The CMOR radar map today (28 April) already marks a distinct activity from the Eta Aquariids radiant. This shower of swift meteors (66 km/s) is associated with the famous comet 1P/Halley (also parent of the October Orionids) and...
Read MoreNikita Kulanov reports about a fireball over Russia, brighter than the Full Moon captured by the URSA network in Finland as well as from Russia and Sweden. A little before dusk, the sky lit up and lightened the landscape in blue...
Read MoreThe first 4 Lyrid orbits of 2016 were collected in the night of 17-18 April 2016 when in total 84 orbits were collected by the Benelux CAMS network. The nights of 19-20 and 20-21 April produced much better Lyrid rates. For 19-20...
Read MoreMarch 2016 continued the wet and cloudy season of previous few months. March 2016 was not blessed with many clear nights but still 856 orbits were collected in 23 nights. In March 2014, when 793 orbits were collected in 24...
Read MoreThe Slovak Facebook page ‘Slovenská ústredná hvezdáreň’ announced the sad news that Teodor Pintér, former General Director of the Slovak Central Observatory in Hurbanovo, has deceased. Teodor Pintér died on March...
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