Curated category
Objects observed by stellar occultation
- HaumeaOn the 28th of December 2004, a team led by Mike Brown at Caltech spotted the object that would become Haumea. They captured images on the 6th of May 2004…
- Hiʻiaka (moon)Michael E. Brown spotted the moon on the 26th of January 2005 using adaptive optics at the W. M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii.
- Vanth (moon)On the 13th of November 2005, images from the Hubble Space Telescope revealed a faint dot near the dwarf planet Orcus. Michael Brown and Terry-Ann Suer…
- PlutoOn the 18th of February 1930, Clyde Tombaugh spotted a faint moving point of light on photographic plates taken at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
- MakemakeOn the 31st of March 2005, astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David Rabinowitz captured images of a faint point of light using the 1.22-meter…
- Eris (dwarf planet)On the 5th of January 2005, a team led by Mike Brown at Palomar Observatory announced the discovery of Eris. The object had actually been captured in images…
- Triton (moon)On the 10th of October 1846, English astronomer William Lassell spotted a faint point of light moving against the backdrop of stars.
- 2 PallasHeinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers spotted a moving object on the night of the 28th of March 1802. This discovery occurred just months after Giuseppe Piazzi…
- Ceres (dwarf planet)Giuseppe Piazzi, a Catholic priest at the academy of Palermo in Sicily, spotted a moving starlike object on the 1st of January 1801.
- Charon (moon)On the 22nd of June 1978, astronomer James Christy examined photographic plates at the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station.
- 10199 CharikloOn the 15th of February 1997, James V. Scotti pointed a telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. He was part of the University of Arizona's…
- 541132 LeleākūhonuaAstronomers David Tholen, Chad Trujillo and Scott Sheppard spotted a faint point of light on the 13th of October 2015. They were using the Subaru Telescope…