Categorie: Transients
Wikipedia: “A Transient is an astronomical object or phenomenon whose duration may be from seconds to days, weeks, or even several years. This is in contrast to the timescale of the millions or billions of years during which the galaxies and their component stars in our universe have evolved.”
This category houses images of Asteroids, Comets, Novae and Transit Events.
I wanted to dedicate a special category to these because these images really are ‘snapshots’ of objects on one particular place and time in space. There will never be any way to replicate them, making them all … unique.
Below is a list of all objects, I’m adding new pictures to the original topics. Topics are sorted by update.
29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann (P/1908 IV)
Discovery Discovered by Arnold SchwassmannArno Arthur Wachmann Discovery date November 15, 1927 Alternative designations 1908 IV; 1927 II; 1941…
C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos)
This comet had just undergone a breakup event, thus making it very hard to stack the images. Images were manually…
C/2022 QE78 (ATLAS)
Caught just 2 days to its closest approach, just out the orbit of Jupiter, C/2022 QE78 is just shy of…
3i (ATLAS)
In this stack, comet 3i was accompanied by 2 galaxies: NGC 2530 (right) and UGC 4232 (under)
24P (Schaumasse)
First image of 2026, and also the first image taken with the new mini pc and NINA. It has been…
C/2025 K1 (ATLAS)
Comet 2025 K1 has broken up into at least 3 pieces. At the moment of this image, the comet is…
C/2025 T1 (ATLAS)
Comet 2025 T1 (ATLAS) on nov, 21 2025. On this moment this is the brightest comet in the Northern Hemisphere….
C/2025 A6 (LEMMON)
Finally there was a break in the clouds, but not much, so I could snap 7 images without too many…
C/2024 S1 (ATLAS)
Object A11bP7i was Discovered by ATLAS on september 27, photographed on october 1: The green glow reveils it to be…
(1) Ceres
Although located on the main asteroid belt, former asteroid (1) Ceres is currently defined as a minor planet. 29/08/2016: …
