Do you remember comet Kohoutek 1973f ? I bet that older readers of mpml/comet-ml for sure and younger ones at least heard about it . I interviewed its...
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Rodney Austin
rodcomet
May 2, 2012 4:10 am
My main memory of 1973f was attempting to do photometry on the central condensation over the Xmas of 1973, at the Mt John Observatory in New Zealand. To that...
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David Hoover
dhoover8448
May 2, 2012 2:25 pm
I'm just a casual visual amateur astronomer with a basic Dob telescope who got the comet bug many years ago. Kohoutek was the first comet I found in my then...
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David
jarnacobserv...
May 2, 2012 8:44 pm
A finbe interview with the famous Dr. Kohoutek. I remember his comet very well, including P/Kohoutek (1986k) which I observed visually, and especially...
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Frans van Loo
frans.v.loo@...
May 3, 2012 10:02 am
Dears, An old amateur picture you can find it on my website: FLOORT.BE. http://www.flooart.be/item.php?id=95 The comet was one of my first " great" comets....
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
May 3, 2012 1:45 pm
Dear Martin Masek, Thank you very much fof your information about these comets! Today I added your reports in my web pages. ...
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denis buczynski
dennis555002
May 3, 2012 7:20 pm
Hello all. The British Astronomical Association Comet Section has introduced a comet discussion group to enable members to communicate comet related issues.Our...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
May 4, 2012 2:22 am
Dear colleagues, C/2011 L4 will pass near by M4 in mid May. 2012 May 18 7h UT 0.682 deg ( 40.9 arcmin) C/2011 L4 ( PanSTARRS ) 16h23m.5 -25o51' 13.4 mag ...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
May 6, 2012 2:45 pm
Dear colleagues, Observations of C/2011 U3 ( PanSTARRS ) are welcome. It has not been observed since late January, but it must be already bright at 15 mag. In...
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Nick Howes - FT Project
howesnickhowes
May 10, 2012 1:46 pm
Here is our team blog update post on the recent successful imaging using the Faulkes Telescopes (F65 and E10) by R.Miles and our team of Comet...
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gvnn64@...
gvnn64
May 11, 2012 8:17 am
One thought about this subject: according to our data, currently 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is a starlike object at R magnitude about 22.5. I suspect that well...
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amar10sharmaa
May 14, 2012 12:21 pm
Hello historical comet fans, Happened to stumble from archives upon the following mail sent by me, in 2006 and 2009. However there was no follow up to those. ...
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kronk@...
gary_kronk
May 14, 2012 1:45 pm
Hi Amar, This song may have been written about the prediction that Earth might be struck by a comet in 1832. Only three comets were seen in that year: the ...
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jbortle@...
cnj999
May 14, 2012 1:57 pm
Amar - Considering that there were no really bright comets seen in 1832, a reasonable and straight forward answer to the question of the song's origins/meaning...
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yves lhoumeau
yveslhoumeau
May 15, 2012 4:20 am
Hello, i'm a music teacher (Hornist) and amateur astronomer i'm interesting on links with music and astronomy. so, thank's i've discoverd this song (sorry for...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
May 15, 2012 6:03 am
Dear colleagues, Several comets are waiting for first observation, especially by the southern observers. http://www.aerith.net/comet/recovery.html P/2005 K3...
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Richard
gallileo99uk
May 16, 2012 10:10 am
To all observers, Recently an interesting evolution of features within the inner coma of Comet Holmes imaged some days after the initial major outburst of 2007...
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Alan Hale
ahale15
May 17, 2012 7:45 am
Hello everyone, From the time I first picked up this comet in late March, all through April, this comet seemed to be brightening slowly but steadily,...
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terryjlovejoy
May 17, 2012 11:01 am
Thats interesting, I've got some images from May 13 using my Hyperstar setup that shows an almost starlike object of mag 13.5! I'll have more images from...
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Gary Hug
sandloth36
May 17, 2012 11:18 am
I also imaged it tonight and got 13.0 to 13.2 using a wide annulus. cheers, Gary...
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Todd Augustyniak
ngc1976sct
May 17, 2012 11:21 am
I can confirm that. I viewed C/2011 L4 on May 14.25 UT through a 50.8 cm telescope and my 30.5 cm telescope. The comet is strongly condensed and I...
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Bomber2 Panther
outbackmanyep
May 17, 2012 11:23 am
When will the MPC fix the discrepancy? Cheers,Chris W ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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comets-ml@yahoogroups...
May 17, 2012 11:47 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the comets-ml group. File :...
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terryjlovejoy
May 17, 2012 12:22 pm
Hi Chris, The elements given in the last MPEC seem OK: http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K12/K12J16.html Meanwhile here is some imagery from tonight: ...
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Gerhard Dangl
gerhard.dangl
May 17, 2012 12:23 pm
This I can confirm. Astrometrica updated with elements from the MPC showed dRA +2.8' and dDe -1.3' for all C/2011 L4 positions on my images from 2012 05 14. ...
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Soulier Jean-FranÃ...
jeffcomete
May 17, 2012 1:38 pm
Good morning. Â C 2011 L4, 2012 05 16.98, m2=13.3 (+/- 0.1) R.O : 14.25" Echa. 2.85"/pix. Picture :...
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Alan Hale
ahale15
May 17, 2012 3:29 pm
Thanks everyone for the feedback. It appears that Terry hit the issue right on the head. I was using the MPC's ephemeris service, but when I just now compared...
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Pieter-Jan Dekelver
pieterjan87
May 17, 2012 5:27 pm
Hello, I observed several comets past few days: You can find all information on my website: www.astronomie.be/pieterjan.dekelver COD X13 COM Long. 5 40 46.6 E,...
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Rich
stargazer_08...
May 17, 2012 7:07 pm
Also note the J.J. Gonzalez recent m1 of 12.2 for this comet. I think he picks up more of the outer coma than almost anyone due to having a better site, and...
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Alan Hale
ahale15
May 18, 2012 7:47 am
Hello everyone, I found the comet tonight, easily visible at the Horizons position: May 18.29, m1=13.5, 0.5' coma, DC = 8+ This whole exercise has been a...
