Image of the comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) last night. Can be visible through binoculars late at night, before Sun rise this days.
One single 60 minute exposure image is displayed below. The complex tails structure can be identified.
Close to the right border, in almost vertical position, the spiral Galaxy NGC5894..
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| Image of the comet taken last night. North is up, east is left. Sun on the left. |
James Webb Telescope (JWST) arrived on the 24th of January at it's destination, an orbit around the Lagrange L2 point at about 1.5 MKm from Earth. Below, a 60 minutes time-lapse made from 60 images of 60 seconds each taken today. JWST can be easily identified as the moving point against the background stars. Apparent magnitude about 16.5, it will change depending on the sunshade orientation towards to the observer.
The asteroid 1994 PC1 flyby "near" the Earth -today at about 1% of the distance Sun Earth, it's closest approach to earth.
Video composition from 81 individual 3 second each images taken from the Carpe Noctem Observatory. A combination of tracking on stars, beginning and ending, and tracking on the asteroid, center has been used so the asteroid can be easily distinguish from the background stars.
Yes!, a few more meteors were detected on the 13th Dec night. Upto +750 !
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| +750 Gaminids + 2 plane long trails can be easily identified around the center of the image. |
Last night the Meteor Cam at the observatory detected +580 meteors corresponding to the Geminids. See the 580 images stacked into 1 single image below.
What happened last night above the observatory ?
Imagine we take a movie of the whole night sky, +12 hours, with a high sensitive camera and group in one single frame those moments when a meteor is detected by the camera. See the result:
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| Leonids 2020 trails detected during the night of 16-17 Nov. First light Meteor Cam at the observatory. |
In the above synthetic image, created by combining up-to 157 individual images in one single image, we can find more than150 trails. Most of them correspond to meteors and some fireballs (a firewall is not more than a meteor brighter than any of the planets). That is a meteor shower!
The bright arcs corresponds to the individual stars movement as the camera is fixed pointing to North West. Note the Polaris star trail, a small half circle in the top right of the image. Why half circle ?...
