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10497 francois kugel
fkspect Send Email
Sep 1, 2006
9:05 pm
Hello all, On an image taken this 1st September, the comet seems to show a short tail out of PA 265 from approximately 24" ...
10498 Luca Buzzi
buzzi_luca Send Email
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...
10499 francois kugel
fkspect Send Email
Sep 3, 2006
9:57 pm
Hello Luca, Many thanks for your confirmation Regards, François...
10500 Dennis Persyk
dennis_persyk Send Email
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...
10501 Peter Birtwhistle
pbirtwhistle Send Email
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...
10502 gvnn64@...
gvnn64 Send Email
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...
10503 Robert McNaught
rmn@... Send Email
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...
10504 Maik Meyer
maiki666 Send Email
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....
10505 Robert McNaught
rmn@... Send Email
Sep 5, 2006
10:23 am
33 E12 observations Aug 07-Sep 05 e=1.0 RMS=0.227 arcseconds e=0.99996 RMS=0.226 Nominal solution (P=300,000 yrs) e=0.9995 RMS=0.276...
10506 amar10sharmaa Send Email Sep 6, 2006
7:40 am
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...
10507 Dave Herald
dave_herald Send Email
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...
10508 Rodney Austin
rodcomet Send Email
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]...
10509 "Sebastian F. H€...
sfhoenig Send Email
Sep 6, 2006
8:24 am
... Hmm, did I miss the irony? Depends on how you define "spectacular&quot;, but my copy of Cometography Vol. 1 tells me something different (as 2 did my ...
10510 John Sachs
jsachss Send Email
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...
10511 Dave Herald
dave_herald Send Email
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...
10512 P. Clay Sherrod
drclay2002 Send Email
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...
10513 gvnn64@...
gvnn64 Send Email
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...
10514 cnj999 Send Email 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...
10515 Gary Kronk
gary_kronk Send Email
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...
10516 cnj999 Send Email 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...
10517 David Seargent
seargent@... Send Email
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:...
10518 Rodney Austin
rodcomet Send Email
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,...
10519 belatrix
kearn_jones Send Email
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...
10520 Mike Holloway
tricks46 Send Email
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...
10521 Mike Begbie
mjbcomets Send Email
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...
10522 David Seargent
seargent@... Send Email
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...
10523 Rodney Austin
rodcomet Send Email
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&#39; seems to trigger something; I did the...
10524 Terry Lovejoy
terryjlovejoy Send Email
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...
10525 Rodney Austin
rodcomet Send Email
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...
10526 "Sebastian F. H€...
sfhoenig Send Email
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...
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