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...
Dear colleagues, Brightening comet C/2007 G1 ( LINEAR ) will pass near by bright globular clusters. http://www.aerith.net/comet/rendezvous/current.html 2008...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
... 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...
Dear Giovanni et al., One other point I should raise involves a misunderstanding which astronomers have concerning the physical strength of comet nuclei. It...
... the pdf ... Thank you Mike I will read it with great interest.... :-) Greetings, Juan A. Henríquez Santana Obs. Atlante J51 http://atlante.org.es...
Dear Richard, thanks for your comments. Your approach to comet's constitution is really unconventional (well, "creative" might be a more appropriate term,...
Somebody observed this comet visually after connection with the Sun? http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2006OF2/2006OF2.html Yours faithfully, Artyom...
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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
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...