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Orbital elements: 2014 WP362 Earth MOID = 0.0022 AU Epoch 2014 Dec. 9.0 TT = JDT 2457000.5 MPC M 317.15030 (2000.0) P Q n 0.77204464 Peri. 81.63181 -0.93796305 -0.16860726 a 1.1768139 Node 88.26328 +0.04038876 -0.92098818 e 0.4350357 Incl. 17.64505 +0.34437488 -0.35121555 P 1.28 H 23.1 G...

Ultraviolet (390nm) image captured with a 114mm f5 reflector and vesta pro webcam. EQ1 Mount and Baader solar filter.

Photo-mosaic

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Orbital elements: 2015 FL PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0374 AU Epoch 2015 June 27.0 TT = JDT 2457200.5 MPC M 11.02028 (2000.0) P Q n 0.22687742 Peri. 224.73987 -0.55773904 +0.82820117 a 2.6624116 Node 11.72638 -0.66571958 -0.40688203 e 0.6483014 Incl. 15.66105 -0.49572634 -0.38539568 P 4.34 H 20....

Comet 243P/NEAT is at Perihelion (2.456 AU) on the 3rd March, 2011. Ephemeris Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2011 02 26 00 11 20.0 -04 46 19 3.3234 2.4563 24.4 9.6 19.0 2011 02 27 00 13 06.8 -04 33 46 3.3284 2.4562 23.9 9.4 19.0 2011 02 28 00 14 53.7 -04 21 13 3.3333 2.4561 23.4 9.2 19.0 2011 03...

Comet C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden) is at Opposition (3.100 AU) on the 30 December 2013 EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2013 12 29 06 36 45.7 +22 53 26 3.1111 4.0943 178.7 0.3 17.6 2013 12 30 06 35 00.9 +22 52 43 3.0999 4.0832 179.6 0.1 17.6 2013 12 31 06 33 15.3 +22 51 54 3.0891 4.0722 1...

Title: 500 Days of SN 2013dy: spectra and photometry from the ultraviolet to the infrared Author: Y.-C. Pan, R. J. Foley, P. Challis, K. I. Clubb, A. V. Filippenko, G. Folatelli, O. D. Fox, M. L. Graham, W. Hillebrandt, R. P. Kirshner, M. Kromer, W. H. Lee, R. Pakmor, F. Patat, M. M. Phillips, G. Pignata...

A magnitude 14.7, type IIP supernova, 2009ib, was discovered on the 6th August, 2009, by Pignata et al. at the CHilean Automatic Supernova sEarch (CHASE) in the spiral galaxy NGC 1559 in the constellation Reticulum. The supernova is located 28.5" east and 22.3" north from the center of...

Title: Spot evolution on the red giant star XX Triangulum. A starspot-decay analysis based on time-series Doppler imaging Author: A. Künstler, T. A. Carroll, K. G. Strassmeier Solar spots appear to decay linearly proportional to their size. The decay rate of solar spots is directly related to mag...

Walter H. Haas (July 3, 1917 - April 6, 2015) was an American amateur astronomer. He started observing in the 1930s. After the Second World War he founded the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers (ALPO) Read more

An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century. John Kanzius happened upon the discovery accidentally when he tried to desalinate seawater with a radio-freq...

ATel 7359: MASTER: SN discovery in QSO host galaxy. QSO galaxy BZB J1254-4424

Alexander Dalgarno FRS (5 January 1928 - 8 April 2015) was a British physicist who was a Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. Read more

Sappho, was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, born on the island of Lesbos. In history and poetry texts, she is sometimes associated with the city of Mytilene on Lesbos; she was also said to have been born in Eresos, another city on Lesbos. Her birth was sometime between 630 BC and 612 BC, and it is said that sh...