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181: Three comets photgraphed at Taurus Hill Observatory
Veli-Pekka Hentunen photographed three comets at Taurus Hill Observatory 2./3.3.2008. The weather was quite poor, the mist was present and few times Veli-Pekka has to stop the photographing du..
182: Exoplanets HAT-P-3b and TrES-2b observed at Taurus Hill Observatory
Research team member Veli-Pekka Hentunen measured the lightcurves of the HAT-P-3b and TrES-2b 26./27.2.2008 at Taurus Hill Observatory. He used clear filter for both measurement and the exposure ti..
183: Asteroid 369 Aeria measured at Taurus Hill Observatory
Asteroid 369 Aeria is an asteroid that has a diameter about 60 km. It has about 4.787 hour revolution time. Veli-Pekka Hentunen measured asteroids lightcurve 5 hours 18 minutes ..
184: Comet Wirtanen photographed by the Veli-Pekka Hentunen
Comet 46P/Wirtanen photographed at Taurus Hill Observatory in the evening of 22.2.2008. The full moon made the observation a bit difficult, but still there is a quite bright object in the picture b..
185: Orion Nebula Messier 42
After long cloudy period it was clear weather 15/16.2.2008 night. I photographed the central parts of Messier 42 using 12 inch Meade and Canon EOS 350D. In the second image also M43 is visible abov..
186: Asteroid 2007 TU24 photographed at Taurus Hill observatory (updated 31.1.08)
Asteroid 2007 TU24 passed the Earth in the morning of the 29.1.2008 and at the nearest point it was about 540 000 km away from the Earth. Veli-Pekka Hentunen managed to photograph the ast..
187: Taurus Hill Observatory is participating in OJ287 research
The team led by professor Mauri Valtonen of Turku University in Finland has weighed the most massive black hole known. Object has mass of 18 billion times the mass of our Sun. It is though six time..
188: Color picture of 8P/Tuttle
Comet 8P/Tuttle is rapidly moving down and soon it becames more difficult to observe from northern hemisphere. But still it is very well located quite high in the nighttime sky. We took color pictu..
189: Supernova SN2007sr
After long asteroid 48 Doris light curve measurement we took CCD image of southernly bright supernova SN2007sr, which is in NGC 4038, Antennae galaxy. It was only about 6 degrees above horizon when..
190: Asteroid 49 Doris observed at Taurus Hill Observatory
Asteroid 49 Doris is a very large object. It has a diameter of 222 km and the rotation time is about 11,9 hours. At time of the measurements that were made 5./6.1.2008 at THO, the asteroid Doris wa..
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