Can any of you who use Seiichi Yoshida's website tell me what the "best time" in his current bright comets page is based on ? It appears to the left of the...
Hello, ... Thank you for your looking my web site :-) The "Best Time" shows the local time when the comet locates highest through the night at latitude of N35...
Hello, ... see the answer above. Many comets are low in the western sky at the evening. So the best time to observe is when it's getting dark enough. And...
... Bernd: Thank you for your reply. In Seiichi's reply, he mentioned "best time" as being local time. Is this the case, or is the "best time" expressed in...
This morning I managed to catch 21P and P/2005JQ5 only a degree apart in the sky. Unfortunately only 2 exposures were even remotely usuable due to cloud...
Dear colleagues, Today I released the new version of Comet for Windows. http://www.aerith.net/project/comet.html The following tutorial pages show you the...
C/2005 E2 (McNaught): 2005 Aug. 03.00 UT: m1=12.2, Dia.=0.8', DC=4, 20 cm SCT (133x). ( Alto del Castro - Aralla, alt. 1720 m, Leon, North Spain ). [ Mountain...
Dear list, I've received some images of the above comet by Michael Jaeger and Gerald Rhemann showing a faint 5' coma with a star-like central condensation and...
Hello all, On August 1st at 20:10UT, a CCD image taken at the expected location of C/2005 K2 LINEAR reveals no object brighter than 16th magnitude. This ...
Dear colleagues, Anybody observed 10P/Tempel 2 recently? Although it is already high enough to observe, no observations have been reported in recent MPECS....
Hello all: To illustrate a scientific paper, I need a scientific quality image of 9P/Tempel 1. Full credit will be given to the observer. Please write to me...
As many of you know, I am in the process of writing the Cometography series of books for Cambridge University Press. The series was at first intended as a...
Seiichi, I have images of the area on August 2.8 UT showing stars to mag 15.0 (slight cloud) but no trace of the comet yet. Given the conditions I would say...
Dear Gary, both comets are identical and yes, Barnard, made a mistake. I converted the 1905.0 coordinates into 2000.0 and changed the date (i.e. took the ...
Well, I guess the lively debate I was expecting is put to rest very quickly. Thanks, Maik! I will replace Mikhailov's orbit with the one you provided in your...
Dear Gary, ... yes, sure. However, I do not know if I have all observations Mikhailov had available... Anyway, even with excluding the worst observations a...
... Not so fast, please :) ... For sure this seems somehow convincing. On the other hand -- and it may be one of the reasons why it was not officially accepted...
Hi all, Sebastian wrote, ... yes, it also ocurred to me. What did convince me was the fact that the positions in Barnards original temporal order did show...
I wrote, ... of ... for 10 times read 100 times! Sorry for that typo. Maik -- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. * Juan Ramon Jimenez ...
... This is, however, a somewhat weak argumentation since it would occur to any trail in approximately the same direction everywhere in the sky... What I would...
Sebastian wrote, ... since this may be of interest for all I will present exactly this right now. It should be noted, however, that all this is skewed because...
... to ... But the details might be important. Unfortunately this issue/pages is/are not available via ADS in scanned form. Which photographic doublet did he...
Hi Mike, here the ADS link http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph- iarticle_query?journal=AN&year=1907&volume=174&page_ind=5&letter=.&type=SCREEN_GIF ...
Mike, ... These are very good points and also support my bad feelings about this ... Gary, finally you got your discussion :) Sebastian -- ... Sebastian F....
Beside the orbital calculations there are some other points which makes me wonder. Note: Maik has given COD 672 to both observations, but the Bruce telescopes ...
... GIF ... Thanx Maik, I have overseen this link. Just looked into the paper and...: 1. Barnard spent summer/spring at Mt.Wilson and obviously he brought the...