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Monthly Archives: February 2016

M106 & Friends

Winter is coming to an end, so it’s galaxy season again! Constellation Canes Venatici (The “Hunting Dogs”) is home to a number of spring season gems, the most notable of which is M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy. However, there’s more to this small constellation than one can imagine, as it contains a number of other notable galaxies: M63, M94, M106, etc. This time I pointed my telescope at M106, a SAB spiral galaxy lying in the northeastern part of the constellation. […]

By Emmanuele Sordini Astronomy: images 25 February 2016 0

Comet Catalina’s “flyby”

Comet C/2013 US10 was discovered on 31 October 2013 by the Catalina Sky Survey, an automated system aimed at searching for asteroids and comets. As perihelion was expected on 15th November 2015 and the closest approach to Earth on 17th January 2016, the best “observing window” would be between late 2015 and early 2016. In the fall of 2015, the comet was a southern sky object, but its swift northward motion would rapidly increase its declination, so that it would […]

By Emmanuele Sordini Astronomy: images / Astronomy: reports 15 February 2016 0

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