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Nov 9, 2024 · Welcome to the Virtual Telescope Project, a platform of real, very powerful robotic telescopes, bringing the breath-taking, real time experience of the night sky to the world. Discover what the Virtual Telescope Project can do for you, supporting your interest and curiosity for the Universe. Join our live, online events, taking you in a journey ...
Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS: new image – 13 Nov. 2024
2 days ago · C/2023 A3 Tsichinshan-ATLAS: 4 Nov. 2024. The image above comes from the sigma clipping combination of 6, 120-second exposures, remotely taken with the ARTEC250+Paramount ME+C3Pro61000EC robotic unit available as part of the Virtual Telescope Project facility in Manciano, Italy, under the darkest skies of the Italian peninsula.
Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 VX3 very close encounter: an image - 13 …
2 days ago · The image above comes from a single 30-second exposure, remotely taken with the “Elena” (PlaneWave 17″ + Paramount MEII + SBIG STL-6303E) robotic unit available as part of the Virtual Telescope Project.The telescope tracked the fast apparent motion of the asteroid, so it looks like a sharp dot of light, indicated with a red arrow, while stars leave long, bright streaks on the background.
Virtual Telescope's WebTV - The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0
Oct 9, 2024 · Virtual Telescope’s WebTV. Next event: “ The Beaver Supermoon: online observation ” – 15 Nov. 2024, starting at 18:30 UTC. *NEW!*: Want to see near-Earth asteroid 2020 SW in HD? Check HERE our Premier service! The Virtual Telescope - Telescopi Robotici a Controllo Remoto - Robotic, Remotely Controlled Telescopes - Ceccano (FR), Italia ...
The Virtual Telescope Project reaches beyond the visible: record ...
Nov 4, 2024 · “To our knowledge, no telescope with a diameter under 180 cm has ever reached so deeply into space and time,” says Gianluca Masi.“This result would have been deemed impossible before this epochal achievement by the Virtual Telescope Project, significantly aided by the quality of the observing site, Manciano (GR), which is the most light-pollution-free site in peninsular Italy,” he ...
Supernova SN 2024xqt in anonymous galaxy: an image – 4 Nov.
6 days ago · The image above comes from the average of 5, 120-second exposures, unfiltered and unguided, remotely taken with the “Elena” (PlaneWave 17″ + Paramount MEII + SBIG STL-6303E) robotic unit available as part of the Virtual Telescope Project facility in Manciano, Italy.SN 2024xqt is a type Ia supernova, discovered on 10 Oct. 2024.It is hosted in an anonymous galaxy.
Asteroid Live - The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0
Asteroid Live. Asteroid 2012 QG42: an animation. Over the years, the Virtual Telescope Project has been particularly successful in providing real time, public coverage of asteroids approaching our planet. For this, our webTV has been an amazing tool, making our viewers happy with the experience. Asteroids are an important research field at our ...
The Project - The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0
The Virtual Telescope Project is an advanced service provided by the Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Italy and managed by Dr. Gianluca Masi, PhD. It consists in several, robotic telescopes, remotely accessible in real-time over the Interne t, both for research and fun, available for all. Despite the technologically advanced ...
The Telescopes - The Virtual Telescope Project 2.0
The Virtual Telescope Project offers several very powerful, state-of-the-art scopes, located in Ceccano and Manciano (Italy). Both sites are identified by the Minor Planet Center with the codes 470 Ceccano and M50 Virtual Telescope Project, respectively. Discover our telescopes below and imagine what they can do for you!
The Virtual Telescope Project makes a record setting observation …
Apr 15, 2024 · Quasars represent the luminous cores of distant galaxies, whose “engine” is a supermassive black hole. It continuously receives material from the surrounding space, which, while waiting to fall into it, lingers in a very hot accretion disk, releasing an enormous amount of energy, making quasars among the brightest objects in the sky, visible at very deep distances.