Comet Chasing Group Policies The mission of the group is to promote recreational comet observing with a focus on visual observation. Let's get more people...
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Sep 1, 2005 6:28 pm
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I was able to observe C/2005 P3 (SWAN) at the Oregon Star Party on September 2/3. In a 10" Dob, it was faint and round with a diameter of 3.5' and a slight...
Comet Chasing Group Policies The mission of the group is to promote recreational comet observing with a focus on visual observation. Let's get more people...
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Oct 1, 2005 5:04 pm
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the CometChasing group: What topics would you like to see discussed on the Comet Chasing group? o Keep...
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Oct 6, 2005 3:13 pm
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I've been thinking about this group lately. I'd like to explore ways to open up the discussion here. When I started this group I wanted it to have a very...
Greg, I think opening the discussion to all aspects of cometary observation and science will encourage excitement and interest. That will lead to more...
Greg, For the last year, I have replaced my eyepieces with a MallinCam PRO DOB Video CCD camera. Instead of visually observing with my eye to an eyepiec, I...
Greg and Jack and all, Thanks for setting up this group in the first place, Greg. While I think the emphasis should remain on visual comet chasing, there are...
Hi, ... Ah, but there are currently 14 comets visible in my telescope from my location... Now, admittedly not everyone has access to an 18-inch or larger...
Also 2004 B1, now circumpolar for us and hopefully going to come up a bit. Unfortunately we are having a very wet spring which should stop any time but so far...
Hi all, The idea to broaden the focus of this group has met with broad support. Therefore I have rewritten the group policies such that general discussion...
Hi All, After weeks of cloud I was able to get a look at C/2005 E2 tonight. Quite diffuse, no clear central condensation and about 12th mag to my eye, though I...
Comet Chasing Group Policies The primary mission of this group is to promote recreational comet observing with a emphasis on visual observation. Observing the...
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Nov 1, 2005 6:48 pm
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Hi all, I imaged comets C/2005 B1 and C/2005 E2 on Monday 31st October 2005... B1 was next to a globular cluster. 2004 B1 (LINEAR) and NGC 1841 (Globular...
The following CometChasing poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: What topics would you like to see discussed on the Comet Chasing...
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Nov 2, 2005 9:14 am
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Hi All, Beautiful night in southern West Australia tonight, one of those nights you could pick the stars out of the sky, but with a heavy dew by midnight....
my friend and i are thinking of starting a comet chasing project within our astronomical society. and by comet chasing i mean browsing the sky in order to...
rvujasinovic There are several to find that are excellent resources. They show where current comets are and have much more information. The ones I use...
thanx astropinci and KCStarguy for the links! it really means a lot to me because when i browse the net for information on this all i find is sites about the ...
Just to add to that list Bez - there is a yahoo group that has some extra links in the links section, I am sure you could ask them questions if you still need...
... hey no problem, the salutation is not in english so it is normal that you mixed it up with my signature :) velo tabur's webpage is very useful, thanx, and...
I pulled the 10" Dob out early Wednesday evening to try to catch comet C/2005 E2 (McNaught) in Capricornus. I was able to track down the little fuzzball. It...
Comet Chasing Group Policies The primary mission of this group is to promote recreational comet observing with a emphasis on visual observation. Observing the...
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Dec 1, 2005 8:39 pm
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Comet Chasing Group Policies The primary mission of this group is to promote recreational comet observing with a emphasis on visual observation. Observing the...
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Jan 1, 2006 9:16 pm
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Hi all, On the 2nd Jan 2006 (from 11:00 until 11:30pm local NZDT) - (UT 2006 January 02, 10:00 - 10:30) I imaged Comet 2004 B1 sitting about 2.5' to the west...
Hi all, well I just visually observed and imaged newly discovered comet C/2006A1 (Pojmanski). It was easy to spot with my 16" Dob from my dark site - even with...
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