Dear colleagues, Bright comet C/2007 W1 ( Boattini ) will pass near by bright Messier clusters. http://www.aerith.net/comet/rendezvous/current.html 2008 June...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Jun 2, 2008 4:19 pm
Dear colleagues, Brightening comet C/2007 G1 ( LINEAR ) will pass near by bright globular clusters. http://www.aerith.net/comet/rendezvous/current.html 2008...
14361
Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Jun 2, 2008 4:20 pm
Dear colleagues, Bright comet C/2006 OF2 ( Broughton ) will pass near by M33 and NGC 752. http://www.aerith.net/comet/rendezvous/current.html 2008 June 7 4h...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Jun 2, 2008 4:21 pm
Dear colleagues, Comet C/2008 J4 ( McNaught ) is extremely diffuse with no condensation. But Michael Jaeger reported it is brightening up to 13.5-14.0 mag. It...
14363
Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Jun 2, 2008 4:58 pm
Dear colleagues, http://www.aerith.net/comet/recovery.html The following comets are predicted to be bright already, but not been observed yet. ...
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Alan Hale
ahale15
Jun 3, 2008 1:59 am
Comet McNaught C/2008 J4 Undoubtedly, this ranks among the most difficult comets that I've observed. Rob McNaught's discovery report, as well as CCD images...
14366
gustavo_muler
Jun 3, 2008 8:39 am
about comet P/1997 v1 larsen. hello group. I´ve tried comet larsen on 31-05-2008 and did not get it. in the place is not in magn. brigther than 19, cos I have...
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Dmitry Chestnov
astroched
Jun 3, 2008 9:19 am
Hello Gustavo, The area you searched is a little too small. On JPL page http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=P/1997+V1 we can see the uncertainty of comet's...
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Michael Mattiazzo
cometmanau
Jun 3, 2008 10:06 am
Hello all, A report of comet C/2007 W1 Boattini from last night. The comet is still brightening, but the rate has slowed. Visual observation: 2008 June 2.40...
14369
Alan Hale
ahale15
Jun 5, 2008 2:39 am
Comet 15P/Finlay Within a period of a few days this is the second comet located low in the eastern sky before dawn that I've added to my tally, although this...
14370
Maik Meyer
maiki666
Jun 6, 2008 6:17 am
Hi list, for those who do not subscribe to the ICQ I recommend downloading the pdf (very large 41 MB!) of a paper by Zdenek Sekanina on the 17P outburst. This...
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RICHARD MILES
gallileo99uk
Jun 6, 2008 9:25 am
Maik, Thanks for the pointer to the ICQ paper. I had read the abstract previously so having the full text is very useful. In his paper, Sekanina only deals...
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Dave Herald
dave_herald
Jun 6, 2008 10:15 am
I've posted an image of this comet taken a short time ago - June 6.4 - at: http://tinyurl.com/5rhx9a The image size is 15 x 10 arc mins. Tracking was on the...
14373
algwat
Jun 6, 2008 10:25 am
Gidday All, Has any of the members from this forum been able to site or image this comet? Given is close proximity to the sun? I would like to know if it is...
14374
gvnn64
Jun 6, 2008 10:51 am
... by the ... Dear Richard, I read with interest your preprint. I take this opportunity to provide some personal comments about it, hoping that you will find...
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RICHARD MILES
gallileo99uk
Jun 6, 2008 11:50 am
... This is the fundamental misconception that astronomers have made and continue to make. The secret is in the microporous nature of a 'very' thin crust that...
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RICHARD MILES
gallileo99uk
Jun 6, 2008 1:58 pm
Dear Giovanni et al., One other point I should raise involves a misunderstanding which astronomers have concerning the physical strength of comet nuclei. It...
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Juan Antonio Henrí...
jahensan
Jun 6, 2008 2:38 pm
... the pdf ... Thank you Mike I will read it with great interest.... :-) Greetings, Juan A. Henríquez Santana Obs. Atlante J51 http://atlante.org.es...
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gvnn64@...
gvnn64
Jun 6, 2008 2:58 pm
Dear Richard, thanks for your comments. Your approach to comet's constitution is really unconventional (well, "creative"; might be a more appropriate term,...
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V. Nevski
vitalinevski
Jun 6, 2008 5:14 pm
Hello! There is only one image on 4 January 2008: http://nevski.belastro.net/observing/arhiv/143p.html ... Vitali Nevski Vitebsk Observatory B42 ...
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Artyom Novichonok
artnovich
Jun 7, 2008 6:33 pm
Somebody observed this comet visually after connection with the Sun? http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2006OF2/2006OF2.html Yours faithfully, Artyom...
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Alan Hale
ahale15
Jun 7, 2008 7:16 pm
Dear Artyom, ... I've observed it a couple of times recently, at m1 ~13.1 (somewhat fainter than I had expected). Sincerely, Alan...
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Artyom Novichonok
artnovich
Jun 7, 2008 7:40 pm
Thank you, Alan! The visual estimations of magnitude are put on the photometric curve, given on the reference. By everything, the gradient of change of...
14383
Lance
lancearn
Jun 8, 2008 10:24 am
Just had the opportunity to do a night of shooting last night and was able to get a couple of pics of Boattini for the first time, even with thin cloud cover...
14384
biver_nicolas
Jun 9, 2008 8:24 am
Dear all, I am also very skeptical on how you can get nowadays liquid water inside cometary nuclei - at least the ones smaller than a few hundreds km in...
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RICHARD MILES
gallileo99uk
Jun 9, 2008 12:36 pm
... inside cometary nuclei - at least the ones smaller than a few hundreds km in diameter. I am not a full expert on this, but I think an object that spends...
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V. Nevski
vitalinevski
Jun 9, 2008 9:10 pm
Hello all! Has paid attention to observations of comet Comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup on Recent Comet Brightness Estimates ...
14387
walcom77
Jun 10, 2008 10:06 pm
Dear friends, we congratulate with the Spacewatch people and Gustavo Muler for their recovery, respectively, of P/1997 V1 (LARSEN) and ...
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gustavo_muler
Jun 11, 2008 8:12 pm
hello everyone...!!! answering the request, here are two pictures of the comet... http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/comets-ml/photos/view/8453?b=5 and a...
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gustavo_muler
Jun 11, 2008 8:19 pm
hello all again... many thanks for the regards, and congratulations as well for Ernesto and Giovanni for the recovering. as soon as I have some time, will be...
