Event: V5588 SGR = NOVA SAGITTARII 2011 No. 2 = PNV J18102135-2305306
Discovered by: Koichi Nishiyama, Kurume, Japan, and Fujio Kabashima, Miyaki, Japan
Discovery Date: ~ 2011 March 27.832 UT
Discovery Magnitude: unfiltered CCD magnitude mag 11.7 on two 40-s unfiltered CCD frames using a … Read the rest of this article
| The SLOOH Interface |
SLOOH is a robotic observatory on the Canary Islands. Every Monday, whenever conditions permit viewing, you can participate in multiple SLOOH “missions” over the course of an hour-long session.
What does SLOOH stand for? Apparently it’s about putting the OOH into SLEW!
High atop Mount Teide, on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, the telescopes of SLOOH stand … Read the rest of this article
Event: Nova in Sagittarius (V5584 Sgr = N Sgr 2009 No. 4)
Discovered By: Koichi Nishiyama, Kurume, Fukuoka-ken, Japan, and F. Kabashima, Miyaki-cho, Saga-ken, Japan
Discovery Date: Oct. 26.439 UT (two frames from Oct. 26.439 and 26.440)
Discovery Magnitude: unfiltered CCD magnitude 9.3, using a … Read the rest of this article
Discovered Independently By:
a. – Koichi Nishiyama, Kurume, Fukuoka-ken, Japan, and Fujio Kabashima, Miyaki-cho, Saga-ken, Japan
b. – Grzegorz Pojmanski, Dorota Szczygiel, and Bogumil Pilecki, Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory, observed by ASAS3
Discovery Date: Read the rest of this article
a. – Aug. 6.494 and 6.495 UT, confirmed on five frames taken around Aug. …
Discovered By: G. Pojmanski, D. Szczygiel, and B. Pilecki (Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory)
Discovery Date: 2009 May 08.235
Discovery Magnitude: m=8.235 (ASAS V)
Position: RA = 13h 31m 15.76s , Dec = -63d 57m 38.5s (from L. Elenin, Moscow, Russia, using the Tzec Maun-Pingelly 0.15-m refractor near Perth, Australia)
Charts:… Read the rest of this article
By Tim Carr
The great Mongol empire was not noted for its scientific achievements and with good reason. But in 1428 Tamerlanes’ grandson Muhammed Targai Ulugh-Beg, who was governor in part of central Asia, established an astronomical observatory at Samarkand.
As the telescope was still centuries away, astronomers had to content themselves with naked-eye observation. He published a … Read the rest of this article
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