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...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Aug 2, 2005 8:07 am
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...
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myhandle2001
Aug 2, 2005 12:36 pm
... Seiichi: What puzzels me is that the "best time" is the same for so many comets. How can this be ? Rich in Blue Ridge....
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Bernd Brinkmann
b48doher
Aug 2, 2005 1:57 pm
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...
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myhandle2001
Aug 2, 2005 3:06 pm
... 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...
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Terry Lovejoy
terryjlovejoy
Aug 2, 2005 8:02 pm
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...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Aug 3, 2005 11:46 am
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...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Aug 6, 2005 10:23 am
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...
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Michael Mattiazzo
cometmanau
Aug 7, 2005 6:19 am
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 ...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Aug 8, 2005 5:29 pm
Dear colleagues, P/2005 K3 ( McNaught ) is visible visually at 14 mag, much brighter than reported in M.P.E.C.s. Date Mag. Telescope Dia. DC...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Aug 8, 2005 5:36 pm
Dear Michael Mattiazzo, ... Thank you very much for your informative negative report. I updated the light curve: ...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Aug 8, 2005 5:43 pm
Dear colleagues, Anybody observed 10P/Tempel 2 recently? Although it is already high enough to observe, no observations have been reported in recent MPECS....
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iferrinv
Aug 8, 2005 6:53 pm
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...
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Gary Kronk
gary_kronk
Aug 9, 2005 12:30 pm
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...
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Terry Lovejoy
terryjlovejoy
Aug 9, 2005 1:12 pm
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...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Aug 9, 2005 1:30 pm
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 ...
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Gary Kronk
gary_kronk
Aug 9, 2005 1:35 pm
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...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Aug 9, 2005 1:40 pm
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...
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"Sebastian F. H€...
sfhoenig
Aug 9, 2005 1:40 pm
... 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...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Aug 9, 2005 3:43 pm
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...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Aug 9, 2005 4:25 pm
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 ...
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"Sebastian F. H€...
sfhoenig
Aug 9, 2005 6:17 pm
... 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...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Aug 9, 2005 6:36 pm
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...
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Mike Kretlow
mk9938
Aug 9, 2005 7:11 pm
... 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...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Aug 9, 2005 7:32 pm
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 ...
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Mike Kretlow
mk9938
Aug 9, 2005 7:54 pm
... rms ... 5.5+) ... 1.9+ ... 3.6+ ... 3.0+ ... 3.9+ ... 4.0+ ... .22- ... 1.1+ ... 1.6+) ... time ... the ... I would first reject all (bad-fitting)...
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"Sebastian F. H€...
sfhoenig
Aug 9, 2005 8:56 pm
Mike, ... These are very good points and also support my bad feelings about this ... Gary, finally you got your discussion :) Sebastian -- ... Sebastian F....
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Mike Kretlow
mk9938
Aug 9, 2005 10:23 pm
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 ...
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Mike Kretlow
mk9938
Aug 10, 2005 12:27 am
... 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...
