Congrats to whoever found this comet! Sometimes you can get lucky!!! Unfortunately bad weather has thwarted my attempts to try to locate 81P....... Cheers! ...
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...
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...
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
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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...
Dear list, sorry for this off-topic, but on the web I've found almost nothing and surely some of you can help me on this. We would like to change our CCD...
Luca, As far as I know, antiblooming works against linearity and is likely to affect the photometry of saturated targets, I don't think it may have any impact...
I agree with Juan, a wise use of the "Astrometrica" settings, regards the bright end of the magnitudes, should mitigate significantly the prpblem. Cheers, ...
Hi Giovanni, yes, of course I will set the proper settings in Astrometrica, to avoid to take stars that are under/above a certain limit. But such a CCD can be...
Hello Luca. ... IMHO it's better to constrain the dynamic range below 70%, or at least this was my esperience with a Starlight Xpress CCD I used for some time...
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K09/K09V10.html Only the first two nights are available via MPCOBS. I can therefore not check if the orbit is okay or if it is...
... This appears to be a routine MBA. There are only two nights of observation and the one-opposition orbit on MPEC V10 has been removed. The MB Vaisala...
Dear Rob Matson, ... Recent M.P.E.C. 2009-V04 announced that the number 228P was assigned to P/2001 YX127 = P/2009 U2 (LINEAR). A permanent number was not ...
Dear colleagues, * Two cometary-asteroids (or asteroidal comets) will be close in mid November. 2009 Nov. 15 19h UT 0.268 deg ( 16.1 arcmin) 107P/(4015)...
Dear colleagues, I heard that P/2009 U4 (McNaught) was discovered in the course of follow-up observations of C/2009 R1. P/2009 U4 had been bright before...
Hi Seiichi, ... They were reported right away. Brian Marsden and I exchanged a number of e-mails on the linkage, and ultimately came to the conclusion that the...
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