Hi all, newly discovered comet C/2009 U6 was quite close to 29P around the time of discovery. Since many people have imaged the rendezvous of 29P with 81P, the...
Dear Maik, and all, In Francois Kugel's excellent image that he took on October 27 (http://astrosurf.com/obsdauban/images/cometes_img/29P-81P-09102718-9x120s-c...
Folks, ... I haven't check any ephemerides or offsets, just watched the above image. If you refer to the fuzzy moving object trail on the upper-right part,...
Hello at all, I can confirm that the trail on the upper-right is CLEARLY C/2009 U5 I have seen this trail on the images, but I'm worked on photometry of 29P...
Francois, ... my condolences on a missed comet discovery and congratulations on a genuine prediscovery. ;) Yes, there are many examples of discoveries of new...
Congrats to whoever found this comet! Sometimes you can get lucky!!! Unfortunately bad weather has thwarted my attempts to try to locate 81P....... Cheers! ...
After adding/updating C/2009 U6 for TheSky6, and backtracking over the past week, C/2009 U6 was also very close to 81P around October 20, 2009. I updated...
Me too! I saw that and just figured that something that obvious was either a galaxy or a "something" everybody already knew about. Too many false alarms for...
Hello everybody! ... Saw it yesterday too, noticed the trailed diffuse tail, but got diverted by a possible variable star in the bottom left of the image......
Í´ve shooted as well yesterday and the day before, my FOV is not so big... unfortunately, did not get it ! best regards, gustavo. ... From: Alan Hale To:...
Hello all, I can't believe this! I showed this spectacular rendezvous photo to my wife Angela, who then pointed out the third comet. I dismissed it, without...
Hi all, If it turns out that someone spots a comet in someone else's images then who is the discovery credited to if the MPC is alerted??? Interesting! Cheers!...
Chris, If I'm not mistaken, credit goes to whoever discovers it. David Levy has found comets on images taken by observatories and he was credited with the...
Dear Ed, ... About David's discoveries: David was a part of Gene and Carolyn Shoemaker's team for several years during the late 1980s and early 1990s, and...
Hi Chris, Ed and all, ... The photographs on which David discovered comets were not public. (at least at the moment of his discovery) The IAU Comet-Naming...
Akimasa Nakamura
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Oct 30, 2009 12:57 pm
Akimasa, I wasn't aware that those discoveries were not credited to him. Thanks to both you and Alan. My best wishes, Ed Murray [Non-text portions of this...
Really this has always seemed a poor practice from the get-go. Having 200+ comets with the same 'proper' name is very confusing. Kevin Conod kdconod@... ...
Kevin, I'm not sure what you are saying here but you might feel somewhat differently when you discover something yourself:) [Non-text portions of this message...
I'm saying it's confusing to have 200+ comets named LINEAR. How many has SOHO discovered now? It must be more than a 1,000 by now. If I discovered 1,000 comets...
Kevin, Oh yes I forgot ..and there are a few others too:) Please forgive me..they escaped my memory.. Yes I am all for giving credit to folks who actually...
Thanks for your insight guys! It's a shame that there's so much conjecture regarding naming of comets discovered through media other than the discoverers own. ...
Hi all. The morning Francois Kugel posted the photo of 81P/29P, I also saw the star trail to the right of 29P and dismissed it as an asteroid with a...
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