(Tämä uutinen suomeksi) Comet Holmes is still a very bright object in the night sky. Here are a few photographs that the research team member Harri Haukka took in Espoo 01.11.2007 about 19:00 (finnish time). The comet was so bright that it was visible even when there was lot of light pollution in the sky. […]
Comet 17P/Holmes photographed.
Bright comet 17P/Holmes is photographed at THO 31.10.2007 evening at 21.06 local time. Observer: Markku Nissinen. 12 inch Meade + Paramount ME + focal reducer 0.5 NextGen + Canon EOS 350D. ISO 400. 30s exposure.
Comet 8P/Tuttle observed at Taurus Hill Observatory.
The comet 8P/Tuttle was observed at THO 22./23.10.2007 21:54 – 22:21 finnish time (+3h UTC). This picture is a combine of 9×150 sec. exposured CCD -picture. The comet is the faint misty object in the middle of the picture. The field of view is 6,3×4,6 arc minutes. (Tämä uutinen suomeksi) Observers: Veli-Pekka Hentunen and Markku Nissinen. […]
The afterglow of the GRB 071020 has been observed at Taurus Hill Observatory.
Updated 26.10.2007 (Tämä uutinen suomeksi) The first GRB afterglow has been observed at Taurus Hill Observatory when our research team members Veli-Pekka Hentunen, Markku Nissinen and Henri Taino observed the afterglow of the GRB 071020 Saturday 20./21.10.2007 23:39:18-00:23:55 (UT). Here is the official report about the observation. Report: Object: GRB 071020Observers: Markku Nissinen, Henri Taino and Veli-Pekka […]
Supernovae 2007mq and SN2007kc.
Supernova 2007mq had been found by A. Sehgal, L. Cox and Tim Puckett 15.10.2007. We took images of it unfiltered and with R filter 17/18.10.2007 night at THO. We also took images of SN2007kc. Observers: Markku Nissinen and Henri Taino.
Our youngest CCD-observer.
Tommi Kumlin has been participating THO activities many years and he has attended our CCD- and Telescope-courses and he has good knowledge of CCD-observing. Here are pictures of Messier 57 and Messier 27 taken by Tommi Kumlin. (Tämä uutinen suomeksi)
29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 observed at Taurus Hill Observatory.
29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1, discovered 1925, orbits the Sun behind the Jupiter in quite round orbit. It does not come near the Sun and therefore it can be only observed by the telescope and CCD -camera. The interesting thing in this comet is that it has a material bursts time to time. These bursts can effect so that the […]
Comet 93P/Lovas 1 photographed at Taurus Hill Observatory.
Comet 93P/Lovas 1 is near the Sun every ninth year. Comet does not reach the higher magnitude than mag. 13, so it is mainly only a comet that can be observed with telesopce and CCD -camera. Taurus Hill Observatory research group member Veli-Pekka Hentunen photographed this comet in 12./13.10.2007 4.05 – 4.23 finnish time. The comet was […]
Comet C/2007 F1 (LONEOS) observed at Taurus Hill Observatory.
The comet C/2007 F1 (LONEOS) was observed at Taurus Hill Observatory 10.10.2007 05:15 – 05:26 finnish time (+3h UTC). Just after the photographing the clouds came and it started to rain water and snow. In this picture the north is in the left and the east in the bottom. This picture is a combine of […]
Supernovae SN2007kc, SN2007kj and SN2007kk.
We took CCD images of three recently found supernovae at THO 9/19 October 2007 night. Observers: Veli-Pekka Hentunen, Markku Nissinen and Henri Taino. SN2007kc had been photographed also earlier at THO.
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