I think I'll just have to get another one of my own. I'm working on my new 16" and finally it is making progress. Perhaps it will carry on the good tradition -...
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Alexei Pace
ReGeN555
Aug 1, 2011 1:53 pm
well for those who keep looking up there is always aesop's fable which comes in http://aesopsfables.org/F30_The-Astronomer.html alex [Non-text portions of this...
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Alan Hale
ahale15
Aug 1, 2011 5:42 pm
Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova A comet with a rather cumbersome name, due to its being independently discovered in 1948 by three of the world's top visual...
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Roger W. Sinnott
rwsinnott
Aug 2, 2011 2:04 am
Isn't it about time for a professional team to image the outward-bound Halley again? In March 2003, Olivier Hainaut's team used three of the 8.2-meter VLT...
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Robert McNaught
rmn@...
Aug 2, 2011 6:27 am
A mag 20.2V possible NEO found at E12 last night turned out to be 2P/Encke. As the last astrometry reported for it was 2010 Oct 06 I was wondering if this was...
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walcom77
Aug 2, 2011 8:21 am
Dear Rob ... Recently teacher Boaz and his students are carrying out an educational program with Faulkes Telescope to study comet 2P/Encke. They imaged it many...
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Μanos Kardasis
astromanos2002
Aug 2, 2011 9:17 am
Great work Anthony,as always! Manos Kardasis ________________________________ Απο: Anthony <anthony@...> Προς: comets-ml@yahoogroups.com ...
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kronk@...
gary_kronk
Aug 2, 2011 12:37 pm
The original press release for the March 2003 observations stated that the VLT should be able to observe the comet when it reaches its furthest point from the...
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John Menke
johnlmenke
Aug 2, 2011 3:10 pm
I took a spectrum of C2009P1 last night using my N18/DSS7 system. The comet has almost no features in the spectrum except for an excess of blue compared to a...
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ligustri rolando
astroligu2002
Aug 2, 2011 3:52 pm
https://picasaweb.google.com/astroligu/Varie#5636286494520005826 begin to see some activity in the tail best regards Rolando Ligustri ...
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gvnn64@...
gvnn64
Aug 4, 2011 11:46 am
Dear Rob, a few months ago, we were asked by an Israeli teacher, Boaz Ron-Zohar, to give some help about photometry of cometary nuclei, for a didactical...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Aug 5, 2011 4:01 am
Dear list, I welcome any astrometry of this comet sent to me off-list. Thanks in advance, Maik -- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. * Juan...
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gvnn64@...
gvnn64
Aug 5, 2011 3:20 pm
Dears all, today we observed a fragmentation event in comet 213P/Van Ness. In attach we post our report. We encourage confirmatory/follow-up observations. With...
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Luca Buzzi
buzzi_luca
Aug 5, 2011 5:46 pm
Dear all, here you can find an image and some information about the close approach of these two comets: http://schiaparelli204.wordpress.com/ Best regards, ...
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Paolo Bacci
asa-scienza
Aug 5, 2011 6:39 pm
Good Job Luca !!!! backman 2011/8/5 Luca Buzzi <lucabuzzi.204@...> ... -- ... Paolo Bacci B09 backman.altervista.org B33 www.astrofilialtavaldera.it 104...
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Juan Antonio Henr...
jahensan
Aug 5, 2011 6:57 pm
Great work!. The Weather is awful at Canary Islands, but I will try to follow-up the event. Greetings. Juan A.Henrquez MPC J51 http://atlante.org.es 2011/8/5...
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RICHARD MILES
gallileo99uk
Aug 5, 2011 10:42 pm
Hi Giovanni, Nick, Ernesto, et al., A very nice image of the fragment. I think I discovered the same fragment some 6 days ago in a fine image taken by Juanjo...
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RICHARD MILES
gallileo99uk
Aug 5, 2011 10:49 pm
Juanjo Gonzalez has just reported a few minutes ago a second night's astrometry of the main comet and of the minicomet from images taken on August 4. So that...
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gvnn64
Aug 5, 2011 11:33 pm
Hello Richard, thanks to you and Juanjo for these additional informations. We received a further confirmation from the "Trappist"; scope team. Any additional...
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Nick Howes
howesnickhowes
Aug 6, 2011 5:17 am
Richard An observatory in Japan reported it (in Japanese and with nothing on the MPC site as of today) on July 31st, we found their image after our submission....
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Juanjo Gonzlez
juanjgondiaz
Aug 6, 2011 5:17 am
Hello Richard and all, As you tell me i report astrometry to MPC for this night and other two. I also report it to CBAT with your discovery in my images with...
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Paolo Bacci
asa-scienza
Aug 6, 2011 5:18 am
Hello all my measure PB8A015 = Fragment comet 213P PB8A015 KC2011 08 06.00365 23 18 29.72 +02 37 06.9 18.9 R 104 PB8A015 KC2011 08 06.01091 23 18...
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walcom77
Aug 6, 2011 6:30 am
The first mpec is out: http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K11/K11P25.html Still no Cbet/Iauc. Our images are available also here: http://bit.ly/qt0jrt Ciao,...
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Hidetaka
sedna_90377
Aug 6, 2011 7:50 am
Hi all, After the communication from the staff of Ishigakijima Astronimical Observatory, I remotely confirmed the 2nd nucleus. They observed it at July 29.62...
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gvnn64
Aug 6, 2011 8:16 am
Dears Paolo and Idetaka, thanks for yours follow-up onservations of this interesting phenomena. Bye, Giovanni...
hello my image fragment 213P from 104 San Marcello http://tinyurl.com/3nf6qxc backman -- ... Paolo Bacci B09 backman.altervista.org B33...
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francois Kugel
fkspect
Aug 6, 2011 3:59 pm
Hello Giovanni and all, Nice work! I've imaged the comert last night and found mag. 19.4 fragment. gif animation here : ...
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gvnn64
Aug 6, 2011 4:21 pm
Hello Francois, thanks for yours feedback! Then in your images of July 31, the fragment is visible... Which is the previous date when you pictured the comet,...
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francois Kugel
fkspect
Aug 6, 2011 6:06 pm
Have got a strong condensation on my previous images of July 12.06, but I don't no if it is the B fragment. 0213P-B KC2011 07 12.06853 23 17 58.38 -00 51...
