... tail ... to ... Hello Akimasa, thanks for your info and effort. Up to now, the most convincing image I have seen about the antitail of C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) is...
7585
McCann, Stephen
stephen_mccann
Nov 2, 2004 8:32 am
Dear Seiichi, I read with interest your notice about 944 Hidalgo crossing the M31 region towards the end of November and thought that this may be a good chance...
7586
cnj999
Nov 2, 2004 1:04 pm
... M31 ... push my ... observations. ... Rather more difficult a sight in an 8-inch scope than might first be suggested. Remember, the 10-11 day old moon will...
7587
Maik Meyer
maiki666
Nov 5, 2004 8:27 am
I wonder how the mentioned other telescopes have missed it if it was that bright... http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=2572 Cheers, Maik -- If...
7588
Sebastian Hoenig
sfhoenig
Nov 5, 2004 8:49 am
... At least the brightness seems quite reasonable since BD+30 30 58.9 is around V 10.4 mag. Solar Elongation eas around 110deg, so quite reasonable for survey...
7589
Reiner M. Stoss
rms1kpde
Nov 5, 2004 1:34 pm
... "but despite calls to other telescopes in the hopes of capturing a confirming image, the object has not been observed again to date." Well, you need to...
7590
Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Nov 5, 2004 6:43 pm
Dear colleagues, The following comets are waiting for the first observation now. P/1983 V1 is in good condition in the Southern Hemisphere. P/1996 R2 must be...
7591
Gianluca Masi
g_masi
Nov 6, 2004 11:01 am
Dear comet fans, I'm looking on the web for old drawings showing comets of the past. The aim would be to show to some students how people saw these fashinating...
7592
MarkianJ
Nov 6, 2004 11:07 am
Dear Seiichi, I believe P/1983 V1 was recently observed by R. McNaught and P. Kilmartin and announced in IAUC 8428 and MPEC 2004-V25 as P/2004 V2 ...
7593
reinder j bouma
reinder_bouma
Nov 6, 2004 11:11 am
Cristovao Jacques did send the following sad news to the spanish comet observers list: "Our friend and great observer Vicente Ferreira de Assis Neto died from ...
7594
Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Nov 6, 2004 12:12 pm
Dear Mark Jaworsky, ... Yes. The recovery news was issued soon after my posting the mail. Please visit my web pages. They have been already updated :-) Best...
7595
Maik Meyer
maiki666
Nov 6, 2004 1:42 pm
Hi all, ... In early September I contacted Rob McNaught and suggested to him to try the recovery of this comet. He said he would put it on his observing...
7596
Maik Meyer
maiki666
Nov 7, 2004 7:44 am
Hi all, IAUC 8429 announces the following namings for previously unnamed comets: C/1996 R3 (Lagerkvist): after remeasuring NEAT positions by M. Meyer in Dec....
7597
Juan Lacruz
juan_lacruz
Nov 7, 2004 3:57 pm
... I've tried P/1999 DN3 on 2004/09/24 and 2004/11/06 at the nominal position +/- 8 arc min, up to mag 19.5 and fail to detect it. Juan...
7598
Juan Lacruz
juan_lacruz
Nov 7, 2004 4:06 pm
The following astrometry wasn't sent on time to the mpc, I don't know how well it fits with the rest but it's the first confirmation after detection. Best...
7599
Maik Meyer
maiki666
Nov 7, 2004 4:13 pm
Dear Juan, ... with the help of your observations even the unrestricted solution becomes periodic (this wasn't the case without them). Again excluding the two...
7600
Doug Durig
dougdurig
Nov 8, 2004 1:29 am
I tried 11/6 UT to about 20.5 mag +/- 20 arc min and found nothing but had a few background/flat problems and am going to reprocess these images. ... From:...
7601
gebell2000
Nov 8, 2004 5:32 am
Gianluca I recently visited the rare books section of the Linda Hall library in Kansas City Missouri. Among the books there was Hevelius' Cometographia...
7602
cnj999
Nov 9, 2004 2:11 pm
Although I haven't seen anyone else post on this subject, at least to me the situation is quite obvious. An overview of published visual data (the CCD info is...
7603
gvnn64@...
gvnn64
Nov 9, 2004 3:49 pm
Hello John, ... this comet is indeed an interesting object, that should deserve more attention in spite of its brightness (even considering its outbursts,...
7604
Jose Pablo
darkman71es
Nov 9, 2004 5:00 pm
Hello John : It is possible that he is correct the hypothesis of a change in the structure of the nucleo of the comet 29 P/sw-1, due to the years that we took...
7605
cnj999
Nov 10, 2004 2:40 pm
... progressively ... regime change in the comet nucleus, also the observing conditions could play a role: now this comet is reasonably well placed in the sky...
7606
David Strange
buzzlyr2001
Nov 10, 2004 4:51 pm
... The Sun has also been unusually active over this period - is there likely to be a solar trigger here? Perhaps there's a case for looking at a correlation...
7607
Gianluca Masi
g_masi
Nov 10, 2004 6:34 pm
... Dear Graham, thank you so muc for the very useful info! Sincerely, Gianluca -- ********************************************************************** *...
7608
Maik Meyer
maiki666
Nov 10, 2004 10:00 pm
Hi all, IAUC 8433 reports that LONEOS has observed this object as consisting of two components (fainter to brighter 102" west and 33" north). The ephemeris in ...
7609
Vegas Luna
vegas_luna
Nov 10, 2004 10:17 pm
... likely ... and ... I agree 29p is a favorite comet it is always there and produces nice outbursts of fanned tail... Vegas Luna...
7610
Maik Meyer
maiki666
Nov 11, 2004 6:24 am
Hi all, sorry for my typo: ... of course this is the Catalina Sky Survey, not LONEOS. I should really rather go to bed after a working day of 16+ hours instead...
7611
cnj999
Nov 11, 2004 1:05 pm
... Over the years there have been un-numbered attempts at correlating the outbursts of 29P (and many other comets as well) with various forms of solar...
7612
Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Nov 11, 2004 5:04 pm
Dear Juan Lacruz and Doug Durig, Thank you for your valuable not-seen observations. Today I plotted the observations. Please see the light curve: ...
7614
Juan Lacruz
juan_lacruz
Nov 11, 2004 8:09 pm
Thanks Seiichi.I wonder how off the nominal position this comet could be. Juan...