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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On September 8, 2026, I observed the bright supernova SN 2026aaiv in NGC 7331 using remote telescopes of iTelescope.Net. Color photo: 6x240 sec., stacked from the frames obtained with the 0.28-m telescope T68. @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social #PhotoHour #StormHour #astronomy #NGC7331

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On August 31, 2026, at the 0.43-m remote telescope T32 of iTelescope.Net, I confirmed comet P12pb3b = C/2026 P2 (PANSTARRS); I measured the coma diameter = 6 arcsec. My data: MPEC: www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K26/K26... CBET: www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005... Photo: stacked 9x300 sec.

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The Moon and Venus on the evening of September 14, 2026, above the Sea of Japan, imaged in Yuzhno-Morskoy using a mobile phone camera. I also observed them with the unaided eye while it was still daytime. @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social #PhotoHour #StormHour #astronomy #MoonVenus

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Before the date (in which we were sadly alone together with my poor mother, - whose anemia is progressing,- because our cat Fanya did not live to see this date - our pet died in 2025): 17 years since I started studying astronomy on self-education (since August 17, 2009), in my housing trouble ...

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In the 2026-08-09 photos taken by the Liverpool Telescope for my asteroid searches, I found a possible SN. I checked it in the TNS: this transient AT 2026srj www.wis-tns.org/object/2026srj had been discovered a month earlier. I measured its brightness = 19.7 +/- 0.2 r'. Photo: stacked 6x60 sec.

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My reports about observations of the Perseids with the unaided eye in Yuzhno-Morskoy: Aug 11/12 imo.net/members/imo_... imo.net/members/imo_... Aug 12/13 imo.net/members/imo_... Aug 13 imo.net/members/imo_... I didn't have opportunity to take photos: my Canon 60D camera stopped working this year

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

On August 27, 2026, I observed bright Nova Sge 2026 = V488 Sge using the remote 0.61-m telescope T24 of iTelescope.Net. My data: 04:23:42 UT 8.508 B +/- 0.038 04:24:23 UT 7.747 V +/- 0.019 Photo: 3x120 sec. (R+G+B). @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social #astronomy #PhotoHour #StormHour

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

On July 29, 2026, at 0.43-m T32 of iTelescope.Net, I observed comet 10P/Tempel (near the full Moon). Photo: 3 120-sec. frames, R+G+B On August 2, 2026, at 0.43-m iTelescope.Net T21, I observed supernova SN 2026sqf in NGC 3310. Photo: 300 sec., Rc filter #comet10P #SN2026sqf @astrodave.bsky.social

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

On 2026-07-18 I observed a comet candidate RMM2026 (from The Possible Comet (and A/ objects) Confirmation Page), remotely using 2-m Liverpool Telescope. My astrometry: RMM2026 KC2026 07 18.01766019 50 39.577-22 16 43.48 21.2 r J13 I stacked 7x60s., did not detect the coma or tail.

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I observed the Sun with the unaided eye (through pieces of solar film) from Yuzhno-Morskoy,Nakhodka: 06/29: AR 4478 as 2 distinct dots; 06/30: +AR 4479 as a single elongated, low-contrast spot; 07/01: two spots each in AR 4478 and in AR 4479; 07/02: the same view as on June 30 #PhotoHour #StormHour

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

On 2026-06-20 I remotely obtained a spectrum of T CrB using the 2-m Liverpool Telescope and submitted to the AAVSO: apps.aavso.org/avspec/obs/2... The intensity of the Hα line appears the same as in 2024. Previous: apps.aavso.org/avspec/obs/1... 2024-06-20 apps.aavso.org/avspec/obs/1... 2025-07-18

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Papers co-authored by me in Astronomy & Astrophysics: Gaia20fnr: A binary-lens microlensing event with full orbital motion revealed by four space telescopes doi.org/10.1051/0004... Multi-epoch afterglow rebrightenings in GRB 250129A: Evidence of successive shock interactions doi.org/10.1051/0004...

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

On 2026-06-21 (on the day of the June solstice), remotely at 0.43-m iTelescope.Net T21, I observed the potentially hazardous asteroid (152637) 1997 NC1. My astrometry: www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K26/K26... #PhotoHour #StormHour #astronomy #space @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Venus-Jupiter conjunction on June 9, 2026, above the "Fisherman" statue in Yuzhno-Morskoy, Primorsky Krai, imaged with a mobile phone camera In the 1st photo, the hat looks like Saturn with rings, the planets look like its moons @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social #PhotoHour #StormHour

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

On June 5, 2026, I observed comet 220P/McNaught in the outburst remotely at iTelescope.Net T26 (0.51-m f/3 reflector + CMO). Photo: stacked 18 images with 30 and 60 sec. exposures. I also observed supernova SN 2026obc at T24 and at T21. @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social #PhotoHour

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Supernova SN 2026kid in NGC 5907 imaged using 0.43-m iTelescope.Net T21. My photometry: 2026-05-02.19501 15.722 V 02.20261 16.939 B 02.21015 14.944 Rc 02.21924 14.152 Ic I also observe SN 2026gzf and upload photometry to the AAVSO database. @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

On Astronomy Day I am publishing my photographs of the transit of Mercury taken 10 years ago: on May 9, 2016, in Moscow. Photo 4: at the sunset with a green flash, video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkIo... #PhotoHour #StormHour #astronomy #AstronomyDay @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

I observed Artemis II (Orion) spacecraft using 0.51-m remote telescopes of iTelescope.Net in Australia: On 2026-04-02 - 15:24-15:51 UT. On 2026-04-03- 13:07-13:20 UT. My video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlWT... #ArtemisII #spacecraft #Orionspacecraft @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

It’s getting tough for amateur astronomers to breakthrough with new discoveries. Many have simply took their quest online... but @filipp-romanov.bsky.social was able to nab asteroid 2026 CQ3 last month. Here’s our post on the discovery for @universetoday.com www.universetoday.com/articles/ded...

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Dedicated Amateur Beats All-Sky Surveys to Asteroid Discovery

The modern era of all-sky surveys including Pan-STARRS, ATLAS and now the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have given amateur astronomers some stiff competition. But many amateurs have simply upped their gam...

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

A group of migratory #birds in V formation at sunset above the Sea of Japan on March 23, 2026 - on World Meteorological Day. Imaged with mobile phone camera on the coast in Yuzhno-Morskoy, Nakhodka, Primorsky Krai #WorldMetDay #PhotoHour #StormHour @wmo-global.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

A few days ago the paper "Discovery and Photometric-Spectroscopic Studies of Apollo Asteroid 2024 QS" has been published mpbulletin.org/issues/MPB_5... in the Minor Planet Bulletin (peer-reviewed scientific journal) Issue 53-2 on the pages 127-128,where I am the first author. @astrodave.bsky.social

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Another asteroid was numbered: (887101) 2025 OP22 - discovered by me on 2025 July 30 at the Liverpool Telescope: www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCA...

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Two more asteroids discovered by me were named: (875129) Abbeyridgeobs - after Abbey Ridge Observatory in Canada. (875150) Burkegaffneyobs - after the Burke-Gaffney Observatory of Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada More information: www.facebook.com/romanov.phil... #astronomy

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

On 2026-03-15,at iTelescope.Net T21, I observed optical afterglow of GRB 260310A (AT 2026fgk) gcn.nasa.gov/circulars/44... I became co-author of preprint arxiv.org/abs/2603.08555 "Multi-epoch afterglow rebrightenings in GRB 250129A: Evidence for successive shock interactions" @astrodave.bsky.social

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

On 2026-02-21 I observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at the Liverpool Telescope: www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K26/K26... (then observed on March 16); On 2026-02-28, at 0.51-m iTelescope.Net T59, I confirmed comet A11yzTN = C/2026 C1 (Tsuchinshan): www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K26/K26... #comet

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

On March 12, 2026, it was a year since the death of our 19.5-year-old cat Fanya. She did not live to see the end of our housing trouble and set off on her last journey, we said goodbye to her forever. More about this: www.facebook.com/romanov.phil... #cat #longlivedcat #pet #astrocat #lastjourney

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Solar halo and sundogs on March 2, 2026, above the Sea of Japan. Photographed in Yuzhno-Morskoy, Nakhodka, near the lighthouse chapel. #PhotoHour #StormHour @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I observed total lunar eclipse on 2026-03-03 in Yuzhno-Morskoy, Nakhodka, with the unaided eye. The sky was heavily clouded, the Moon was barely visible. My damaged Canon 60D camera stopped working, so I did videos through its viewfinder using a mobile phone camera: attaching the results of stacking

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

On 2026-02-15, at the 2-m Liverpool Telescope, I found near-Earth asteroid, it was designated 2026 CQ3 www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K26/K26... Orbit type: Amor, passed at 21 LD on 13 Feb 2026. Previously I found NEA 2024 QS. @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social #PhotoHour #StormHour

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

On 2026-02-12 I confirmed comet P22lbY0 = C/2026 B3 (PANSTARRS) at the Liverpool Telescope, my astrometry: www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K26/K26... I also continue to observe the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, my astrometry: www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K26/K26... Photos: 2026-01-28, 02-08, 02-17.

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

On the evening of Feb 4, 2026, in Yuzhno-Morskoy, Nakhodka, at sunset, I saw sunspot group AR14366 with the unaided eye, appearing as 2 distinct dots. I took a video using my mobile phone camera, stacked in RegiStax 5.1; I'm attaching photos of the Sun above the Sea of Japan. #PhotoHour #StormHour

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

In January 2026, it was 10 years since I discovered the first variable star: NSVS 3246176 vsx.aavso.org/index.php?vi... I am currently the discoverer of 82 variable stars, including V1905 Cen = Romanov V20 about which I wrote a scientific paper apps.aavso.org/jaavso/artic... published in the JAAVSO.

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VSX : Detail for NSVS 3246176

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Recent paper with my co-authorship was published doi.org/10.1093/pasj... in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan: "Observational study of double superoutbursts in long-orbital-period AM CVn stars" (I observed remotely using the Burke-Gaffney Observatory and the Abbey Ridge Observatory).

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Observational study of double superoutbursts in long-orbital-period AM CVn stars

Abstract. We present an observational study of superoutbursts in six AM CVn systems with orbital periods longer than 35 min. We focused on this range becau

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Now I am the discoverer of 12 asteroids, these were recently numbered: (847420) 2025 KN2 (875129) 2024 SM9 (875149) 2025 HE6 (875150) 2025 KX5 (847420) Livtel was named in Jan 2026: in WGSBN Bulletin 6, #1 www.wgsbn-iau.org/files/Bullet... in honor of the Liverpool Telescope. @astrodave.bsky.social

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using the Liverpool Telescope: on Jan 11 www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K26/K26... (photo 1) and on Jan 20 (image 2) I confirmed www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K26/K26... comet 6AC4721 = C/2026 A1 (MAPS) remotely at T59 of iTelescope.Net @astrodave.bsky.social

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I observed the Quadrantid meteor shower on 2026-01-03 from Yuzhno-Morskoy, Nakhodka My report to the International Meteor Organization www.imo.net/members/imo_... @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social #PhotoHour #StormHour #meteors #Quadrantids2026 #Quadrantids #meteorshower #astronomy

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

One of the most interesting comets of this year: C/2025 K1 (ATLAS): fragments A, C and B, observed by me on 2025-11-21 remotely using 0.61-m telescope of the Burke-Gaffney Observatory. Image: stacked 90x5 sec. @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social #PhotoHour #StormHour #comet #astronomy

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

2026 promises to be another busy year for space weather and skywatching. Read all about what to expect in our latest post for @universetoday.com - www.universetoday.com/articles/top...

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS and asteroid (65) Cybele on 2025-12-05 (11:48 - 12:42 UT). Images: 7x60 sec. iTelescope.Net T21: 0.43-m f/6.8 reflector + CCD + f/4.5 focal reducer in Utah, USA. @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social #PhotoHour #StormHour #3IATLAS #comet3I #interstellarcomet

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

My photos of the total lunar eclipse 15 years ago: on December 21, 2010, taken from Livadiya, Nakhodka, using Sony DSC-W150 camera and 60/350 mm telescope. This was the second total lunar eclipse I observed. @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social #PhotoHour #StormHour #solstice #astronomy

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

My new photos of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS: 1- 2025-12-05 with (65) Cybele at 0.43-m iTelescope.Net T21 (U94); 2- 2025-12-15 at T21; 3- 2025-12-19 at the 2-m Liverpool Telescope (J13). @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social #PhotoHour #StormHour #3IATLAS #comet3I #interstellarcomet

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

On 2025-12-14/15 I observed the Geminids from Yuzhno-Morskoy, Nakhodka. My report to the International Meteor Organization: imo.net/members/imo_... I am attaching photos (taken by Canon EOS 60D camera). @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social #PhotoHour #StormHour #Geminids #Geminids2025

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

My new photos of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS: 1- 2025-11-24 at 0.43-m iTelescope.Net T21 (U94); 2- 2025-12-03 at 0.61-m iTelescope.Net T24 (U69); 3- 2025-12-04 at T21; 4- 2025-12-06 at the 2-m Liverpool Telescope (J13). #3IATLAS #comet3I #interstellarcomet #astronomy @astrodave.bsky.social

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

On 2025-11-30 confirmed comet STO1338 = C/2025 W1 (Sankovich) at 0.43-m iTelescope.Net T32. My data www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K25/K25... Observed comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS): on 2025-11-25 at Burke-Gaffney Observatory; on 2025-11-26 + 2025-12-03: at 2-m Liverpool Telescope @astrodave.bsky.social

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

One of my best images of the green flash. I took this photo during sunset above the Sea of Japan on December 8, 2021, from Yuzhno-Morskoy, near Nakhodka, Primorsky Krai, using my Canon EOS 60D camera. @davidbflower.bsky.social #greenflash #sunset #PhotoHour #StormHour

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I found a possible bright (likely one of the brightest) missed supernova in ESO 157-27 galaxy on the POSS-II F plate taken on 1994-12-28. I measured magnitude R = 12.3. Now this is AT 1994au www.wis-tns.org/object/1994au (in the TNS). @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social #astronomy

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I measured the magnitude of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from my photos (July 17th - October 2nd) using Tycho Tracker v.12.6 software. I used the ATLAS catalog and 10000 km aperture radius. I am attaching the light curve. #astronomy #interstellarcomet #comet3I #comet3IATLAS @astrodave.bsky.social

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Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

I observed comet C/2013 C2 (TENAGRA) during its outburst in brightness at high heliocentric distance on 2025-10-12 near 20:45 UT, using 2.0-m f/10 Liverpool Telescope. My data were published in the CBET 5619 www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iau/cbet/005... @astrodave.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social

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Larisa Romanova @larisa-romanova.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

On April 7, 2025, asteroid 2023 RY151 discovered by my son Filipp Romanov @filipp-romanov.bsky.social was named (773906) Larisaromanova after me: information is published wgsbn-iau.org/files/Bullet... in the WGSBN Bulletin 5, #5, p.27 Source of image: ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_l... #WorldSpaceWeek

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Astronomy is becoming an online affair. A recent find shows what’s possible, as devoted amateur astronomer @filipp-romanov.bsky.social discovered a supernova in a remote galaxy. Here’s our latest post on the find and how he did it for @universetoday.com - www.universetoday.com/articles/ded...

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Dedicated Amateur Discovers Supernova in Remote Galaxy

Astronomy is increasingly becoming an online affair. Recent discoveries of interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS and R2 SWAN highlighted this fact, when both were first discussed on message boards and verified ...

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