Near Earth Asteroid at 0.023 AU from Earth. Take a ride on a 2 km wide asteroid high above the Moonlit cirrus clouds as it passes less than 9 times the...
Nice Carey! I did the same thing last night. http://www.mackjulian.com/astro/2006vv2.avi Mine is a dirty avi made with MaximDL, 11meg, from a series of 10 sec ...
CCD really seemed to be the way to go because of the full Moon. The DSLR's pick up the glow from the Moon a lot easier. Plus I had cirrus clouds that were...
... It is just more or less as expected. I would say 4-5 mag and remember this time it is not going to be as bright as last time (2002) when it reached to...
Hello All, I would like to ask what's happened to the latest SOHO image in the following link? Something is gone wrong with it, it appears as only half visible...
Dear colleagues, Comet C/2006 P1 ( McNaught ) is now passing near by Small Magellanic Cloud. The comet still has a broad fan tail of several degrees. 2007 Apr....
Pity about the moon.... Dave Herald Canberra, Australia ... From: "Seiichi Yoshida" <comet@...> To: <comets-ml@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, April...
Dear list, I hope to have the chance to catch C/2007 E1 (Garradd) under dark skies over the Easter weekend. The comet will then be closest to Earth 1.5 months...
... skies over the ... <snip> ... the evening ... Hi Maik, I would like to give it a try too, with my 30x125 binoculars; do you think that under dark mountain...
... still to be ... Hello Maik! I observed visually this comet on March, 25 in 30-cm telescope. The estimation of brightness was 14.1m, I think now this comet...
Giovanni, ... in addition to Vitali's information I can add that a recent image byy Michael Jaeger show indeed a large coma, but he thinks the comet is closer...
Dear Maik and all, My sky conditions weren't very good this evening -- lots of patchy cirrus clouds -- but the comet was still easily visible in the 41 cm...
Hi everyone, I finally had clear, dark skies tonight and was able to spot E1 Garrad. My observation follows: Time: April 5, 2:30 UT Scope: 37cm reflector, 64x ...
Gidday Mr Hale. 2P/Encke is also visible in the SECCHI/STEREO H1a imager. The images for Aril 5 are not yet released. It would be very interesting to compare...
Alan, Please put some links. Searching will be slight difficult for slow-internet access users :) Thanks! Best regards, Maciej [Non-text portions of this...
Hi Alan, and all, ... this sounds really good. In fact I have received a new observation by Michael Jaeger under moonless skies and he now also estimates the...
... Seen it: it's beautiful! If I remember well, in the last few passages, it didn't developed a nice tail like this. Cheers, Giovanni ... Leggi GRATIS le tue...
... Stereo Images directory http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/data/ins_data/secchi/L0/a/img/hi_1/ ... I couldn't see any comet in the early April 2 images,...
Gidday Ian, missed this bit... If the object looks like the photo I have added, see 2 new Photos, then yes that is 96P/Machholz, An animation is available...
Dear colleagues! Comet C/2007E1 (Garradd) in a stage outburst? The comet was observed visually in 11-cm binokular. Comet very diffuse. 2007 Apr. 06.87 (UT):...
G'Day Allan ... Okay, I'll reveal my ignorance here. I'm assuming that the figures 69, 309 are pixels (not millimeters or pica or anything like that) from the...
I've just taken some images for astrometric measurement. I've compared the images (5 sec exposures) with images taken on Mar 27 (20 sec exposures - it wasn't...
Further to my earlier image, I've posted an image taken tonite at: http://tinyurl.com/2t7pmv The image size is about 6 arc mins square. The comet is very...
I confirm Dave's observations. No changes in brighteness. Only small linear rise due Earth-Comet geometry during last week. Comet is condensed but weak coma is...