Hi all, can someone confirm this bright estimate: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/CometObs/message/3215 Cheers, Maik -- If they give you ruled paper, write...
15082
Piotr Guzik
piotrek16
Dec 1, 2008 11:07 am
Hi Maik, I observed 144P yesterday under very good conditions (NELM~7.0), it was pretty large (Dia. ~2.5'), slightly condensed (DC=3) and I estmated it at 11.6...
15083
Castell
szasa0
Dec 1, 2008 11:38 am
Hi Maik, we also observed this comet on Nov. 27. 144P was big and diffuse but not so bright. It is true the instrument was a 20" Dobsonian. For the question...
15084
Bob King
cometlynx
Dec 1, 2008 6:26 pm
Hi Maik, I should have chimed in earlier with my observation of 144P. Last week I used a Swan band filter on 144P, and from a dark site with my 37-cm ...
15085
l.elenin
Dec 1, 2008 7:42 pm
Hi all comet observers! My observations of 144P: 0144P C2008 11 17.13348 03 24 23.93 +20 40 30.6 14.7 N H10 0144P C2008 11...
15086
Mr Wyatt
outbackmanyep
Dec 1, 2008 11:05 pm
Hi all, the telescope used in question was a 14" SCT @ f/11. The coma was quite large, using the VSS method the comparison star was the best fit at the time. ...
15087
Alan Hale
ahale15
Dec 2, 2008 4:32 am
Hi everyone, I observed this comet this evening, and frankly didn't see it as large or as bright as some have. (A bit windy tonight, so there may have been...
15088
Alan Hale
ahale15
Dec 3, 2008 5:11 am
Comet Cardinal C/2008 T2 After several unsuccessful attempts over the past couple of months I finally succeeded in observing this comet on the evening of...
15089
perryhelion
Dec 3, 2008 7:26 am
See: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/35379224.html and http://www.lowell.edu/media/releases.php?release=20081202 If this turns out to be the case, I would...
15090
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shurpakov_A98@...
Dec 3, 2008 10:18 am
Computer translation... :-((((( Comet Cardinal C/2008 T2. Dear ALAN! You suggest to observe comet Cardinal C/2008 T2. Such supervision are at me. I have...
15091
P. Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Dec 3, 2008 11:17 am
Messages from this sender continue to be caught and sometimes disrupt my spam filters. I must manually find each such message and remove it before my mailbox...
15092
Maik Meyer
maiki666
Dec 3, 2008 11:43 am
Clay, ... this has something to do with kyrillic letters and that our character set is not able to display these letters. Cheers, Maik -- If they give you...
15093
P. Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Dec 3, 2008 11:58 am
Thanks for the explanation.....I often receive Cyrillic letters in e-mail so I did not suspect that to be the problem, but this is likely a Yahoo thing and...
15094
jinzhao_318
Dec 5, 2008 2:41 am
Is there anyone who have plan to do this journey? Regards Jin Beize Beijing, C42 Xingming Observatory...
15095
John Drummond
john_drummon...
Dec 5, 2008 5:30 am
Hi Jin, I plan to come there for it. I'm landing in Hong Kong and traveling around for two weeks in China to see the ancient warriors, Great Wall, etc before...
15096
Maik Meyer
maiki666
Dec 5, 2008 5:51 am
Hi all, I think you might be interested in this: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/sohohunter/message/2776 Cheers, Maik -- If they give you ruled paper, write...
15097
Bernd Brinkmann
b48doher
Dec 5, 2008 7:02 am
Hello Jin, ... yes I will travel to China to see the eclipse south west of Shanghai and afterwards attend the IWCA IV. Perhaps we already met us this year,...
15098
Gabor Santa
santa.gabor
Dec 5, 2008 9:43 am
... Hi! I checked the images and movies but there were nothing like comet. However, the resolution and quality was very bad, I couldn't identify the 9-mag HD...
15099
Piotr Guzik
piotrek16
Dec 5, 2008 8:37 pm
Hi Maik and Gábor, I also tried to locate the comet on SOHO images and I couldn't see it. Latest observations suggested that comets diameter is ~5'. 5' is...
15100
jinzhao_318
Dec 6, 2008 1:18 am
Dear John and Bernd: That's great. Now I'm in Beijing and my hometown is Hangzhou which is the closest city near Shanghai and is also the most famous city for...
15101
Michael Mattiazzo
cometmanau
Dec 6, 2008 6:08 am
Hello all, I have no trouble seeing C/2007 N3 Lulin in SOHO LASCO C3 images. I've done a stack of 5 images centered around 20UT on December 1 and made a ...
15102
Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Dec 7, 2008 12:30 pm
Dear Daniel, For your questions: a) The original prediction suggests that Comet Holmes should be around 21 mag (total magnitude) now. So indeed, it is brighter...
15103
Alan Hale
ahale15
Dec 12, 2008 9:20 pm
Hi everyone, Those of you who are members of, or who have been following the recent discussions on, the "stereohunter" group, or who receive the MPECs, are ...
15104
Eric J. Christensen
christenjames
Dec 13, 2008 12:19 am
This news made my day. I was also wondering, is it the first time that a 1-apparition comet has been recovered by a spacecraft, other than SOHO-discovered...
15105
Alan Hale
ahale15
Dec 13, 2008 12:49 am
Dear Eric, ... I can easily believe that! ... I do believe it is. I don't recall any previous such recoveries, even going back to IRAS days. Sincerely, Alan...
15106
Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Dec 14, 2008 11:21 am
Dear colleagues, P/2008 X4 = P/2003 K2 ( Christensen ) must have been brightening very rapidly in the evening sky from September to early December. I found...
15107
Alan Watson
algwat
Dec 14, 2008 11:42 am
Gidday all, Please see the two Photos I have recently added. For your consideration. Kind regards, Alan Watson Http://cometal.bigblog.com.au/index.do ... From:...
15108
Eric J. Christensen
christenjames
Dec 14, 2008 6:40 pm
Hello, I wouldn't be surprised if it did indeed brighten rapidly from September to December. However, I have to correct a data point I submitted to you: on...
15109
Maik Meyer
maiki666
Dec 14, 2008 6:57 pm
Eric, ... I covered roughly -10 to +10 and +15 to +25 days of the prediction and thus missed it. The second attempt was based on an alternative orbit that...
15110
Terry Lovejoy
terryjlovejoy
Dec 14, 2008 9:10 pm
Seiichi/List, I did take a series of images on November 30 around M55, but unfortunately I missed P/2008X4 by less than a quarter of a degree. Terry...
