Our 30″ Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona covers an area equivalent to approximately 100 full moons. Eric Christensen observed 116 followup observations on a single night.
Apr 19th: 100 Moons & Followups
Tag: travelers in the night
Apr 12th: Alex’s Catch & Teddy’s Debut
Alex Gibbs discovered 8 new celestial visitors including 2019 CR4 & 2019 CD5. While Teddy Pruyne & Richard Kowalski discovered six new Earth Approaching Objects.
Apr 5th: Africano 4 & Cuban Meteorites
Brian Africano discovered his 4th comet named C/2019 B1 (Africano) and National Weather Service RADAR discovered a large fireball meteor over Cuba.
Mar 29th: Comet Groeller & Asteroid Billiards
The first comet discovery of Hannes Groeller and DART will slam projectile into Didymoon in 2022.
Mar 22nd: Collision & Tiny Visitor
6478 Gault in the asteroid belt grew after collision and discovery of 2019 AS5
Mar 15th: One Thousand & Home Wrecker
For the first time in history, an asteroid hunting team, the Catalina Sky Survey, has discovered more than 1,000 Earth approaching asteroids in a single year.
Mar 8th: Lunar Space Rock & Comets Africano
More than 340 lunar meteorites have been found in the Darfur region of Oman, in antarctica and other locations.
Brian Africano discovered 2 comets in a 13 night period.
Mar 1st: Greg’s Comet & Comet Lemmon
Greg Leonard noticed P/2018 VN2 (Leonard) in Taurus Constellation and
Richard Kowalski discovered Comet C/2018 U1 (Lemmon) in Cygnus.
Feb 23rd: Close Again & Busy Night
Greg Leonard found 50′ diameter 2018 VO5. Also Al Grauer discovered 21 space rocks on Halloween night 2018.
Feb 16th: Dust Moons & Space Weather
Discovery of dust clouds at the Earth-Moon L4 and L5 points. And the solar wind that impact space weather.