Has there been anything new on it since Giovanni and Marco published
their thoughts...?
I'm just checking as I have a couple of presentations on 2006 P1 to do...
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gvnn64@...
gvnn64
Feb 2, 2007 11:53 pm
... Hi Rob, Marco is working hard on this topic, and we are waiting for some news from him; however it seems that it's a complex matter, and he is still...
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JS & EJ Gifford
jsg388
Feb 3, 2007 12:03 am
New observations are not easy at the moment with the Full Moon. Monday night will give us the first small moonless window, about 15 minutes. The broader fan is...
11776
ligustri rolando
astroligu2002
Feb 3, 2007 8:13 am
Hi at all, I have update the italian web site of comet (http://comete.uai.it/) with new images of the comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught) with interesting elaborations....
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amar10sharmaa
Feb 3, 2007 9:13 am
Hello All, I was just going through 2 of BAA's online files, one 'A Comet's Tale' latest January 2007 issue (tail26.pdf) and the other 'Comet Prospects for...
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gvnn64@...
gvnn64
Feb 3, 2007 9:33 am
... Hello Amar, as far as I know, there is a C/2003 R5 (SOHO) and a C/2002 O4 (Hoening), but no P/Hoenig (2003 R5). Cheers, Giovanni ... Passa a Infostrada....
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Carey Johnson
quarkcsj
Feb 3, 2007 10:30 am
I was updating the calendar at the new Yahoo Group I just created for our club http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/HawaiianAstronomicalSociety/ The calendar is...
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Rodney Austin
rodcomet
Feb 3, 2007 10:38 am
Hi All, We finally got another rare clear night in New Plymouth. I got a naked eye view of the comet at 10:45pm NZDT ( 09:45 UT, 3 Feb) when it became just...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Feb 3, 2007 10:44 am
Hi all, ... Sebastian (Hoenig) linked C/1999 R5 and C/2003 R5 (both SOHO) - see "Identification of a new short-period comet near the sun" in Astronomy and ...
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ligustri rolando
astroligu2002
Feb 3, 2007 12:35 pm
At this address you can see two images of the comet in object taked with RC 12.5" of the RAS observatory in AU. http://comete.uai.it/comete/C2006P1_070201.jpg ...
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gvnn64@...
gvnn64
Feb 3, 2007 12:50 pm
... Hi Rolando, veri nice shots, indeed! I suspect that the fancy disk-like feature you commented, is the real anti-tail we talk about last week, seen under a...
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gvnn64@...
gvnn64
Feb 3, 2007 12:52 pm
... Hello Maik, thanks for the info. ... Oh, yes: it will be a well deserved nomenclature. Cheers, Giovanni ... Passa a Infostrada. ADSL e Telefono senza...
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Luca Buzzi
buzzi_luca
Feb 3, 2007 6:24 pm
Hi all, recently (Jan, 27.75) I've tried to image this comet, but I've found nothing down to mag. 20 R. Its predicted mag. should be around 19.5. Has anyone...
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Don Pearce
dpearce2d
Feb 3, 2007 8:16 pm
Rob, This might help. I have attached 2 articles I wrote about McNaught. The first was completed on Jan. 17th, just before the development of the spectacular...
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Robert McNaught
rmn@...
Feb 4, 2007 1:31 am
Whetever is being called an anti-tail, has surely been present for most of the last fortnight if I am seeing the same thing? The geometry has changed a bit,...
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Robert McNaught
rmn@...
Feb 4, 2007 1:43 am
... Hi, This structure has been visible since perihelion as far as I'm aware, becoming more exagerated with time. It sweeps into the western boundary of the...
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David Seargent
seargent@...
Feb 4, 2007 4:06 am
... From: gvnn64@... To: comets-ml Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 8:33 PM Subject: Re:[comets-ml] BAA's journals (correction?) ... Hello Amar, as far...
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algwat
Feb 4, 2007 7:21 am
Gidday All, I have added to the Photos area a couple of images I had processed from available STEREO images on Jan 15th, See STEREO images album. The color...
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ligustri rolando
astroligu2002
Feb 4, 2007 12:35 pm
Hi at all, at this address http://comete.uai.it/comete/C2006P1_070204.jpg you can find a new image of the comet done this morning in remote with the RAS...
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gvnn64@...
gvnn64
Feb 4, 2007 1:20 pm
Hi Rolando, Rob and all, I think that we should imagine this "disk" as a 3D structure, as it actually is. According to Luigi Pansecchi's & Marco Fulle's...
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Toni Scarmato
toniscarmato...
Feb 4, 2007 8:21 pm
Hi to all. At the folloving address http://digilander.libero.it/infosis/homepage/astronomia/c2006p1.htm I Have posted two new images and some new of that...
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Carey Johnson
quarkcsj
Feb 5, 2007 3:47 am
Didn't someone here think they imaged this? Carey The flotsam created by China's anti-satellite test last month is on the radar screens of space debris...
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Alan Hale
ahale15
Feb 5, 2007 4:42 am
Hi everyone, ... I visually observed it this evening (Feb 5.09 UT), m1 = 13.3, coma 0'.8; distinct and fairly small "condensation," surrounded by more diffuse...
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Robert McNaught
rmn@...
Feb 5, 2007 1:16 pm
The comet has indeed lost much of it's lustre, but the fully dark period before moonrise this evening did allow a good naked-eye view of the tail. The comet...
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JS & EJ Gifford
jsg388
Feb 5, 2007 2:03 pm
Hi All, The appearance of the tail naked eye has changed from a week ago, and is now quite faint. Where previously the southern edge of the tail had been very...
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ligustri rolando
astroligu2002
Feb 5, 2007 5:55 pm
... Hi Mr.McNaught, have seen the photos and I have to say that they are all very beautiful ones! for me, the best are those with the domes of the telescopes!...
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amar10sharmaa
Feb 5, 2007 6:00 pm
OK the naming issue is resolved now. SOHO comet is now named after Hoenig. But still my other query is unanswered; is 0.05 AU not too small for a periodic...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Feb 5, 2007 6:21 pm
Hi Amar, ... the Kracht and Marsden group comets, which are presumed and linked to be of short period have even smaller perihelion distances: ...
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grunwalder2002
Feb 5, 2007 9:17 pm
... No, the SOHO comet in question is not now named for Hoenig. Gareth Williams, Minor Planet Center (and CSBN)...
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Giannantonio Milani
g_milani2001
Feb 6, 2007 4:24 pm
Dear friends, according to the last reports on C/2006 P1 we had the impression it was recently characterized by a fast fading in brightness. But a preliminary...
