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Sun 27.02.14: Another glorious day in the core Sun 27.02.14: Quick photo mosaic

Spain's Altamira caves reopen for a day Spain's famous Altamira caves are briefly being opened to the public, for the first time in 12 years. Five elderly Spaniards chosen in a draw can marvel at its ice-age paintings of bison, bulls and other animals. The visit, including time accessing the caves, w...

Rare Neolithic or Bronze Age rock art in Ross-shire A rare example of prehistoric rock art has been uncovered in the Highlands. Archaeologists made the discovery while moving a boulder decorated with ancient cup and ring marks to a new location in Ross-shire. When they turned the stone over they fou...

Anniversary of Philibert Melotte's discovery of Jupiters moon Pasiphae in 1908.

Fireball over Hungary on 28 February 2010. Click to Play | View Details zablesk1 Click to Play | View Details

The February 28, 1904 sighting, by witnesses aboard the U.S.S. Supply, of three bright objects moving rapidly through the sky is compared with what would be expected if they had been meteors. I have the honor to report that three somewhat remarkable meteors were observed from this ship at 6:10 AM (Gr...

Orbital elements: 2014 CD13 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0216 AU Epoch 2013 Nov. 4.0 TT = JDT 2456600.5 MPC M 308.54161 (2000.0) P Q n 0.31806144 Peri. 284.45038 -0.22460830 +0.97291059 a 2.1255045 Node 332.38504 -0.84237611 -0.22209647 e 0.7452866 Incl. 6.78171 -0.48985060 -0.06417270 P 3.10 H 2...

EphemerisDate TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase Mag 2012 12 19 08 38 52.4 +37 53 09 1.6335 2.4765 141.0 14.5 19.5 2012 12 20 08 37 54.5 +37 56 28 1.6333 2.4836 142.0 14.1 19.5 2012 12 21 08 36 54.6 +37 59 42 1.6333 2.4907 143.1 13.7 19.5 2012 12 22 08 35 52.9 +38 02 49 1.6335 2.4978 144.1 13.4 19.5 201...

NGC 2554 (also IRAS 08149+2337, MCG 4-20-15, UGC 4312 and PGC 23256) is a magnitude +12.0 spiral galaxy located 191 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer. The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel using a 47.5 cm(18.7 inch) f/13 speculum reflector a...

NGC 2238 (also LBN 948) is a magnitude +8.5 emission nebula which is within the Rosette Nebula located 5,200 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. The nebula was discovered by German astronomer Albert Marth using a 1.2m (48 inch) Newtonian reflector at William Lassell's Tigné Point ob...

ATel 5923: NIR Flare of the low redshift quasar PKS0736+017

Jupiter 26.02.14: Captured with a 100mm refractor and vesta pro webcam Jupiter 26.02.14: Captured with a 100mm refractor and vesta pro webcam

Sun 26.02.14: The western limb Sun 26.02.14: The eastern limb Sun 26.02.14: Photo mosaic captured with a 100mm refractor and vesta pro webcam Sun 26.02.14: Ultraviolet (380nm) photo mosaic Sun 26.02.14: Ultraviolet (380nm) photo mosaic

NGC 4424 (also UGC 7561, MCG 2-32-58, IRAS 12246 +0941 and PGC 40809) is a magnitude +11.4 barred spiral galaxy located 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by German-Danish astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest using a 27.94 cm (11 inch) f/17.5 Merz-Ref...

New Britain, or Niu Briten, is the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago (named after Otto von Bismarck) of Papua New Guinea. William Dampier became the first known European to visit New Britain on 27 February 1700: he dubbed the islan...