One of the best things about working with GOTO is all the pretty things we can fit into its massive field of view
This comet is one to watch out for later this month as it reaches its closest approach to Earth, and its massive tail already stretches across the fov of two of our unit telescope
☄️💫🔭
Comet C/2025 A6 L-band image taken with UT1 of the GOTO-North facility at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, 5:45am UTC on October 4th. The field is about 3x2 degrees, and the comet was approximately 7th mag at that time.
The routine all-sky survey of our GOTO telescopes at La Palma and Siding Spring uncover all sorts of unexpected objects, including comet C/2025 A6 in this nice image from October 4, spotted by Warwick U. team member @bendgodson.bsky.social. This object may be naked-eye visible later this month
Another astronomers telegram from GOTO! 🔭☄️
Last week we discovered a bright optical transient, likely a nova, close to the Large Magellanic Cloud.
It's currently around magnitude 12, so very easy to observe for those who are far south enough to see the LMC.
www.astronomerstelegram.org?read=17400
Astronomy picture of the day website showing an image of the supernova 2025rbs in the galaxy NGC 7331 by Ben Godson
Got my first APOD today!
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25073...
It’s maybe not my best image in a technical sense, but it does highlight a very cool transient event which you can see in the sky right now!
☄️🔭 #astrophoto
Bright supernova alert! SN 2025rbs in the galaxy NGC 7331 is peaking now around 11th magnitude, easily visible in small telescopes!
Discovered earlier this month by @goto-network.bsky.social, you can find out more about it in this recent post goto-observatory.org/bright-super...
🔭☄️ #astrophoto
Dome of the 3.5m telescope at calar alto shown during sunset
The 3.5m Zeiss telescope at calar alto observatory
Zeiss reflector shown side on with its large blue equatorial mount
Some of the 3.5m at sunrise
Visited Calar Alto observatory for the first time last week!
We were observing newly discovered supernovae with the 2.2m telescope, but it was the 3.5m Zeiss reflector that caught my attention. One of the coolest mounts and domes i’ve seen!
#astro #astronomy
Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS low on the horizon between the two domes of the GOTO North telescopes. Its tail stretches upwards across the starry sky
Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS setting over our observatory at the end of last year. By far the most impressive comet of my adult life.
Ganymede transiting Jupiter captured last week by one of our telescopes in La Palma
