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Sep 2, 2006 5:52 am
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I keep thinking the name is Sliding Spring, but the observatory in Australia is in fact Siding Spring. This 13.4 magnitude comet(?),was formerly designated an...
Last night the skies in West Hurley (upstate New York)cleared, quicker than expected after the passage of the remnants of Tropical Storm Ernesto,so I set...
As I was under relatively dark skies this weekend, I took another look for Comet 177P/Barnard. Saturday night I found it, though it was difficult in both my...
... Is the biography by any chance called "The Immortal Fire Within"? Nothing special. Was just doing a google search for it and luckily came across the name...
For those still looking for this comet, I did see it 9/19 4:00 UT with 12" Dob fairly easily at a Bortle Scale = 1 dark site. I saw the coma as smaller than...
I should have stayed up to 3:30 am to get the comet near transit but I was too tired <G>. I managed to capture a 10 arc minute long tail 3 hours pre-transit....
HI all, Youve got to get out and see comet swan, now just off the tail of Leo (Denebola) and about 10 degrees up in the morning twilight. The comet was easily...
... This may explain why I could not see it this a.m. in 10 x 50s or an ETX- 125 - waited until 6:00 am from Tulsa, when it was 10 deg up. How far up was it...
"low" is an understatement. At 5:05 it was maybe 5 degrees up, and I could just see the head. But by 5:20 it was too light to see the tail, but the head was...
Hello Chris, Kenneth, (and Brad in Tulsa), Thanks for the informative posts. Could you tell us the locations observing from or at least the time of Sunrise? I...
MexicoDoug
mexicodoug@...
Sep 29, 2006 7:10 pm
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... observing from or at least the time of Sunrise? Doug, Tulsa is 36 N I think sunrise was 7:20 am, so I began looking 1:10 before. Trtack carries SWAN into...
HI all, The comet was stunning visually, and photographically. Here is this mornings shot: http://www.schursastrophotography.com/10dastro/swan093006.html ...
I was out for two hours this morning, and saw my two target comets. 4P/Faye, in Aries, looks a lot like it did a month ago. It may be a little bit brighter,...
Comet Swan in the morning For those who are interested in observing a bright comet (now a little below 6th magnitude) for the Siilver or Gold comet award,...
Comet Chasing Group Policies The primary mission of this group is to promote recreational comet observing with a emphasis on visual observation. Observing the...
CometChasing@yahoogro...
Oct 2, 2006 2:50 am
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Observed the comet this AM 10/2. The comet is low 5-8* or so, at 5:15am. At 34x (26N) and a 4" Televue refractor it had an obvious blue/green coma, no tail ...
I made this quick chart showing where Comet Swan is located in the sky as of October 2nd/3rd: http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b142/aa6ww/swan.jpg Some...
I had the idea that observing C/2006 T1 (Levy) would be attainable, when at 0550 hrs PDT on Oct 4th, while getting ready to go to work I noticed that Leo would...
This is a bit late but I did manage to catch a view of comets 177P/Barnard and 4P/Faye from the Houston Astronomical Society dark site roughly midway between ...
I got up Saturday morning and drove out to my favorite (close) dark site location and made an attempt to do some comet hunting. The moon was full and it was...
There are presently three bright comets to image or observe: C/2006 M4 (SWAN) magnitude 6.4 (7.9) 4P/Faye magnitude 9.4 (10.7) P/2006 T1 (Levy) magnitude 9.6...
... I'd just like to point out that's true for most software, but not all... Clear skies, Greg -- Greg Crinklaw Astronomical Software Developer Cloudcroft, New...
Dennis, Thanks for the update; A clear night on the East End of Long Island Will try to observe Dennis Persyk <dpersyk@...> wrote: There are presently...
Last night, I was able to see the comet near Gamma Bootes with 10 x 50 binocs from downtown Tulsa OK (Bortle scale = 8)! Obvious fuzzy star approximately mag...
Hi Brian, Concerning antitails and 4P/Faye(because the comet is almost in opposition)I did some remarkable observations recently.I had some discussions about...
subject: comparison M4-SWAN nucleus-area in 5 days I made a comparison of images obtained on 10/10 and 10/15.(Rot-grad filtered) The general view seems...
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