Dear all, Visual estimates for this comet were unexpectedly bright in 1985. Comet hunter Bill Bradfield accidentally "discovered" it (using a 6-inch refractor...
David Seargent
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Jun 23, 2008 12:49 am
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... Dear David, Yes, this comet far from perihelion must behave as an asteroid. I don't know what was the limiting magnitude in October 2007 observation, but...
Hi all, I have updated my analysis of currently observable comets, especially interesting of comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini). You can find the analysis at...
Dear colleagues: I have completed work on the *Secular Light Curve of Comets, V2008*, containing the secular light curves of 27 comets. You may download this...
Dear Ignacio , Great work of comets , congratulations ... Best Regards , J.P.Navarro Pina Observatorio Astronomico "Vega del Thader" MPC-J70 , El Palmar ,...
To all, try the following link for his recent paper on 2P/Encke: http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.2161 To Ignacio Ferrin, Thanks for sharing your work I have been...
Dear Colleagues: There may have been an unwanted space in the URL and some people may have been having difficulties retrieving the document. Try this one: ...
This is good news for amateur astronomers that the word about light pollution is finally getting attention at the Federal level. It would be helpful to the...
Hi all, I want to remark that J. J. Gonzales has observed C/2007 N3 at 10.6 mag and C/2008 J3 at 10.3 mag. Especially C/2007 N3 is brighter than predicted and...
The Computer translation! Hello, friends! I to manage to observe the comet 2006 OF2 (Broughton) in night with 28 for June 29! For observations used 80 mm APO...
Sergey Shurpakov
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Jun 29, 2008 6:58 pm
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I am wondering if C/2007 N3 is switching on. On June 14, I saw it under very good rural skies from Cowra (New South Wales) and made it 12.7 in a 25-cm....
David Seargent
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Jun 30, 2008 5:13 am
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Dear colleagues, Two bright comets will pass near by Messier objects in July. http://www.aerith.net/comet/rendezvous/current.html 2008 July 2 20h UT 0.124...
Dear Group, I have captured 9 comets last night (on 1/2 Jul 2008) from Szeged Observatory, Hungary. Instruments: 40cm Newtonian+CCD. Targets was: C/2005 L3 -...
Great work Gabor My limited magnitude depending on conditions is around 18 and was unable to pic up 2008L2 or 2007W3, I would also put a DC value on 6P at 7...
Thanks James, From the University's observatory in Szeged we usually can reach 18 mag as you, but on 1st Jul was very clear night without moon. Try L2, it is...
Hi at all, at this address I have inserted an image of comet 67P http://comete.uai.it/67p/67P_080703.jpg photography was done remotely(AU) through the system ...
Hi all , Update the visual light curve of comet C/2007 W1 Boattini , http://webs.ono.com/jpab The radio nucleus estimated the relationship Delsemme ( 1987 ) r...
... mag Hello Maik and all, thanks to Gustavo, you can find an updated analysis of this comet in or blog: http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/ A pretty unusual...
This morning, shooting the boattini, I find the same shape of butterfly like before going to round the sun. Processed by Giovanni Sostero ( many thanks !) one...
I barely got to see this comet in twilight (10:45UT) July 4th...it looked like a large round (almost spherical) haze visually, with only a modest condensation....
Interesting. A month ago I posted an image taken on June 6 at:http://tinyurl.com/5rhx9a That image shows the same general shape of the come - except the...
Hello, The return of W1 after perihelion was a great unknown, and it was necessary to observe. Well done Gustavo and Giovanni ... Greetings, Juan A.Henríquez ...