Dear Group, I have captured 9 comets last night (on 1/2 Jul 2008) from Szeged Observatory, Hungary. Instruments: 40cm Newtonian+CCD. Targets was: C/2005 L3 -...
Great work Gabor My limited magnitude depending on conditions is around 18 and was unable to pic up 2008L2 or 2007W3, I would also put a DC value on 6P at 7...
Thanks James, From the University's observatory in Szeged we usually can reach 18 mag as you, but on 1st Jul was very clear night without moon. Try L2, it is...
Hi at all, at this address I have inserted an image of comet 67P http://comete.uai.it/67p/67P_080703.jpg photography was done remotely(AU) through the system ...
Hi all , Update the visual light curve of comet C/2007 W1 Boattini , http://webs.ono.com/jpab The radio nucleus estimated the relationship Delsemme ( 1987 ) r...
... mag Hello Maik and all, thanks to Gustavo, you can find an updated analysis of this comet in or blog: http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/ A pretty unusual...
This morning, shooting the boattini, I find the same shape of butterfly like before going to round the sun. Processed by Giovanni Sostero ( many thanks !) one...
I barely got to see this comet in twilight (10:45UT) July 4th...it looked like a large round (almost spherical) haze visually, with only a modest condensation....
Interesting. A month ago I posted an image taken on June 6 at:http://tinyurl.com/5rhx9a That image shows the same general shape of the come - except the...
Hello, The return of W1 after perihelion was a great unknown, and it was necessary to observe. Well done Gustavo and Giovanni ... Greetings, Juan A.Henríquez ...
... might give some ... My impression is that, if we take the ion tail axis as a reference, these "wings" has kept their configuration since last May: nearly ...
I was just wondering if anyone out there saw Comet Arend-Roland in the mid-fifties. It was my first comet and I thought it was very impressive. Yes I am older,...
Hello, just wanted to point out a curious circumstance: the current aspect of C/2008 J1 (Boattini): http://tinyurl.com/67srs2 shares some resemblances with...
hello list ! thank you juan antonio and Giovanni...! I´ve post it before, but I cannot see it in the list. this morning I get very interesting photos of the...
Yeah, I saw the comet. But also met with cloudy skies, poor visibility, etc, etc, and so never did see that anti-tail. I learn very slow--I'm still fighting...
C/2007 N3 (Lulin): 2008 July 8.06 UT: m1=11.5, Dia.=1.7', DC=5, 20 cm SCT (77x). [ Comet clearly fainter than it was ten days ago ]. C/2008 J1 (Boattini): 2008...
Ah yes, Comet Arend-Roland, the first major comet I actually followed and seriously observed. Quite a beautiful and interesting looking object and since not...
The Computation Facility's webserver has apparently died, resulting in the unavailability of all CfA, SAO, MPC, CBAT and ICQ pages hosted on that machine. I...
I was interested in astronomy before I saw Arend-Roland. Seeing it "clinched" my interest and I've been an armchair astronomer ever since. I didn't know its...
This was the comet that started my interest in astronomy which I hold to this day. Though I didn't know it at the time, (I was only eleven) some of the best...
Although seeing the comet as a young man was a memorable sight and inspiring to say the least, the appearance of the image of it several months later (it took...
Clay and all, I didn't see Arend-Roland (wrong part of the world) but I do remember the old S&T Christmas ads for Unitron 60-mm. I also liked their other ad on...
David Seargent
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Jul 10, 2008 1:47 am
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Thanks for the feedback gentlemen. It is wonderful to know there are folks out there who actually saw Arend-Roland. OK, I'll admit I didn't know what it was...
Dear all, I have noticed the following observations were published on MPEC 2008-N31. 0085P C2008 07 05.06045 20 43 55.52 -23 29 15.3 17.9 N...
Akimasa Nakamura
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Jul 11, 2008 1:04 pm
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Dear Nakamura-san. We are very surprised, too, about this recovery! ... We tried the recovery of 85P during several nights, along the past few months, the...