Hello all, On an image taken this 1st September, the comet seems to show a short tail out of PA 265 from approximately 24" ...
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Luca Buzzi
buzzi_luca
Sep 2, 2006 4:33 pm
Hi Francois, the tail you imaged is real. In my images of 2006, Aug. 14, there is a faint extension of the coma about 15" in PA 260°. You can see an image...
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francois kugel
fkspect
Sep 3, 2006 9:57 pm
Hello Luca, Many thanks for your confirmation Regards, François...
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Dennis Persyk
dennis_persyk
Sep 3, 2006 11:25 pm
I keep thinking the name is Sliding Spring, but the observatory in Australia is in fact Siding Spring. I was unable to detect any hint of a tail in my 1 Sep...
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Peter Birtwhistle
pbirtwhistle
Sep 4, 2006 2:54 am
... Dennis, From exposures taken tonight I can't see the faint tail that was extending to the SW a few weeks ago, but I can see an 11" long extension to the...
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gvnn64@...
gvnn64
Sep 4, 2006 8:16 am
... Hi Dennis, in the image obtained from the Remanzacco Observatory on 2006, August 31.81 (i.e. almost 8 hours before your shot) the faint tail toward...
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Robert McNaught
rmn@...
Sep 5, 2006 6:05 am
Just a note regarding the discovery of this comet. The note my Maik on his web page http://www.comethunter.de/ differs from IAUC 8744 and changes the...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Sep 5, 2006 8:48 am
Hi Rob, ... thanks for the info on the discovery circumstances. I'll fix the wording asap. Cheers, Maik -- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way....
Hello All, Not sure if many of you know about it or has it been already discussed here previously. But after doing some searching on the topic I got the...
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Dave Herald
dave_herald
Sep 6, 2006 8:00 am
What a pity that comet Halley has _never_ been a spectacular naked eye comet. Its fame comes from the history of the first prediction of a returning comet, not...
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Rodney Austin
rodcomet
Sep 6, 2006 8:16 am
Still it would be nice to be around time after next, when comes real close. Cheers Rod Austin [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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"Sebastian F. H€...
sfhoenig
Sep 6, 2006 8:24 am
... Hmm, did I miss the irony? Depends on how you define "spectacular", but my copy of Cometography Vol. 1 tells me something different (as 2 did my ...
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John Sachs
jsachss
Sep 6, 2006 12:37 pm
My Grandmother saw Halley's comet in 1910 and it was a vivid memory for her of it's great tail as seen from rural Pennsylvania. I tried to show the comet to my...
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Dave Herald
dave_herald
Sep 6, 2006 1:51 pm
If you go back to the 1910 contemporaneous accounts, there was widespread public disappointment in the comet. The media hyped it up, and the reality did not...
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P. Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Sep 6, 2006 2:07 pm
According to many accounts, people were actually believing that it was Halley's Comet they were seeing when in fact - as Dave correctly points out - they were...
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gvnn64@...
gvnn64
Sep 6, 2006 2:47 pm
... Hi Dave, I think that the trick is in the word *never*. Quoting from Gary Kronk's webpage about 1P/Halley: http://tinyurl.com/lkmj9 -"The comet and Earth...
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cnj999
Sep 6, 2006 3:17 pm
... naked eye comet. ... returning comet, ... but my copy ... Like Sebastian, I suspect some of our posters need to re-read the scientific accounts of various...
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Gary Kronk
gary_kronk
Sep 6, 2006 3:38 pm
Granted the Great January Comet was mistaken for comet Halley during January 1910 (even a railworker sent a telegram to a newspaper in Johannesburg on January...
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cnj999
Sep 6, 2006 7:42 pm
... Although now getting off track just a bit, a further interesting point regarding Napolean, Charles Messier and the association of comets with Napolean's...
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David Seargent
seargent@...
Sep 7, 2006 1:27 am
... From: "Dave Herald" <drherald@...> To: <comets-ml@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:43 PM Subject: Re: [comets-ml] Re:...
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Rodney Austin
rodcomet
Sep 7, 2006 3:38 am
I have to agree with David on this one. Several elderly folk I spoke to some years back had clearly seen Halley. Most of these people were amateur astronomers,...
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belatrix
kearn_jones
Sep 7, 2006 5:47 am
I have amateur astronomer and ATM friend who's life long interest in astronomy was also partly inspired by his grandmothers glowing accounts of Halley's...
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Mike Holloway
tricks46
Sep 7, 2006 8:55 pm
My grandmother told me of Halley before it came back. She spoke of this as one of the few occurences which she remebered as a young girl. I think this was...
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Mike Begbie
mjbcomets
Sep 8, 2006 3:45 pm
Comets Mailing ListHi Mike How very strange! My first photo. of a comet was of Halley in early March 1986! I was using 50 ASA slide film, and it was a 30...
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David Seargent
seargent@...
Sep 10, 2006 3:41 am
... From: "Rodney Austin" <rodcomet@...> To: <comets-ml@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 1:35 PM ... Rod & all, Do you know which...
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Rodney Austin
rodcomet
Sep 11, 2006 10:46 am
Hi David, Oh dear! The name Mellish certainly rings a bell , but I don't think it was that one. The name 'Schaumasse' seems to trigger something; I did the...
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Terry Lovejoy
terryjlovejoy
Sep 11, 2006 12:07 pm
Rod, Another possibility is that this could be Comet Delavan (1913f in the old system) which would have been a fairly bright object (mag 2-3) low in the North...
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Rodney Austin
rodcomet
Sep 11, 2006 12:25 pm
Hi Terry, That certainly would be a very interesting possibility. Mum would have been just on a year old though. It is her birthday on Thursday, apart from the...
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"Sebastian F. H€...
sfhoenig
Sep 12, 2006 2:11 pm
Hello all, as most of you may have noted, C/2006 R1 (Siding Springs) is one of the most peculiar comets when dealing with orbits. With the first measurements...
