Posts Categorized: Observations

Comet C/2009 F6 (Yi-SWAN) photographed at THO.

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Comet C/2009 F6 (Yi-SWAN) was photographed at Taurus Hill Observatory 25./26.4.2009 just after the sunset. The comet was visible in the northern sky before the midnight. The comet was about 9 magnitudes bright at the moment of the photographing, but due the light sky and difficult position it was only visible in the CCD -pictures. […]

GRB 090424 observed at Taurus Hill Observatory.

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The GRB 090424 was succesfully observed at Taurus Hill Observatory  24./25.4.2009. The results of this observation was published in the NASA GCN circular number 9246 (by Markku Nissinen and Veli-Pekka Hentunen). Link to the circular: GCN 9246 Observers: Markku Nissinen and Veli-Pekka Hentunen.

Supernova SN 2009bw has got dimmer.

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The supernova SN 2009bw that was discovered at THO is getting dimmer. At the moment of the photographing (22/23.4.2009) it had a brightness of 15,0R magnitudes. Observers: Markku Nissinen and Esa Heikkinen.

GRB 090418B was too dim to be observed.

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Taurus Hill Observatory research team members Markku Nissinen and Veli-Pekka Hentunen observed the afterglow of the GRB 090418B with the Global-rent-a-scope GRAS002 Tak Mewlon 0,3 meter telescope that is located in the New Mexico. Markku And Veli-Pekka used 600 sec. unfiltered exposure times. The pictures were taken about 19 hours after the detection of the GRB 19.4.2009 klo […]

Supernova SN 2009bw is getting dimmer and dimmer.

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The supernova SN 2009bw that was discovered at Taurus Hill Observatory 14th of April is getting dimmer and dimmer according the latest measurements. Observer: Markku Nissinen.     According the measurements made (so far) at Taurus Hill Observatory, the following light curve was produced.

The 2009 FH photographed by the research team

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The 2009 FH is a small stellar object. It has only a dimension of 15 meters. 2009 FH passed near the Earth 18.3.2009. Markku Nissinen and Veli-Pekka Hentunen, who are the members of the Taurus Hill Observatory research team, photgraphed this event by using the Mayhill (NM) remote observatory. Despite the 2009 FH is a very small object, it […]