In the Transient Sky – February 2013

February 2013 Highlights * Not one but two comets should be naked eye brightness for SH observers (C/2011 L4 and … More

Comets from the VATT

Last week I spent three nights observing asteroids and comet with the Vatican Observatory’s 1.8-m VATT telescope on Mount Graham … More

January 2013 Highlights * Quadrantid meteor shower peaks on the morning of January 3 * Jupiter is bright in the … More

2013 promises to be another great year for observers of the Transient Sky! Right now, it looks like we will … More

I last reported on newly (re)-discovered comet C/2012 V4 back on December 8. Though comet C/2012 V4 has been linked … More

This week sees the appearance of one of the years best meteor showers, the Geminids, this Thursday evening. But before … More

Comet Pons-Gambart may be the center of attention in the comet community lately, but it is not the only comet … More

Comet C/2012 V4 (which is mostly likely a return of Comet Pons-Gambart) was discovered on images taken by the solar … More

Last evening (Dec. 7 UT) the sky was finally free of cirrus and I was able to see newly discovered … More

On June 21, 1827, French astronomers Jean Louis Pons and Jean-Félix Adolphe Gambart discovered a comet among the stars of … More