This is the sun as it appeared on July 22, 2021: The surface features six active regions – we haven’t seen that many active regions at once in a very long time. Here’s an...
Sun: AR2837
This is the sun on June 29, 2021 featuring sunspot AR2037: The sunspot developed today, is unipolar, and is made up of just one active region. This sunspot joins two others on the lower...
Eagle and Omega Nebulae
This is a widefield, narrowband view of the Eagle Nebula (upper orange and blue nebula), or M16, and the Omega Nebula, lower blue nebula, or M17: The Eagle Nebula is about 5,700 light years...
Sun: Eclipse and AR2832 – June 10 2021
This is the sun as it appeared during the eclipse of June 10, 2021, as seen from the Canary Islands: There are two interesting features in this image: The moon, blocking part of the...
Planning and Booking Slooh.com Missions to Observe a Comet
One of the great things about Slooh.com is that you can point the telescope anywhere in the sky, giving you complete flexibility to observe a visible target. One interesting aspect of observing is getting...
Comet Discovery: 2014 UN271
Astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein recently discovered a comet that is about 100km wide called 2014UN271, or Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein. They discovered the comet by studying archival images from the Dark Energy Survey. The...
Sun: Sunspot AR2835 and AR2836
This is sunspot AR2835 that’s just starting to come around to the earth facing side of the sun (the sunspot is at the far left of the sun in this image): This sunspot is...
Apollo Press Kits
A Slooh.com member posted in the forums about Apollo Press Kits, a website dedicated to providing free access to high quality scans of press kits that documented in detail many aspects of the historic...
Messier 8 and Messier 20 Widefield
Messier 8, the Lagoon Nebula, is the red nebula at the bottom of the image and Messier 20, the Trifid Nebula is the red and blue nebula in the upper half of the image:...
Globular Cluster NGC 3201
This is NGC 3201 – a globular cluster located in Vela: There is a black hole at the center of this cluster found in 2018. This image is made up of a total of...
