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...
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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...
Sun: AR2833 is Old AR2824 – June 14 to June 22, 2021
This is the sun featuring sunspot AR2833: This sunspot is actually sunspot AR2824 that has rotated around the far side of the sun, returned, and has been renamed. This is the same sunspot as...
Webinar with Virtual Camera Club
I presented about Slooh.com along with a number of demos to the Virtual Camera Club, led by Gary Lintern. The presentation covered the major functions of Slooh.com, mission planning and booking, along with demos...
NGC 300
This is NGC 300, a spiral galaxy in Sculptor: This galaxy is estimated to be about 6.07 million light years from us. At the core of this galaxy is a binary system made up...
Barnard 252 – the Dolphin Nebula
This is the Dolphin Nebula, or Barnard 252: This dark nebula is actually covers the whole image, with the darkest part being the dolphin itself. The rest of this dark nebula gives the entire...
