great report Timo! I was thinking the components B and C of 73P/SW3 are technically different comets? and were very briefly marginally NE from a perfect...
I saw two naked eye comets with ~25 degrees of each other around 5h UT 31 December 2007 from the Dark Site observatory of the Houston Astronomical Society...
clickable links are on my blog (E.O.A.S.blog) http://eoas-dreric1kansas.blogspot.com/ ** A few years ago, I researched the subject of the Star of Bethlehem for...
I will never understamd the motivations for explaining the so-called "Christmas Star". Do some research on the Synoptic Gospels. You will find that Matthew And...
Ditto! The "star", assuming it ever existed as a specific object beyond the imagination or assumptions of the Gospel writer; is of no practical or relevance...
Are you kidding? these clowns cant even get on TBN. OH wait maybe they did. Respectfully James--- In comets- ... called ... Matthew And ... added their ... ...
Dear colleagues, I updated the light curve of 17P/Holmes up to now: http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/0017P/2007.html Comet Holmes did not fade at all since...
Dear all, The Star of Bethlehem is only mentioned (in passing) in Matthew's gospel, which scholars agree was written mainly for Jews and carries the message...
David Seargent
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Jan 2, 2008 3:48 am
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... Although this is indeed suggested by the majority of the reported observations, if accepted as real, it raises some troubling questions with regard to what...
John, The summation of both 1.the large apparent size of the coma and 2.the combined brightnesses of all the stars and galaxies seen through the coma (as 17P...
This thread seems to be drifting off into dangerously off topic...best to tack before it runs aground! Kevin Conod kdconod@... [Non-text portions of this...
... Why would you say that? If it did exist, I would think a great many people would love to know about it. Cheers, Peter [Non-text portions of this message...
Happy New Year to all, ... as a moderator I have to say that I fear the same and would ask all to try to end this thread. Politics and religion are the most...
Hi at all. I try to give one contribution of mine on this comet photographed last night also from Talmassons: http://comete.uai.it/8p/8P_080101.jpg Then, with...
Hello John and all, Thank you for bringing this topic up John as I've been wondering about it too. Most observers would probably agree that 17P is considerably...
Any news on this? Haven't imaged the comet in a week or so. Finished reading Mr. Bortle's article in S&T (which just arrived) and according to this 72 days...
Any news on this? Haven't imaged the comet in a week or so. Finished reading Mr. Bortle's article in S&T (which just arrived) and according to this 72 days...
Any news on this? Haven't imaged the comet in a week or so. Finished reading Mr. Bortle's article in S&T (which just arrived) and according to this 72 days...
Comet 17P (m2) has been pretty consistent in our measurements during astrometry sessions over the past two weeks, not fading nor brightening. As of last night...
... Hi Mike, honestly I don't know what has happened. it considers that they are many days, that here from me, it is clear and that use always the same setup. ...
Dear Bob, John, Patrick and all, I have been securing two-colour (V- and I-band) imaging of 17P/Holmes for many nights now and am proposing to apply the...
... I had not thought there... or better, I had made only a summary control to see, if nearby, there was not a star. now that you have pointed out me him, I...
Hi John, and all, ... I don't think that this should happen to experienced observers and in fact many observers, which I would call experienced, have now their...
Hi all, ... I don't think it very likely that the comet will have a second outburst (but would be happy to be proven wrong). It would need an interesting...
According to one major review of cometary outbursts by D. Hughes from 1990 - free at http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990QJRAS..31...69H - the most dramatic ...
Hi Daniel, ... thanks or pointing this out. Reality and statistics (or probability) seem to match not very often. Cheers, Maik -- If they give you ruled paper,...
Hi all, I have updated my drawing gallery: Available galleries: Moon and planet, Comet (17P, C62007 F1, C/2007 T1) and Deepsky ...
Gabor Santa
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Jan 3, 2008 12:52 pm
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... Unfortunately, Patrick, while this may be true of electronic magnitude determinations, such an explanation is not applicable in explaining the situation...
Two thoughts on the matter: Electronically- I am wondering if it would be possible (come to think of it...I know it is possible) to write a program to...
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