Vesta Watch: online observation of the asteroid – 10 April 2014
an official event for Global Astronomy Month (April 2014) *** Join it LIVE here! *** Join us as we observe the asteroid Vesta. Vesta is one of the largest asteroids in the Solar System. At the time of...
View Article“Vesta Watch”: a spectacular sight of a bright asteroid
The “Vesta Watch” live event was intended to show live, online images of the bright asteroid (4) Vesta during its favorable 2014 apparition, just in April 2014, by chance overlapping with Global...
View ArticleCeres and Vesta meet in the sky: online observing session (5 July 2014)
*** See Ceres and Vesta live here! *** Next 5 July 2014, the dwarf planet Ceres and the asteroid Vesta will apparently meet in the same spot in the sky: they will be less than 10 arc-minutes apart,...
View ArticleCeres and Vesta close conjunction: an image (3 July 2014)
Next 5 July, we will show live the amazing, rare conjunction between the dwarf planet Ceres and the asteroid Vesta. While waiting for this big show, we captured this view already showing the couple so...
View ArticleCeres and Vesta close conjunction: a new image (4 July 2014)
While Ceres and Vesta prepare their closest conjunction. at Virtual Telescope we imaged this unusual couple again. Above is an image showing the dwarf planet Ceres and the asteroid Vesta less than 12...
View ArticleCeres and Vesta close conjunction: image and podcast (5 July 2014)
Finally, at Virtual Telescope we observed the dwarf planet (1) Ceres and the asteroid (4) Vesta at their minimum angular distance (10 arcminutes, 1/3 of the angular size of the full Moon disk), sharing...
View ArticleAsteroid (4) Vesta almost at opposition: an image – 7 Nov. 2019
Asteroid (4) Vesta is approaching its opposition and we managed to image it. It is the brightest minor planet in our Solar System, sometimes visible by naked eye. The image above comes from a... The...
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