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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
... 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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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