Guillaume Doyen
Located in the Andromeda constellation, the Titan Nebula is a gigantic shell of ionized gas extending over a portion of the sky as wide as 3 times the angular size of a full moon! Discovered by a team of three amateur astronomers from the USA, France and Germany, the Patchick-Strottner-Drechsler 9...
Guillaume Doyen
The company Vaonis, based in Montpellier, today announced the launch of the flagship of its range of connected observation stations: Hyperia, a fully automated instrument, equipped with the very latest technological advances in astrophotography. Hyperia is aimed not only at lovers of the field but...
Guillaume Doyen
La société Vaonis, basée à Montpellier, annonce aujourd'hui le lancement du fleuron de sa gamme de stations d'observations connectées : Hyperia, un instrument entièrement automatisé, doté des toutes dernières avancées technologies en matière d'astrophotographie. Hyperia s'adresse non seulement aux...
Guillaume Doyen
A team of amateur and professional astronomers have released astonishing pictures of planet Mars using a 1-meter diameter ground-based telescope. They carried on their observations for several nights and ended up forming, what one thinks to be, the most resolved map of Mars ever obtained from...
Guillaume Doyen
546 megapixels is the full resolution of this panoramic view of a region of the Milky Way photographed using a new-generation telescope built for mainstream users. In addition to a breathtaking resolution, this amazing deep view of the Carina and Centaurus constellations is the result of 336 hours...
Guillaume Doyen
Bien que Vénus soit le troisième objet le plus lumineux de notre ciel après le Soleil et la Lune, cette planète lorsqu'elle est observée avec un télescope, n'est pas pour autant aussi stupéfiante que Saturne, Jupiter ou encore Mars. Son atmosphère extrêmement réfléchissante est tellement brillante...
Guillaume Doyen
Although Venus is the third brightest object of our sky after the Sun and the Moon, this planet is not as mesmerizing as Saturn, Jupiter or Mars when observed through a telescope. Its highly-reflective atmosphere is so bright that it looks like a featureless white dot. However, an amateur...
Guillaume Doyen
On July 2, 2019, a Total Solar Eclipse occurred over South America, plunging professional observatories across Chile into darkness for up to 2 minutes 30 seconds. The path of the moon's shadow just passed over the ESO's La Silla ESO Observatory: a unique event which is not about to happen until...
Guillaume Doyen
L'astrophotographie est à part entière un moyen de vulgariser l'astronomie. Les images Juan-Carlos Muñoz est un astronome expérimenté tutoyant l'un des ciels les plus somptueux du monde et faisant cette usage de l'astrophotographie. AstroSpace a eu l'opportunité de le rencontrer lors de l'éclipse...
Guillaume Doyen
Astrophotography can sometimes be considered as a mean of popularizing astronomy. Images illustrate some technical and scientific concepts which remain difficult to imagine. Juan-Carlos Muñoz is an experienced astronomer who loves sharing his passion through capturing the sky of one of the...
Guillaume Doyen
Every total solar eclipse is unique, but the one happening on July 2, 2019 is even more outstanding. Why? For the first time, Chile's astronomical observatories will witness a total eclipse of our Star! In the past, only two professional observatories had the same opportunity in the 20th century:...
Guillaume Doyen
Toutes les éclipses totales de soleil sont uniques, mais celle du 2 juillet 2019 l'est encore plus. Pourquoi ? Pour la première fois les observatoires astronomiques du Chili assisteront à une éclipse totale de soleil. A titre de comparaison, seuls deux observatoires au 20ième siècle ont pu...
Guillaume Doyen
May 29, 1919 was a great day for modern astronomy, especially as far as Einstein's physics is concerned. For the first time in history, the theory of General Relativity was verified for real: an experiment led by astronomer A.Eddington and based on observing the 1919 total solar eclipse....
Guillaume Doyen
Le 29 Mai 1919 fut un grand jour pour l'astronomie moderne, en particulier pour la physique d'Einstein. Pour la première fois dans l'histoire, la théorie de la relativité Générale fut vérifiée par une observation tout-à-fait réelle : celle de l'éclipse totale de soleil de 1919, dont l'observation...
Guillaume Doyen
Do you know La Silla? It is the first European Observatory ever built in Chile. 2019 is a special year since it celebrates the 50th inauguration anniversary of La Silla! One must give back a huge recognition to this pioneer observatory since it was the first to develop and embed technological...
Guillaume Doyen
Connaissez-vous La Silla ? Il s'agit du premier observatoire Européen construit au Chili et inauguré il y a 50 ans cette année! On doit à La Silla un grand nombre d'innovations technologiques aujourd'hui appliquées aux plus grands observatoires du monde : par exemple l'optique active et l'optique...
Guillaume Doyen
1060 is the number of hours needed to capture this highly-resolved image (204 Megapixels) of the Large Magellanic Cloud. It might be the world's longest exposure image within the amateur astronomers community. In astrophotography, the amount of time you spend imaging a celestial object is...
Guillaume Doyen
For the first time, astronomers observed an extra-solar planet named HR 8799e using the optical interferometry method. This technical achievement was realized from the European Paranal Observatory in Chile with the four 8-meter VLT telescopes (Very Large Telescope). Artist's impression of the...
Guillaume Doyen
Pour la première fois, des astronomes ont pu observer une planète extra-solaire nommée HR 8799e en utilisant la méthode d'interférométrie optique. Cet accomplissement technique a été réalisé depuis l'observatoire Européen de Paranal, au Chili avec les 4 télescopes de 8 mètres du VLT (Very Large...
Guillaume Doyen
Close-up animation of International Space Station docked with the SpaceX Dragon showing the SpaceX Crew Dragon on top. Credit: Nagy Szabolcs The space news was recently highlighted by a master stroke from the American company SpaceX: the first demonstration mission of the habitable Crew...