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| The Virtual Telescope Project |
The live session offered by The Virtual Telescope Project to the public (here) was quite a surreal experience. We've seen a good number of images of our Visitor by now thanks to amateur Astronomers, be it a highly pixelated blob or the more recent stunning ones with quite a fair bit of detail ~ but to actually see 3I/Atlas move across Space at an incredible speed is something else altogether. Even a layperson like me could tell that it was obviously travelling at a tremendous velocity, powering onwards determinedly as if on a mission of paramount importance (which imho, it is).
Many thanks to The Virtual Telescope Project for making this livestream public, and to all the amateur Astronomers who have brought us some remarkable photos of 3I/Atlas over the past months ~ much gratitude for all your time and effort!
Now we come to the much-anticipated event promised by Nasa ~ the release of 3I/Atlas images taken by their powerful "advanced" (and extremely costly) equipment in Space and on the ground.
Due to timezone difference, I didn't watch the "press conference" until just a couple of hours ago. I did my best to watch the show (that's what it was) but just couldn't go beyond a few minutes 😣 Instead, I looked around online to find what ground-breaking data they had shown. This was the most recent image (2 Oct) from Nasa's own website (bearing in mind the amateur Astronomers have already given us some stunning images from as recent as 17 November):
Odear.
Namarie! 💝
