Hi Mike, and everyone, I have a very busy work week this week, and will respond to most of the ... It was the first week of February, 1970. (42 years ago this...
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Jose Carvajal
jcarvajal_ma...
Feb 1, 2012 9:43 pm
Alan. Nice story about your first achievement and congrats for the the other 499!!. I always have liked to start a project like yours but now at 49, after 27...
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walcom77
Feb 3, 2012 10:50 am
Hi All We have just updated our blog with info and our confirmation image of the new comet P/2011 VJ5 (LEMMON): http://bit.ly/yNyjW4 Ciao, Ernesto Guido,...
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ligustri rolando
astroligu2002
Feb 3, 2012 5:11 pm
large field https://picasaweb.google.com/107386404051271210368/CometeDiRolandoLigustriCASTItalia#5704957504575254530 close-up ...
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Pieter-Jan Dekelver
pieterjan87
Feb 4, 2012 10:54 am
Hello, Finally some observations, still from 15-01-2012 C/2010 G2 Hill 78P/Gehrels You can look them on the website: www.astronomie.be/pieterjan.dekelver Look...
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W.-t. Hsu
pachacotihui
Feb 4, 2012 1:59 pm
Hi list, We C42 Xingming Observatory managed to capture the comet with strong interference from moonlight. Here's the link to images I processed:...
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walcom77
Feb 4, 2012 6:00 pm
Hi All We just updated our blog with info and image of newly discovered comet C/2012 B3 (LA SAGRA): http://bit.ly/ya4XsJ Ciao, G. Sostero, K. Rochowicz, E....
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Alan Hale
ahale15
Feb 6, 2012 3:55 am
Hi everyone, First off, I would like to thank everyone for their kind comments and words of encouragement after I successfully added comet no. 500. (And...
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David Seargent
seargent@...
Feb 7, 2012 3:12 am
Hi all, This is a special request to Russian members of this group and might be a little off topic. On July 3 (Gregorian date) 1290 a fall of meteorites is...
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amar10sharmaa
Feb 7, 2012 9:16 am
This is an old compilation, however I realized it only now to post here. A historic account of a comet discovery (C/1949 N1 Bappu-Newkirk-Bok) by the only...
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Jean Meeus
jmeeus@...
Feb 7, 2012 9:20 am
The official name of that comet is Bappu-Bok-Newkirk, not Bappu-Newkirk-Bok. Jean Meeus ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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amar10sharmaa
Feb 7, 2012 9:28 am
Apologies for the typo. Thanks Jean. Have changed the subject line duly. The blog however, has the correct designation....
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terryjlovejoy
Feb 7, 2012 10:04 am
Thank you for posting Amar. Interesting to read about the politics of this discovery - poor Bappu! I also find it interesting that Bok and Newkirk got their...
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amar10sharmaa
Feb 7, 2012 3:14 pm
Hello Terry, Yes it must have been such hard for Bappu back then, especially just as a young lad doing his research (post-doc I guess) having recently moved to...
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amar10sharmaa
Feb 8, 2012 4:38 am
A typo, again. Discovery of Uranus rings were not in January '77. I have verified "The occultation of SAO 158687 by Uranus was on March 10, 1977". Ok, now...
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Jim
jim_scotti
Feb 8, 2012 5:29 pm
The only problem with this story is that after checking both Vsekhsvyatskii & Kronk, they both tell a different version of the discovery of this comet where...
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owen@...
obrazell
Feb 8, 2012 5:46 pm
And the same with the Shoemaker Levy comets :-) Owen ... From: comets-ml@yahoogroups.com To: Cc: Sent:Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:29:24 -0000 Subject:[comets-ml] Re:...
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Jim
jim_scotti
Feb 9, 2012 6:28 pm
Yes, I had the Shoemaker-Levy collaboration in mind when describing the observing teamwork. Gene and David would load the film and guide the exposures and...
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Alan Watson
algwat
Feb 10, 2012 4:01 am
The current orbit is still working ok, 20120209 - this comet is still tracking nicely, seen here near STAR HIP649. Images via Itelescope T11 when the comet was...
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thom
scopemaker2001
Feb 10, 2012 10:22 pm
Congrats to Rob McNaught on yet another one. Thom Peck...
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David
jarnacobserv...
Feb 11, 2012 6:48 am
One of the photograpohs following page 108 of my biography opf BArt Bok, "The MAn Who Sold the Milky Way" (University of arizona Press, 1993) is the discovery...
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walcom77
Feb 11, 2012 11:58 am
... Our confirmation image and info about this new comet C/2012 C1 (MCNAUGHT): http://bit.ly/wPE2Rd Ciao, Ernesto Guido, Giovanni Sostero & Nick Howes ...
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Rob
kaufman_rob
Feb 12, 2012 12:40 pm
With the Moon moving back, I had a go at imaging the comet tonight with little expectation, so was very surprised to see around 7 degrees of tail showing...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Feb 12, 2012 1:21 pm
Hello all, object T0003C looks very interesting and might be one of the rare occasions when a NEOCP object might be confirmed visually. The current orbit from...
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Rob
kaufman_rob
Feb 12, 2012 2:03 pm
Here's a link to Lester Barnes' image of W3 from tonight, 12 Feb 2012 (circa 12:00 UT). Comet shows quite clearly, with around 50 arcminutes of the tail...
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Vitali Nevski
vitalinevski
Feb 12, 2012 6:19 pm
Visual estimate of T0003C with 30-cm reflector: Feb. 12.72, m1=11.5, coma =5', DC=1, very diffuse object. Vitali Nevski Vitebsk Observatory MPC-B42...
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Burkhard
kometarium
Feb 12, 2012 6:56 pm
Hello Rob, great to see that the comet is still around!! If weather permits this coming week, IŽll give it another try. Regards Burkhard...
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walcom77
Feb 12, 2012 11:16 pm
Hi All On the blog our confirmation image of new comet C/2012 C2 (BRUENJES): http://bit.ly/xwM8HJ Congrats to Fred Bruenjes for this discovery! Ciao, Ernesto...
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amar sharma
amar10sharmaa
Feb 13, 2012 1:09 am
An amateur CCD discovery? There is no page in his website which talks about him. But he seems to be an avid astro photographer. Wow! Congrats to Bruenjes...
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Artyom Novichonok
artnovich
Feb 13, 2012 2:20 am
My confirmation image here: http://www.astronomy.ru/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=91474.0;attach=376836;image Total mag = 10.6m, coma=7'. Regards, ...
