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Last night I imaged three comets in Gemini: C/2007 N3 Lunin mag 9.1 144P Kushida, mag 11.5 C/2006 OF2 Broughton mag 12.2 Epsilon 160 f/3.3, SXV-H9 camera...
Hi Dennis, Sorry about that. I had the date fixed in my program at May while I was working on it recently and I forgot to switch it back. It's fixed now. You...
I observed the comet C/2006W3 at Poltava gravimetric observatory with 200mm refractor on July 02/03 (00:20-01:00 EEST). [astronomic twilight, good sky...
July 17/18 C/2006 W3 (Christensen): I first observed this comet during last year's Oregon Star Party. It has brightened to magnitude 8-9; I think I could ...
** Confidential ** Wes, great stuff. I was able to observe and image W3 Christensen on the July 14. My observations and images do support your findings. I am...
Just curious if anyone can explain Heaven's Above showing C/2008 O2 McNaught as mag 9.2 in Cassiopeia. Obviously an error, but why? I sent an email to Chris...
C/2009 Q5 (McNaught) is a new discovery (September 1) by R.H. McNaught of Australia (his 50th). This comet is currently 16th magnitude and brightening. C/2009...
see is the same is just depending on your sky hart software www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/SoftwareEls.html ... From:"Vello Tabur" <vello@...> ...
Hi, ... Unfortunately you can't trust the comet data presented at Heavens Above, which is something that has been frustrating me for some time. Chris has done...
Hi Greg, thanks for the very detailed reply!. I did not expect such an effort and now feel bad that I did not provide a bit of my history. I have been...
Hi, I saw a big bright green comet tonight at about 8 pm , I was in a park with friends ,so several of us saw it cross the sky , it was so beautiful, well , I...
It was probably a meteor, a bolide, since comets do not cross the sky that quickly. These happen from time to time, and are often called "comets" since they,...
What M watson means is a water dump from a Space Shuttle (which is in fact water). But these don't usually look green, nor are they typically so obvious that...
I agree with Greg; this was very likely a very spectacular and colorful bolide. Dr. Clay _____ Arkansas Sky Observatories MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South ...
It was a bolide. I live across the water from Seattle, on Vancouver island, and there were sightings here and in Vancouver. It sounds like it was spectacular,...
Heaven's Above is not a reliable source of comet information. It was way back in 2003 that I first sent Chris Peat, the developer of Heaven's Above, a note...
The Good News: Comet C/2008 P1 is the only comet in the sky right now with a nice long tail. I imaged it last night with a 4-arc minute long beautiful tail....
Hi folks I have a beautiful sky here on Eastern Long Island tonight so I'm going out later to observe; Dennis thanks for your info - I'll try to observe later ...
What you saw was a rocket launch from Wallops Island tonight. I followed it online and finally at launch time, went out side and looked from my backyard in...
Thanks Russ My father in law was disapointed He was hoping for space aliens In the meantime the sky here in Westhampton Beach is the best in a long time Happy...
Thanks It was all over the local media It was quite a sight !!!! Sent from my iPhone On Sep 20, 2009, at 3:43 AM, "Joe Stieber" <jas@...> wrote: It was...
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