Friday, September 19, 2014
Where Will Philae Land on Comet 67P?
On November 11th, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will dispatch the heavily instrumented Philae lander to an area called "Site J" on one end of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
For details see the article in Sky and Telescope.
Thursday, September 4, 2014
Comet Jacques - Coma
It turns out that there was just a bit too much noise in the high ISO images I took of comet Jacques back on August 26th. Stacking and processing them in PixInsight revealed a slightly better view of the nucleus/coma of the comet, but the improvement was marginal at best. If there is a tail in there I didn't capture it.
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New AstroPhotos from Mikey's Place
Been awhile since I posted my latest captures here on the blog. Here are a few of them. Hope you enjoy them. The Rosette Nebula The Rosette ...

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We had an unscheduled ' entertainment ' activity last evening (actually, early morning of the 13th). The ship ran into a fairly lar...
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Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), first discovered in early 2023, has been zooming towards the inner solar system ever since. Earlier thi...