Hello,

Thank you Richard for your accurate expositions of facts. :-)

I didn´t post any kind of data of the outburst to the list. I'm sorry.

Sequence of facts on October 23th.
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To be exact, my first image was taken at (FITS HEADER)

DATE-OBS = '2007-10-23T22:39:07' / Start of exposure

This 180 s. shown a 'bright star' in the place of the 17P. I thought
the comet was over the star, and continue with the exposition sequence
until the comet cross "the star".

At:

DATE-OBS = '2007-10-23T23:48:12' / Start of exposure

(23 expositions after) I was sure of the outburst, I talk with Gustavo
Muler (J47 Nazaret Obs.) and Ramón Naves and Montse Campas (213
Montcabre Obs.) (confirmation of the Outburst) and e-mail with Dr.
Mark Kidger. The "advice" was sent.

Think I was searching a near 18 mag. comet. So this images was
satured. The next morning I should go to work and go to sleep 30
mintues or so. Then I was lucky... I wake up and see the facts... The
'Star' was moving... The comet have and outburst as great as 1892
discovery (Really this outburst its greater than 1892 one, but in that
moment...).

At:

DATE-OBS = '2007-10-23T23:56:32' / Start of exposure


I was starting the sequence adjusting the time of expositions until
the sunrise on October 24th. Then a shower and go to work :-).

I Started with 90 seconds....I finish with 8 second. (the last was
saturated too).

With my eyes I see the comet magnitud: from 10.7 to 6.0 in a few
hours. What a sight!


Totals:
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Expositions: 229
Non satured: 148
Satured or comprobations: 229-148=81

The first video sequence until the meridian FLIP (Losmandy G11) can be
see at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePyQW22nr8k

The second sequence past the meridian at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXUJJO739Lg

I hope this statistics will be of the interest of the list.

Thank you very much, and forgive my english. :-)

Juan Antonio Henríquez Santana
Obs. Atlante J51
http://atlante.org.es


--- In comets-ml@yahoogroups.com, "RICHARD MILES" <rmiles.btee@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks Kearn.
>
> The SuperWASP observations have been fairly widely disseminated.
>
> The report at the webaddress is dated 2008 April 02 and relates to a
talk by
> Henry Hsieh at the RAS' National Astronomy Meeting in Belfast, UK.
>
> There are a few inaccuracies in the report: they seem to have got
the time
> out by ONE day, the initial rise commenced on October 23. It also
> misleadingly infers that at 23:39 UT it was almost three hours
before anyone
> else noticed it, namely Juan Antonio Henriquez, the initial discoverer.
> Juan sent a note out on the Observadores_cometas group, which
arrived on my
> server at 00:13 UT on Oct 24. His first images were taken just
before 00:00
> UT.
>
> Cheers,
> Richard Miles
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "belatrix" <belatrix@...>
> To: <comets-ml@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 12:35 AM
> Subject: [comets-ml] 17P/Holmes - early images of original outburst
from
> superWASP
>
>
> > dunno if this has been mentioned before here? - amazing pics! 3 hours
> > prior to first visual detection!
> >
> > http://www.spaceinfo.com.au/superwasp2.html
> >
> > cheers
> > Kearn
>