NGC 6105 (also MCG 6-36-13 and PGC 57716) is a magnitude +14.4 barred spiral galaxy located 398 million light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflecting telescope at the Marseille Obser...
NGC 6107 (also MCG 6-36-14, UGC 10311 and PGC 57728) is a magnitude +13.8 elliptical galaxy located 422 million light-years away in the constellation Corona Borealis. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Stephan using a 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflecting telescope at the Marseil...
NGC 6200 (also ESO 277-SC8, Collinder 311 and OCL 978) is a magnitude +7.4 open star cluster located 6,700 light-years away away in the constellation Ara. The cluster was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 45.72 cm (18 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at the Cape of Good Hope on the 1...
NGC 6602 (also IRAS 18145+2501, MCG 4-43-21, UGC 11184 and PGC 61674) is a magnitude +13.8 barred spiral galaxy located 142 million light-years away in the constellation Hercules. The galaxy was discovered by French astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan using a 30.48 cm (12 inch) refractor at the Paris...
NGC 6909 (also ESO 285-12 and PGC 64725) is a magnitude +11.7 elliptical galaxy located 128 million light-years away away in the constellation Telescopium. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 45.72 cm (18 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at the Cape of Good Hope on th...
NGC 6918 (also ESO 234-40, IRAS 20272-4738 and PGC 64851) is a magnitude +13.6 barred spiral galaxy located 240 million light-years away away in the constellation Indus. The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel using a 45.72 cm (18 inch) f/13 speculum reflector at the Cape of G...
Two new images from the Gemini Observatory released today at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Calgary, Canada, show a pair of beautiful nebulae that were created by two very different types of stars at what may be similar points in their evolutionary timelines.
One is a rare type of...
Title: A fossil winonaite-like meteorite in Ordovician limestone: A piece of the impactor that broke up the L-chondrite parent body? Author: Birger Schmitz et al About a quarter of all meteorites falling on Earth today originate from the breakup of the L-chondrite parent body ~470 Ma ago, the larg...
The 290 - 650 metre wide asteroid 2003 EE16 will make a close pass (57.1 lunar distances, 0.1468 AU), travelling at 23.53 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd February, 2013 @ 09:58 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...
Orbital elements:
2011 UZ255 Earth MOID = 0.0039 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 353.28713 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.34119361 Peri. 124.65201 +0.92907185 +0.36838189
a 2.0283153 Node 213.76747 -0.35602348 +0.86600070
e 0.5772810 Incl. 3.45232 -0.10036323 +0.33813839
P 2.89 H 23....
The great comet of 1264 (C/1264 N1) was one of the brightest comets on record. It appeared in July 1264 and remained visible to the end of September. It was first seen during the evenings after sunset, but appeared in its greatest splendor in weeks afterward, when it became visible during the mornings...
A green fireball meteor seen over the UK has been captured on camera by an observatory in Devon. The "bolide" meteor was seen in the West Country, Wales and the West Midlands at 03:04 BST. Read more
Orbital elements:
2014 KQ76 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0409 AU
Epoch 2014 May 23.0 TT = JDT 2456800.5 MPC
M 127.94840 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.97477121 Peri. 324.77078 -0.05029566 -0.99657744
a 1.0073976 Node 128.02161 +0.93436857 -0.07015210
e 0.4235515 Incl. 4.77689 +0.35274029 +0.04372734
P 1.01 H 2...
