Transit Dreams Observatory awarded code W33 from the Minor Planet Center This announcement is late, but I wanted to share it with our friends here who don’t follow us on Facebook. I am proud to announce the International Astronomical Union’s … Continue reading
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Website Update Well I finally got around to updating some of this site. I’ve changed the color scheme to black and white to hopefully modernize it and make it easier to read. I am not a web programmer by any … Continue reading
Galaxy NGC 891 NGC 891 is an edge-on spiral galaxy 30 million light years away in the constellation of Andromeda. You can see its faint dust lane along the plane of the galaxy because of its orientation to our line of … Continue reading
Comet 88P/Howell I imaged Comet P88/Howell in September. It is located in the constellation of Aries. The comet was a bit fainter than the 11.2 magnitude estimated by my Skytools software. You can see the faint tail extending out past … Continue reading
Asteroid (1284) Latvia is a main belt asteroid about 37 km in diameter with an orbit around the Sun of 1572 Earth days. It was discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth in July 1933. It was named after the Republic … Continue reading