2006 VV2 from Lake Arrowhead CA., I was able to locate and observe asteroid 2006 VV2 this last evening. (Friday 3/30) After receiving a heads-up on this event...
From IAU Circular 8826: L. [Lance] A. M. Benner [and several others from various institutions] ...report that Goldstone (8560 MHz, 3.5 cm) and Arecibo (2380...
Brian Skiff
bas@...
Apr 6, 2007 4:14 am
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Thanks, Brian. I didn't know why, I only knew immediately upon viewing it that something looked "different" about it. The image mimicked slightly bad seeing,...
Hi all Perhaps two links that can be useful for people interested in open clusters photometric studies, methods and targets. First link from CDS AstroWeb...
Hi Steve, can you drop me your email off list please? I'd like to bounce an idea off you. Thanks, Alister. [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Hi all, the 2007 versions of my REVISED NGC/IC and my HISTORIC NGC are now online at my homepage www.klima-luft.de/steinicke Note that, due to an unresolved...
Wolfgang, Does this mean the information posted at the NGCIC.org site is wrong, or that you disagree with some of the findings, or that you couldn't obtain a...
If I'm not mistaken (and I may be, so hopefully Bob, Harold or Wolfgang will correct me), the stipulation from Wolfgang is that Bob Erdmann's "The Historically...
I became inspired by recent photographs of the double-quasar in Ursa Major taken by Swedish astrophotographers and by the "deep-sky wonders" column in...
My original 'amastro' post about finding 3C 273 with my Pronto is from April 2005, and is still available: ...
Brian Skiff
bas@...
Apr 15, 2007 7:25 pm
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Thanks, Brian. I know there is the star of V=13.5 one arc-minute W of 3C273 but since the star is a magnitude fainter than the quasar, I'm confident with the...
Hi Kent, Looking at my SECGPN notes, I see that Eric Honeycutt observed Abell 28 using a 22" f/4.1 reflector on 04/29/00. Clear skies! Kent Wallace ... From:...
Kent Wallace
kwwallace@...
Apr 16, 2007 2:53 pm
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Hi, last weekend was spent in the Austrian Alps at Tiefenbachferner site at 2800m elevation. Limiting magnitude was 7.3 mag, gegenschein easy, zodiacal band...
Hi Ronald. Congratulations to the observation! I have seen M81 naked eye five times between 1997 and 2000. This was done from my regular observing site in...
I managed to spot the Moon about 7:25p local = 2:25 UT this evening with 6x30mm binoculars from Anderson Mesa. Thus about 14h49m age. Delicate much-broken...
Brian Skiff
bas@...
Apr 18, 2007 2:39 am
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That's a good achievement. The best I have managed to is an observation of a 19h37m (before New moon) naked eye crescent and 19h16m with 7x50 binoculars....
Brian, Nice observation. Three of us from Houston drove 230 miles west to get to clear "dry" skies to attempt the young moon also. We were hoping to get west...
Brian, I forgot to ask if you observed the thin moon Monday morning? The next chance for a close opposing crescent is June 14/15 - about 38.6 hours for me from...
Nice obs, Brian, and nice try, Ken. I pursued this particular wild goose myself last night, driving far north of Edmonton to get beyond the cloud deck, but it...
The stories of long drives that I have been reading make me feel almost guilty about my effortless sighting of the young crescent moon. I drove two miles from...
Tom, Thanks for sharing your images. You should feel guilty! Just kidding. I do a large number of my morning moons from about 8ft out the bedroom sliding glass...
Hi Brian, I read with great interest the minutes of your young crescent moon sighting from yesterday. According to an article at Skytonight.com "Seeking Thin...
Howdy; While Tom and Jenn Polakis stayed in Phoenix, I traveled to a site about 75 miles west of the big city. I did not take any photos, but the thin Moon ...
Tom's/Jenn's and my sightings were only a few of several that were made in Arizona yesterday evening. Tom's shots capture my binocular view 'just right'. No...
Brian Skiff
bas@...
Apr 18, 2007 8:23 pm
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... I would claim only "maybe", though I am sure that if it had been really transparent it would have been straightforward. The typical wind-blown spring dust...
Brian Skiff
bas@...
Apr 18, 2007 8:33 pm
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I recalled another relatively 'old' Moon sighting of mine from the late 70s. Thanks to our wonderful Lowell library, it was easy to look up the relevant 'Sky...
Brian Skiff
bas@...
Apr 18, 2007 9:27 pm
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Well, I was all alone at the site to the west of Phoenix and so I have no witnesses. Also, I thought that the earliest naked eye sightings were an hour or so...
Hi Brian, You still did mighty good, even with all that wind-blown dust out to the west. That Steve Coe spotted his crescent moon with the naked eye only 8...
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