Hi all - The IAU orbit and ephemeris page for Ikeya-Zhang at: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/2002C1.html seems to indicate that the comet...
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Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Jun 2, 2002 1:53 pm
Hi Mitch - At present, I am not comfortable reporting on Pons Winnecke, as it is in a very rich star field and is NOT the projected magnitude of the...
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perryhelion
Jun 2, 2002 2:37 pm
Hi Clay - I observed the comet around 9:00 UT on May 18th and 20th. On those days it was in northeast Capricornus roughly between Gamma/Delta Cap and Beta...
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Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Jun 2, 2002 3:32 pm
Thanks - your method certainly was the best way to confirm; it certainly is a tough one right now and the passage through such rich star fields has pretty much...
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perryhelion
Jun 2, 2002 4:19 pm
Hi Clay - I just remembered that an image taken on May 14 by Michael Jager can be found at: http://www.theastronomer.org/comets/7p_20020514_jager.jpg If you go...
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Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Jun 2, 2002 4:48 pm
Will do on both counts, Mitch and thanks....I have five LINEARS on my regular list, but have not checked on C/2001 N2 in some time....nice to have another...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Jun 2, 2002 5:23 pm
Mitch, all I know comes from http://www.oaa.gr.jp/~muramatu/comet/c2002c1.htm Here three observations by station 644 (NEAT, Mt. Palomar) of 2001 Aug 25 are...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Jun 2, 2002 6:10 pm
Hi, I have just updated the image gallery of the German Comet Section Homepage. It also includes a new image of 7P/Pons-Winnecke, taken in mid-May, by M....
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Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Jun 2, 2002 8:30 pm
Thank you Maik - That image of Pons-Winnecke clearly demonstrates the difficulty of it acquisition, and the star-filled field is all too familiar! The...
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Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Jun 2, 2002 8:39 pm
A couple of inquiries prompts me to note that when possible observable (CCD) imaging is done for comets throughout the sky with one or more of four 12" SCTs...
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Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Jun 3, 2002 12:22 pm
Hello to all - For reference, I have just updated the listing of our "observable comets" that we are presently keeping up with at both Conway and Petit Jean...
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Seiichi Yoshida
comet@...
Jun 4, 2002 1:12 am
Dear colleagues, The following comets are waiting for the first observation now. Yusuke Ezaki observed 125P on Mar. 12 as 18.0 mag, but not yet confirmed on...
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Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Jun 4, 2002 1:51 am
Excellent update..thanks. Dr. Clay ... From: Seiichi Yoshida To: comets-ml@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 8:09 PM Subject: [comets-ml] Waiting for...
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Seiichi Yoshida
comet@...
Jun 4, 2002 9:10 am
Dear colleagues, ... Thank you. BTW, I missed the observations of 57P announced in M.P.E.C. 2002-K67. ... It was already observed May 16 at 17.7 mag. It is a...
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Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Jun 4, 2002 9:30 am
I have been able to image 57P on one occasion via CCD, and two weeks prior I attempted with no success: May 23.379 @ m1 = 15.97 / Dia = 6" / CD = 2/9 on May...
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KCStarguy@...
kcstarguy2001
Jun 4, 2002 1:24 pm
I was doing some imaging of my pics of my April 27 Ikeya-zhang shots with photoshop. I was trying to use different time exposures and merge them . Not sure...
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Giovanni Sostero
gvnn64
Jun 4, 2002 1:56 pm
... Dr.Eric, C/2002C1 was very generous in the production of fine details in its inner coma, included jets and shells. I don't know if we are talking about the...
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Michael Mattiazzo
cometmanau
Jun 4, 2002 3:57 pm
Hi all, Recent comet images of 2000 WM1 LINEAR and 2002 C1 Ikeya-Zhang are now available from the photos section taken with a 100-200mm zoom lens, starlight...
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Seiichi Yoshida
comet@...
Jun 4, 2002 4:23 pm
Dear colleagues, Here is the list of interesting rendezvous in June. QW Ser (15h26m13s.99, +08d18'03".8) is a cataclysmic variable. It is just in outburst...
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tricks46
Jun 6, 2002 11:12 pm
I have started going back through negatives and processing images which have not been touched sence February 2002. Surprising how many have good images on...
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Martin Lehky
makalaki@...
Jun 7, 2002 12:52 pm
The comet C/2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang) fading enought quickly. As you can see below. During observing the conditions was very good and the comet near of zenith. ...
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Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Jun 7, 2002 1:18 pm
Martin - thanks for this update; I am getting into the mid-7's on my estimates of C/2002 C1, possibly due to pretty heavy humidity in the air here in Arkansas....
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cnj999
Jun 8, 2002 3:38 am
... the air ... binoculars) ... the ... My most recent visual observations of this object give: May 21.08, 5.4, 15' (J.Bortle, 10x50B) June 2.11, 6.2, 14'...
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Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Jun 8, 2002 6:56 am
Yes, the same for me....in binoculars; I was wondering if there were telescopic records of inner coma changes. This is truly where the coma has changed, and...
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tricks46
Jun 8, 2002 4:00 pm
After a couple of months behind his drafting table, I finally got my partner, Steve Cox, to return to his telescope at Rocky Top Observatory. We had planed to...
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Piotr Guzik
piotrekguzik
Jun 9, 2002 2:37 pm
Hi All! At the evening of first of June I observed comet Ikeya-Zhang with binoculars, but I had some problems with estimation of brightness of comet, because...
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Piotr Guzik
piotrekguzik
Jun 9, 2002 2:37 pm
Hi All! Some months ago I read about two comets wchich were found in 18th century as periodic objects, but were observed only in one apparition. They were:...
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Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Jun 9, 2002 4:25 pm
Interesting.....I always avoid estimating brightness of a comet either visually or photoelectrically when either near (within a coma diameter) or embedded over...
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David Seargent
seargent@...
Jun 10, 2002 1:47 am
... From: Piotr Guzik <g22@...> To: <comets-ml@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 12:11 AM Subject: [comets-ml] Old, lost periodic comets ...
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polakis2000
Jun 10, 2002 4:26 am
I posted this note to a deep-sky observers' list, forgetting that I was also subscribed to this one. I am surprised not to see more press about the anti-tail...
