Dear list, from June 03 - 06, I will be attending the IWCA III in Paris, France. Most likely I will will have no possibility to check e-mail. Thus it will not...
Venus is now visible in SOHO. http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime-images.html You can see it in the LASCO C3 images now, and should be able to see it...
Well, I finally saw Comet LINEAR T7 again on Thursday evening. I was at the ASH Naylor Observatory and observed it with the 17" f/15 classical Cassegrain at...
Dear colleagues, The following comets are not observed recently and current brightness is uncertain. 29P, C/2001 HT50, 65P, 53P and 116P have been already in...
Dear colleagues, The following comets are waiting for the first observation now. 56P will be observed soon. 58P has finally gone without any observations in...
Hello Group - After several days of "marine layer" I was able to find LINEAR T7 last night,here in California, just below, and southwest of Alphard. What a...
Hi all, I am back from Paris after a really great meeting! I am looking forward to meet you all again in 2009 in Japan. I hope to post a report and images...
... Dear Seiichi, J. Moreno raported C/2001 G1 at 16.5 on May 15. I try also catch this comet on May 28. There's small object which slight moved at correct...
... The planet has also been visible from ground until June 7, 2004. I have followed the planet recently and my last pre-transit observation was made on Jun....
imaged C/2003 K4 LINEAR on 7 June at 0534 UT. C-11 scope at f/5 and MX716 CCD camera. A small movie is included on my New Image Page linked below to...
Any thoughts on what this comet might be like in 04/2005? On August 24th of 2004 it crosses the top of M82 although it shows to still be mag 14.2. On April...
Hello all: I have captured the two tails of comet 2003 K4. The animation is in the web. The images are of 300". Regards Pepe Manteca Observatorio de Begues...
Dear Maciej, ... Thank you for your observations. I updated my light curve: http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2001G1/2001G1.html As you pointed out, it seems...
... Unlikely. With a period of only 3.2 years (shorter than that for 2P/Encke) a comet in an orbit like 2004 LG would be depleted of volatiles very quickly....
I have been reading on these comets and find, according to Guide8 that tonight 06/10-11/2004 would be a good time to image them. 78P and 119P are only 45...
Mike, ... Look there: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/LastCometObs.html 78P has been observed recently at mag 17 119P hasn't been observed for a few...
Thanks. I am always looking for possibilities. Mike ... observations ... observed at mag 20 last November ... recently ... mention brightness...) is probably...
Yesterday 16/06/2004 I used the BRT- SLOOH telescoop(solo mission) to find the comet C2003 K4 Linear. Observation time 22h 10 UT Mt Tied Tennerif. Clear & dark...
Dear All, last night, looking at this comet, I spotted it around mag 13.0, 13.5 T (CCD). Just checked the MPC website and they give the comet at mag 12.0 T on...
Dear colleagues, # Note that this information is about C/2004 K3, not C/2003 K4. I received the recent image of C/2004 K3 from Michael Jager. He reported the...
Dear colleagues, I received the recent images of C/2003 K4 from Rolando Ligustri and Michael Jager. http://www.aerith.net/pictures/comet.html Rolando Ligustri...
Dear Yoshida-san, according to the unfiltered photometry obtained by F. Montanucci and myself, we noticed for C/2003 K4 (LINEAR) a rise of almost 0.5 ...
Hello, this night I measured C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) before the arriving of a cloud front. This is what I found: COMET C/2003 K4 (LINEAR) Total-magnitude and...
Dear Maciej, ... Pepe Manteca and Akimasa Nakamura tried to catch C/2001 G1 but failed. Now it must be fainter than 20 mag. J. Moreno's astrometry is available...
"The comet, examined in a close flyby in January by NASA's Stardust spacecraft, has towering protrusions and steep-walled craters that seem to defy gravity....
... Really, I think rather more is being made of this object's appearance than is called for. We have examined so few cometary nuclei close up that we are not...