La Cañada Observatory, is an initiative by Juan Lacruz, the observatory started astrometric operations in the summer of 2002, it is registered as station J87 in the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union.
The Observatory also participates in the studies on minor bodies promoted by the Group on Meteorites, Minor Bodies, and Planetary Sciences of the Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC).
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The Observatory also participates in the studies on minor bodies promoted by the Group on Meteorites, Minor Bodies, and Planetary Sciences of the Institute of Space Sciences (CSIC-IEEC).
Este obra está bajo una licencia de Creative Commons Reconocimiento-NoComercial-SinObraDerivada 2.5 España.
Showing posts with label C/2012 S1 ISON. Show all posts
Showing posts with label C/2012 S1 ISON. Show all posts
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Comet ISON fizzles out at the perihelion
Comet ISON on its passage by the perihelion seems to have fizzled out the remains don't show a nuclear condensation.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
Comet C/2012 S1 ISON on 2013-Oct-05
As the comet approaches perihelion it looks in good condition, no disintegration yet.
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| C/2012 S1 ISON, 2013-10-05 4:19:28 UT J87 Observatory La Cañada (c) Juan Lacruz |
This is the above image aftter being cropped and resized 2x, a false color rendition show better the comma extents.
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| C/2012 S1 ISON, 2013-10-05 4:19:28 UT False color, J87 Observatory La Cañada (c) Juan Lacruz |
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Comet ISON, La Cañada 2013-08-24
Comet ISON was hiden by the Sun a few months, now it is visible again, this picture is a stack taken just before the sunrise from La Cañada.
Thursday, April 25, 2013
C/2012 S1 ISON & C/2013 H1 La Sagra 2013.04.19
The comet C/2012 S1 ISON continues at mag 15.9R and shows a tail around 30 arc seconds long in position angle 90 degrees.
Comet ISON is potentially the "comet of the century" because it is expected to become very bright when approaching the perihelion.
ISON stands for International Scientific Optical Network, a group of observatories in ten countries organized to detect and track objects in space, it is managed by the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, part of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
References MPEC-2013-H27, CBET 3485 (subscribers)
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Comets C/2012 K5 LINEAR & C/2012 S1 ISON
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| One hour exposure on Comet ISON, La Cañada 0,40 m F10 Ritchey-Chretien telescope |
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Comet C/2012 S1 ISON from Observatorio de La Cañada J87 on 05-January-2013
Signal to noise ratio in Y-axis, full width at half maximum FWHM in X-axis, comet in red, surrounding stars in blue.
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Comet C/2012 S1 ISON, not an obvious comet at the moment, displays a coma size of 15 arc seconds in diameter. This Sun grazer comet is supposed to brighten in its approach to perihelion by 28-November-2013 to become one of these comets to remember.
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