News, curiosity and facts about the Universe and all of its objects. Practice astronomy and photography about the night sky.
11 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
1 year ago was published a photo, confirming Einstein theory about black holes 11th of April 2019 was an historical date for science: for the first time ever, a black hole has been photographed, confirming Einstein gravitational waves theory. With no...
10 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
After the meeting between Venus and Pleiades, now it’s up to the other planets to show off April 2020 is the month of planetary conjunctions: after the show of Venus few days ago, now it's up to others. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are dominating the s...
8 Apr 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Luke86
She's been the first to describe the star meltdown processes Another one of the greatest women in astronomy world, has gone: Margaret Burbidge has passed away last sunday, 5th of April 2020. The first woman to lead the Royal Greenwich Observatory, i...
7 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
The Full Moon will gift us its best show for 2020 The Super-Moon will rise tonight: at 8:20 pm it will get close until the perigee, about 356.000 km. The combination of perigee and the Full phase, generates the "Super-Moon", little brighter and appa...
7 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
New observations revealed an elongation of the nucleus and a lower magnitude Is the probability to see a naked eye visible comet dashed? There were great expectations about this comet, and probably we can still have them. Although the last observatio...
6 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Launched on 24th of April 1990, it gifted us spectacular images about all the Universe. A 2,4 meters diameter primary mirror and 5 instruments to see in "visible", "ultra-violet" and "infra-red". The Hubble Space Telescope has gifted us the best imag...
5 Apr 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Luke86
On 21st of June 2020 a rare annular eclipse will be visible from Africa and Asia After the planetary conjunctions of April and the upcoming ATLAS comet visible in May (now it's approximately 150 million of km far from Earth), June will gift us an ann...
4 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Some of the shots took last evening. The first shot was took with a Canon EOS 750D, 55mm focal lenght, 8 seconds of time exposure and 400 ISO This another one, with a Canon EOS 6D, with higher magnification at 250mm But, first, during the preparati...
3 Apr 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Luke86
Some advice to capture this rare event It doesn't matter what kind of equipment you have: this evening, at the sunset, try it! This event won't be visible for 8 years, so we have to take advantage of it. In the previous article (click HERE) i explain...
3 Apr 2020 1 minute read 3 comments Luke86
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter captured Apollo 12,14 and 17 landing sites Yes, we've been to the Moon and there is no other way to disprove it. The last photos shot by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter are a final blow to conspiracy theorists: these pic...
