... OOPS!! its www.aao.gov.au To explain this address. The AAO is as most informed persons know is a joint UK- Australian operation. Its legal position in ...
A good Web page from 1999 about the use of 14" Tech Pan films and an H-alpha filter is at: http://www.aao.gov.au/local/www/qap/halpha_pages.html ... and...
So the films are 14-inch square, but because of the limitation of the filter, the field is a 12-inch (30cm) circle. Still a pretty big chunk of sky in a...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Aug 1, 2002 7:16 pm
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Well folks- We done been spammed again... DO NOT CHECK IT OUT. It is a *P*O*R*N* site... Now I'll probably get all kinds of c*&p email since I checked it...
At 10:42 PM 8/1/2002 -0000, you wrote: The management apologizes for this spam, which snuck through our anti-spam barriers. We recommend against having a look...
A new comet with an interesting set of discovery circumstances was announced to day on IAU Circular 7944: 1.72946 3 56 52.38 -13 15 29.2 13.2...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Aug 2, 2002 1:37 am
8462
...incomplete cut-n-paste first time: A new comet with an interesting set of discovery circumstances was announced to day on IAU Circular 7944: COMET 2002 O6 ...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Aug 2, 2002 1:41 am
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The few examples of these objects are certainly spectacular with an OIII or UHC filter -- N6888 (Crescent Nebula), N2359 (Thor's Helmet), N3199 and N6164/65....
In case anyone on the list thinks it's clear all the time in Arizona, here's a corrective. Though we usually tend to write off at least half of July, we...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Aug 2, 2002 4:53 am
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Hi Steve, WRN are among my favourite targets. ... or ... and ... I have seen and drawn 6 WRN so far, among them Sharpless 308 at 6 54.2, -23 57 in CMa, a...
Ronald Stoyan
stoyan@...
Aug 2, 2002 7:01 pm
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Steve Gottlieb asked for more observable Wolf-Rayet shells. In the April, 2001 issue of UNIVERSE, the journal of the Astronomical Siciety of New South Wales,...
While looking up something else at the Edinburgh plate-scan site (http://www-wfau.roe.ac.uk/sss/obj.html), I noticed that they are providing images from the UK...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Aug 2, 2002 8:16 pm
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Looking for various lists of asteroids and what not at the Minor Planet Center (as well as a recent Astronomy Picture of the Day), I noticed an interesting...
Hmmm...just a guess: the longitudes of perihelia for ordinary main-belt asteroids are strongly aligned with that of Jupiter, something like heliocentric...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Aug 3, 2002 12:18 am
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noticed this the other day ... no surprise really, but I have not seen mention anywhere else. http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/PeriodicCodes.html LeRoy...
Subject: Gomez's Hamburger The Hubble Heritage Team (Zolt Levay specifically) have released the brand new image of Gomez's Hamburger this morning Aug 1, and...
Barbara, Thanks for letting us know about the real neat Hubble image of Gomez's Hamburger. I went into the Aladin previewer off SIMBAD and was able to print...
Kent Wallace
kwwallace@...
Aug 3, 2002 7:08 pm
8476
IAU Circular 7948 and MPEC 2002-P10 show a first preliminary assumed parabolic orbit for the new comet: T = 2002 Sept. 9.418 TT Peri. = 78.703 Node...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Aug 3, 2002 11:08 pm
8477
I have uploaded an image of this comet to my web space, taken by Stefan Lilge around 5:45 UT on the 3rd of August from the middle of Berlin with an 8" LX200 at...
... Good thoughts and ideas, but Jupiter does not seem to be the culprit. I ran the Inner system animation, both the Hi-res, and lower res versions. The...
... The idea was _not_ the relation ship with where Jupiter was at any moment w.r.t. Earth, but instead the location of Jupiter's perihelion. The main-belt...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Aug 4, 2002 10:50 pm
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On Sun, 4 Aug 2002 15:50:16 -0700 (MST) Brian Skiff <brian.skiff@...> ... Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that this was what you suggested, but the...
OK. COuld be just a statistical fluke after all. \Brian...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Aug 4, 2002 11:11 pm
8482
I am developing a talk for an astronomy meeting on deep sky-related projects by amateurs. I am interested in collecting information on what projects YOU are...
deepskyspy1@...
Aug 5, 2002 5:28 am
8483
The National Deep Sky Observers Society has published issue #6 of "The Deep Sky." This issue features an interview with Dr. H. C. Arp with several feature...
deepskyspy1@...
Aug 5, 2002 5:28 am
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Well, PK 64+5.1 was at the bottom of my priority list until someone on SAA said that it isn't a PN. So I did do some search, both here and the net and many...
Ron; Here is an old observation: BD +30 3639 is Campbell's Hydrogen Star. It was discovered by W.W. Campbell at Lick Obs. with a spectroscope on the 36"...
