The 23 - 52 metre wide asteroid 2014 US34 will make a close pass (21.4 lunar distances, 0.0550 AU) travelling at 10.69 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st November 2014 @ 08:45 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
The 17 - 39 metre wide asteroid 2014 UA57 will make a close pass (16.7 lunar distances, 0.0430 AU) travelling at 7.01 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 1st November 2014 @ 07:01 UT ±00:03. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...
A possible magnitude +13.6 supernova in Messier 61 was discovered by Koichi Itagaki on the 29th October 2014 Position(2000): R.A. 12h 21m 57.57s, Dec. = +04° 28' 18.5" Image Image
Slaton (b) 33.4336, -101.7498 Lubbock County, Texas, United States Found: 1940s Classification: Iron meteorite (IIAB) History: The meteorite was found at Cade Farm on Union Rd., west of Slaton, Texas, by H.M. Cade reportedly sometime in the 1940s when he was plowing his cotton field. This comes f...
NGC 806 (also MCG -2-6-21, and PGC 7835 with PGC 3100716) is a pair of magnitude +13.9 and +14.7 interacting spiral galaxies located 181 and 176 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. NGC 806 was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and...
NGC 809 (also MCG -2-6-23 and PGC 7889) is a magnitude +13.8 spiral galaxy located 247 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Observatory, East Avenu...
NGC 948 (also MCG -2-7-15 and PGC 9431) is a magnitude +13.7 barred spiral galaxy located 219 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Observatory, Eas...
NGC 1238 (also MCG -2-9-10 and PGC 11868) is a magnitude +13.3 elliptical galaxy located 228 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Observatory,...
NGC 1464 (also NGC 1471, IRAS 03491-1533 and PGC 13976) is a magnitude +13.8 spiral galaxy located 80 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Obser...
NGC 1666 (also MCG -1-13-10 and PGC 16057) is a magnitude +12.6 face-on barred spiral galaxy located 127 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. The galaxy was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift using a 40.6 cm (16 inch) Alvan Clark and Sons refractor at the Warner Ob...
Title: J1649+26: A Grand-Design Spiral with a Large Double-Lobed Radio Source Author: Minnie Y. Mao, Frazer Owen, Ryan Duffin, Bill Keel, Mark Lacy, Emmanuel Momjian, Glenn Morrison, Tony Mroczkowski, Susan Neff, Ray P. Norris, Henrique Schmitt, Vicki Toy, Sylvain Veilleux We report the disco...
Title: Delta Scorpii 2011 periastron: worldwide observational campaign and preliminary photometric analysis Authors: Costantino Sigismondi Delta Scorpii is a double giant Be star in the forefront of the Scorpio, well visible to the naked eye, being normally of magnitude 2.3. In the year 2000 i...
Title: The solar rotation in the period 1853-1870 from the sunspot catalogues of Carrington, Peters, and de la Rue Author: Ricard Casas, José M. Vaquero R. C. Carrington, C. H. F. Peters, and W. de la Rue observed the sunspots in the second half of the 19th century, determining their heliographic pos...
