Dear colleagues, I updated the light curves of two remarkable periodic comets, 141P and 9P. Michael Jager succeeded to observe 141P as around 12.0 mag. It is ...
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gvnn64
Mar 1, 2005 11:20 pm
... mag. ... bit ... Dear Seiichi, thanks for your update. I'm waiting with interest the first visual estimations of 9P/Tempel: up to now the photometry on...
9P/Tempel: 2005 Mar. 1.99 UT: m1=13.3, Dia.=0.6', DC=4, 20 cm SCT (100x). C/2003 K4 (LINEAR): 2005 Mar. 1.85 UT: m1=9.4, Dia.=4', DC=3, 25x100B. C/2004 Q2...
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gvnn64
Mar 2, 2005 10:56 am
... Hola J.J. so finally you get it: congratulations! I have seen that also another Spanish amateur has seen comet 9P/Tempel almost simultaneously with you,...
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comets-ml@yahoogroups...
Mar 2, 2005 9:52 pm
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 : /Remanzacco...
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Michael Mattiazzo
cometmanau
Mar 3, 2005 9:53 am
Hello all, Did anyone else notice the particularly strong non-gravitational parameters published in the latest MPEC for comet 2004 T4 LINEAR? ...
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reinder j bouma
reinder_bouma
Mar 3, 2005 10:45 am
... Hi Michael and all, Nakano published an orbit several days ago [NK 1169], also with pretty large non-gravitational parameters, using a different model...
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Mike Kretlow
mk9938
Mar 3, 2005 11:03 am
... Hello Michael! The non-gravitational accelerations (a_i) are expressed as : a_i = A_i * g(r) * e_i where A_i are the parameters A1,A2,A3 and e_i are unit...
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microplanet333
Mar 4, 2005 11:59 pm
Would anyone care to estimate, very roughly speaking, how much time it would take a comet to travel from the Oort cloud to the inner solar system? Thanks. Bill...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Mar 5, 2005 10:26 am
Dear colleagues, 21P/Giacobini-Zinner is already in the morning sky, and it must be already bright as 15 mag. However, nobody succeeded to observe it since...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Mar 5, 2005 3:13 pm
Dear colleagues, The following comets are waiting for the first observation now. 141P/Machholz 2 was observed by Michael Jager on Feb. 27 at 12.0 mag, but not...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Mar 5, 2005 10:42 pm
Dear colleagues, My "Weekly Information about Bright Comets" page: http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html was renewed. I had written only "one-line"...
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Don Pearce
bigdp12000
Mar 6, 2005 7:52 am
The time of that trip, of course, would depend on where in the outer (classical) Oort cloud the comet began its inward plunge. If your looking for an average,...
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Susan Olason
oleduke@...
Mar 8, 2005 5:36 am
Seiichi, Thank you for your weekly information on bright comets. It is one of the few places where one can find good information on all current and near term...
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filip fratev
kometata088
Mar 8, 2005 7:59 am
Dear colleagues, 105P was observed at 18.8 last night. 21P was 16.1m. This is unfiltered assessments. I want to inform you that my further assessment (MPC...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Mar 8, 2005 8:13 am
Dear Filip, ... sure, you can upload images to the images or files section of the group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/comets-ml Attachment are not allowed. ...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Mar 9, 2005 10:21 am
Dear colleagues, The actual position of 141P/Machholz 2 is off from the predicted position. Based on the observations by Michael Jager, the perihelion date of ...
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Akimasa Nakamura
a-nakamu@...
Mar 9, 2005 12:41 pm
Dear Seiichi and all, It looks like to me that Michael observed fragment 'A', not 'D'. MPC 45656 gives the orbital elements of 'D', but the T you mentioned is...
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reinder j bouma
reinder_bouma
Mar 9, 2005 12:41 pm
... Dear Seiichi, I find that Michael Jaeger's images are slightly better fitted with T = 2005-02-28.246 UT. This gives a current position that differs from...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Mar 9, 2005 4:36 pm
Hi all, ... I have measured Michaels first image with Astrometrica and sent it to the CBAT. The resulting correction in perihelion time was +0.5 day, exaclty...
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Christopher E. Collins
bucky_19812001
Mar 9, 2005 4:38 pm
I have a Galileo 800mm X 80mm reflector telescope with 16mm and 20mm eyepieces, it came with Galileo Trilogy software planetarium ver 1.8. I dont know what...
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m yuh
muyhan9861
Mar 10, 2005 5:28 am
hi... try this site http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/SoftwareComets.html they list 17 differant formats maybe one is what your...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Mar 10, 2005 6:34 am
Dear Akimasa and Reinder, Thank you for your information. ... Thank you. Well, I could confirm that I searched the correct position visually on Mar. 8,...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Mar 10, 2005 3:15 pm
Hi all, returning from a business travel from Berlin I found in my mailbox (snail mail) a preprint of a paper by Z. Sekanina and P. W. Chodas titled "Origin of...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Mar 10, 2005 3:24 pm
Dear Filip, ... Thank you. MPECs were issued after your post. Today I updated the light curves of them, and updated the information in my web pages. Best...
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cnj999
Mar 10, 2005 6:30 pm
... (snail mail) a ... Association ... Yes, a most interesting paper indeed! The study would appear to bring all the "sunskirting" comets (a new term coined by...
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Brian Cudnik
brian_cudnik
Mar 10, 2005 6:56 pm
I wanted to print out comparison charts for comets, available on http://www.shopplaza.nl/astro/. I opened up the image file successfully and am able to read it...
In usual conditions at height of 170m above sea level on 10 March the comet 141P/Machholz has not been found in 30-cm Newton at a limit on stars 12m. Zodiac...
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amar sharma
amar10sharmaa
Mar 14, 2005 12:41 pm
Hi Brian, My name's Amar and this is my first ever mail since I've joined. I too had the same problem when I downloaded the images and printed them. But the ...