Hi All, Just thought I'd drop you a note about an observation I've just made of Comet 2001 Q4 NEAT. At 9.00hrs UT on 2 May 2004, the NEAT is easily visible to...
Thanks, Les, for your report. This comet should become visible to those of us on the other side of the globe by next weekend. Reading your report has gotten...
Hi all! I know this list mainly consentrates on Deep Sky objects, but I have this old drawing of some craters which I'd like to identify. I've tried Virtual...
Mikkel, With what little information you have given, my guess would be either Gauss or Endymion. Your comment about the crater being towards the "very end of...
Mikkel, The only area that looks right is the southeastern limb of a 4 day old moon. The shadowing in the craters is what I'm using to help identify the area. ...
... old ... I think the drawing is of the crater Hayn, 64.7N, 85.2E. This shows well on plate A3 of The Consolidated Lunar Atlas. -Jay- '70s Boston Photos ...
Yesterday evening (4May) I and a couple other local amateurs observed C/2001 Q4 NEAT from my backyard, AKA "Stooge's Field" - Douglasville, GA. The comet was...
Jay, John and Dennis! Thank you very much for your suggestions. The regretful thing about all this is that I didn't note anything on the drawing for some...
Mikkel, Great moon drawing! The fact that you did use a newtonian so the "image" is just rotated 180 degrees and the edge of the craters that you shadowed tell...
AVOID Westfall's lunar atlas. The images are terrible, inexcusably so. The text is good, though, so there's a lot of geology to learn. But the book is pretty...
Mikkel, Send me your lat & long, and I will play around with VMA some more and see if I can come up with any more "guesses"! Also what is your time zone? I...
Interesting question! I've simulated the view with LunarCal v2 and posted a comparison at: http://www3.telus.net/public/aling/lunarcal/steine.html I've assumed...
Alister
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May 5, 2004 9:06 pm
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Greetings: Rukl's Atlas is being revised and will be published by Sky Publishing Corp, probably in the fall. In the meantime, I would recommend Charles Wood's...
A large set of coordinates for planetary nebulae published last year by Kerber et al., has been made available in the Strasbourg system. The coordinates are...
Brian Skiff
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May 6, 2004 8:04 pm
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Hi, Brian. ... I have been working with the Kerber et al. catalogue in SkyGX for about three weeks now. For the most part, the positions are indeed reasonably...
Good to hear that you guys were responsible for the fixes. \Brian...
Brian Skiff
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May 6, 2004 9:25 pm
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... From: "Fred Kiesche" <godel2escher2bach@...> ... Really? They've been saying that for three or four years now, it seems. Peace and clear skies, --...
Howdy all; I observed Comet NEAT from a location about 50 miles from metropolitan Phoenix (Flatiron site) on Thursday evening. The sky was clear, I rated the...
... Now you can appreciate what we've been enjoying here for the last few weeks :-) From my latitude (~35d S) tonight, this comet is now high in the western...
Fraser Farrell
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May 7, 2004 10:48 am
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... The more fun thing to do would be to try and get hold of the upcoming Uppsala-Edinburgh-Strasbourg catalogue :-) Owen...
At the risk of going a tad off-topic by getting geographically specific, does anyone on this list live in, or has anyone observed with someone from, the island...
STARLOG May 6, 2004 The Fingerprint of God Observer: Tom Campbell Location: Iola, Kansas (Long: 95°24'W Lat: 37°55'N) Equipment: Simmons 10x50WA Time: 9:00pm...
Hi all, ... It's working title is now the Macquarie / AAO/ Strasbourg/ H-alpha (MASH) catalogue and we're working on it!! I have the latest version on my...
Continuing the topic of this particular PNe catalogue, Francois Ochsenbein notes that the DEC errors present in 10 of the entries in Table 1 have now been...
Hi All, Just got inside after another long look at 2001 Q4 NEAT. At 7.10pm local time or 9.10UT on 8 May, the comet passed a mere 2 arc mins from Alpha...
Folks interested in viewing southern double stars and in finding possible small star-groups may find this list of interest. I noticed while building this list...
Brian Skiff
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May 9, 2004 9:16 pm
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Howdy all; On Saturday evening two of my observing buddies for many years, AJ Crayon and David Fredericksen and I made our way to a site about 60 miles north...
The latest collection of Galactic center PNe has been published by Jacody & Van de Steene in the on-line A&A (which I think everyone can look at): ...
Brian Skiff
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May 10, 2004 7:27 pm
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When using the old-style designations Sigma and Omicron Sigma for Struve and Otto Struve double stars, is there any convention that says whether or not you...
