Hello Just 2 comets because the fog arrived very fast, at midnight! 49P/Arend-Rigaux (16.3) http://www.astreschevelus.fr/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=364 C/2012 A2...
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cbellh47
charbell...
Mar 6, 2012 11:35 am
Comet C/2012 E1 (Hill) discovered by G96 Mt. Lemmon Survey. Observer R. E. Hill 1.5-m reflector on March 2, 2012...
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Thom Peck
scopemaker2001
Mar 6, 2012 12:47 pm
Ditto from me. Thom ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Pieter-Jan Dekelver
pieterjan87
Mar 6, 2012 12:51 pm
Way the go Hill! Best regards, Mr. Pieter-Jan Dekelver pieterjan.dekelver(at)gmail.com www.astronomie.be/pieterjan.dekelver ... From: "Thom Peck"...
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ligustri rolando
astroligu2002
Mar 6, 2012 7:18 pm
this photo proposes the movement of the comet Garradd over four days while going through the constellation of Ursa Minor ...
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Benjamin Brink
tekbasse
Mar 7, 2012 8:43 am
Beautiful compilation, Rolando Ligustri. Is the longer (in appearance) ion tail pointing away from Ophiuchus? If so, might there be some correlation with inert...
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ligustri rolando
astroligu2002
Mar 7, 2012 5:09 pm
... thanks Benjamin ... in my photo North is always at the top and the East to the left, though the pictures are in 2 dimensions, If I consider this, at the...
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Benjamin Brink
tekbasse
Mar 8, 2012 6:25 am
Very interesting. I had a little time to hone my casual estimate, and came up with circa 14h RA intersecting the ecliptic, in the middle of Virgo and closer to...
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Benjamin Brink
tekbasse
Mar 8, 2012 6:28 am
... ..for the possible source oriented opposite the tail....
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Michal Kusiak
komeciarz
Mar 9, 2012 1:42 pm
Dear All, Please look at the messages about possible SWAN Kreutz comet discovery posted via Yahoo SOHO Hunter mailing list. ...
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jbortle@...
cnj999
Mar 9, 2012 4:24 pm
In response to the question posed below and as a clarification of the situation for all, this object (if indeed real) would be located today about 19 degrees...
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rdotdaneelolivaw
rdotdaneelol...
Mar 11, 2012 9:56 pm
Hi All, A Kreutz comet has just entered STEREO-B in the March 11th images (so far, just the low quality JPEG images are available). You can see it entering...
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David Seargent
seargent@...
Mar 12, 2012 4:06 am
Hi all, With sungrazers back in our thoughts again, I thought that I might throw in some ideas about the Sekanina-Chodas prediction of a 21st C cluster, of...
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terryjlovejoy
Mar 12, 2012 11:29 am
Hi Dave, Interesting idea! However, the more I think about this the more it puzzles me :( The 1963 comet moved in distinctly Type I orbit and you would thus...
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Ian Musgrave & Peta O...
ianfmusgrave
Mar 13, 2012 1:48 pm
G'Day All I made a video http://astroblogger.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/kreutz-sungrazer-found-in-swan-images.html Cheers! Ian ... ...
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Rob
kaufman_rob
Mar 14, 2012 1:19 am
With the Moon moving back in evening skies, images are still showing the tail of C/2011 W3. It's now about 2 AU from Earth and going on for 2.2 AU from the...
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Adam
adam_limax7
Mar 14, 2012 11:16 am
I made animation from STEREO-B HI1 13 frames (11.03.2012 - 15:59 to end of day) ...
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Ian Musgrave & Peta O...
ianfmusgrave
Mar 14, 2012 12:37 pm
G'Day All Beautiful I've made an animation of the SOHO images http://astroblogger.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/comet-swan-enteres-soho-lasco-c3-and.html Cheers! Ian...
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Adam
adam_limax7
Mar 14, 2012 9:31 pm
Take a look to images from 12 Mar. 2012 and comet's tail hittig by CME ...
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Ian Musgrave & Peta O...
ianfmusgrave
Mar 14, 2012 11:54 pm
G'Day All Comet SWAN is in LASCO C2 and STEREO Behind COR2 and COR1 beacon images. It is evaporating. http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/images Cheers!...
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Ian Musgrave & Peta O...
ianfmusgrave
Mar 15, 2012 2:45 am
G'day All Images of comet SWAN evaporating in STEREO http://astroblogger.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/comet-swan-enters-lasco-c2-and-stereo.html...
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David Seargent
seargent@...
Mar 15, 2012 7:06 am
Hi all, This seems to be an ordinary mini-Kreutz, albeit one at the brighter/larger end of the scale, that was experiencing an atypical outburst when captured...
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RolfApitzsch
Mar 15, 2012 10:49 pm
Can it be assumed that RMAT012 plunged into the sun? It developed a nice tail approaching the sun. But neither LASCO C2 nor C3 showed it reappearing after...
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Alan Hale
ahale15
Mar 15, 2012 11:35 pm
Hi Rolf, ... It apparently disintegrated as it approached/passed through perihelion, just like all the other SOHO-discovered Kreutz comets. I still find it...
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Ian Musgrave & Peta O...
ianfmusgrave
Mar 16, 2012 11:27 am
G'Day All In STEREO COR1 you can see it evaporation as it skims approximately one/0ne and a half solar diameters away from the sun. Cheers! Ian ... ...
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Alan Watson
algwat
Mar 17, 2012 3:19 am
A COR2A view from 20120314, just needed to be a bit bigger? Kind regards, Alan Watson http://cometal-comets.blogspot.com.au/ [Non-text portions of this message...
After the the release of the new orbit for C/2012 E2 (SWAN) in MPEC 2012-F02 I went back and reprocessed my images from March 10 and to my suprise found a very...
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Michal Kusiak
komeciarz
Mar 17, 2012 10:45 am
Dear Terry, I can confirm your ground based observations! Including your positions to my SOHO and STEREO measurements I found this orbit solution. Astrometry: ...
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richtys11590
Mar 17, 2012 2:22 pm
Rolando I've been viewing your images of Comet Garradd and all I can say is absolutely beautiful. Thanks for the views. Rich Tyson...