/2009 L2 (YANG-GAO) - 0 views

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    IAUC Circular No. 9052, issued on 2009, June 16, announces the discovery by Rui Yang and Xing Gao of a new comet on several survey images taken by Gao in the course of the Xingming Comet Survey at Mt. Nanshan using a Canon 350D camera (+ 10.7-cm f/2.8 camera lens).
Ernesto Guido

New Comet Discovery: C/2009 R1 (McNAUGHT) - 0 views

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    IAU Circular nr.9071, issued on 2009, Sep. 10, announces the discovery of a new comet by R. H. McNaught, named C/2009 R1 (McNAUGHT). This comet may reach magnitude 5 at the end of June 2010, but the elongation will be very small (only 18 degree on June 27, 2010) and so the observing conditions.
Ernesto Guido

Three new comets discovered - 0 views

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    Three new comets have been discovered in the last few days.....
Ernesto Guido

Remanzacco Observatory - Comets & Neo: New Comet: C/2010 G2 (HILL) - 0 views

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    IAU circular No. 9134, issued on 2010, April 11, announces the discovery by R. E. Hill of a new comet on Apr. 10, 2010, in the course of the Catalina Sky Survey.
Ernesto Guido

Five Amateurs Win Comet Prize - 0 views

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    The 2009 Edgar Wilson Award honors amateur astronomers who discovered five different comets in the last 12 months, proving that backyard comet hunting still thrives in this age of automated professional sky patrols.
Ernesto Guido

New Circumpolar Comet Yi-SWAN - 0 views

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    On March 26, 2009, Korean amateur Dae-am Yi caught the small, greenish glow of a new comet with his Canon camera.
Ernesto Guido

New Comet Yi-SWAN - 0 views

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    Are you ready for the new kid on the block? Its name is Comet Yi-SWAN and it's not going to be very long before it's easily within range of small telescopes
Ernesto Guido

Comet Holmes produced mini-comets - 0 views

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    The outburst of Comet 17P/Holmes was so violent that it blew huge chunks of the comet's surface clean off, according to a new analysis of images taken in November 2007.
Ernesto Guido

New Comet Discovery C/2010 A3 (HILL) - 1 views

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    IAU circular No. 9106, issued on 2010, Jan. 09, announces the discovery of another comet by R. E. Hill, named C/2010 A3. It was discovered with the Catalina 0.68-m Schmidt telescope + CCD in the course of the Catalina Sky Survey.
Ernesto Guido

New Comet C/2009 F6 (YI-SWAN) - 0 views

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    Image and information about the newly discovered comet C/2009 F6 (YI-SWAN).
Ernesto Guido

Comets and asteroids news - 0 views

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    Latest news and information about comets and asteroids
Ernesto Guido

Giant planet holds comets hostage - 0 views

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    Jupiter has been caught 'kidnapping' comets when they venture too close, forcing them to become temporary satellites of the great planet before they are slingshot away or spiral into Jupiter, according to new data presented at this week's European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) in Potsdam, Germany.
Ernesto Guido

Comets & Neo: New Comet Discovery: P/2009 QG31 - 0 views

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    IAU circular No. 9078, issued on 2009, Sept. 29, announces that an asteroidal object, discovered with a 0.45-m f/2.8 reflector + CCD by the "La Sagra Sky Survey" (Spain), has been reported to show cometary features by several observers, involved in its astrometric follow-up.
Ernesto Guido

What (Maybe) Didn't Kill the Dinosaurs: Comets - 0 views

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    A new model for comet production revises the theory of their origins
Ernesto Guido

New Comet Discovery: P/2009 S2 (McNAUGHT) - 1 views

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    IAUC nr. 9075, issued on 2009 Sept. 24th, announces the discovery of another comet by Robert McNaught, named P/2009 S2.
Ernesto Guido

SkyandTelescope.com - A Comet Goes to the Swift - 0 views

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    NASA's Swift spacecraft reveals new aspects of Comet Lulin when viewing it in X-rays and the ultraviolet.
Ernesto Guido

2009 Comet Awards Announced - 0 views

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    The Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT) -- operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the International Astronomical Union (IAU) -- has announced the recipients of the 2009 Edgar Wilson Award for the discovery of comets by amateurs during the calendar year ending June 11.
Ernesto Guido

New Comet Discovery: C/2010 A4 (SIDING SPRING) - 0 views

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    AU circular No. 9107, issued on 2010, Jan. 14, announces the discovery by G. J. Garradd of an apparently asteroidal object, on CCD images taken with the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt telescope in the course of the Siding Spring Survey.
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