Dear colleagues, The following comets have not been observed recently. I mean, no total brightness have been reported. So the brightness is uncertain. C/2004...
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Mark Jaworsky
MarkianJ
Sep 4, 2005 6:49 pm
Dear Seiichi: Thanks for posting this request especially for B1 (LINEAR). Regarding that comet the IAUC Ephemeride does not list a total integrated magnitude...
8676
vitalinevski
Sep 4, 2005 7:13 pm
Dear colleagues! Comet C/2005P3 (SWAN) for the last some days has quickly lowered brightness. Below I bring the estimations of brightness executed by me on 300...
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Jose Carvajal
jcarvajal_ma...
Sep 4, 2005 9:19 pm
Hi Seichi. I got 9P yesterday night (see below) as a very diffuse and difficult object despite of its relatively brightness and diameter. Regards. Jose. ...
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David Higgins
higginsdj
Sep 5, 2005 4:44 am
My recent observations using Wafrho indicate that 9P is between magnitude 12.1Rc (total) and 14.0Rc (Nucleus). Cheers David Higgins E14 Canberra, Australia ...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Sep 5, 2005 4:27 pm
Dear colleagues, ... The event time shifts by about 1 day based on the improved orbital elements. 2005 Sept.23 9h UT 0.030 deg ( 1.8 arcmin) C/2005 P3 (...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Sep 5, 2005 4:27 pm
Dear colleagues, I found a bug in my script on searching rendezvous between comets and planets since 2002 September. I have missed the following interesting...
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Reiner M. Stoss
rms1kpde
Sep 5, 2005 6:42 pm
Dear minor planet observers, with the purpose of continuing the line drawn by the three MACE meetings in the years between 2002 und 2004, we have the pleasure...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Sep 5, 2005 8:33 pm
Dear colleagues, Thank you for observations of 9P. Today I updated my light curves and information of comets in my web pages. Best regards, -- Seiichi Yoshida ...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Sep 8, 2005 5:27 am
Hi all, now available as a pre-print is a paper by Sebastian F. Hoenig (accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics) in which he sucessfully links...
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Seiichi Yoshida
seiichi_yosh...
Sep 9, 2005 1:44 pm
Dear Vitali Nevski, ... (snip) ... I observed several comets visually last night. Comet C/2005 P3 was very bright, 10.9 mag still now. Please see "Seiichi...
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V. Nevski
vitalinevski
Sep 9, 2005 8:27 pm
Dear Seiichi Yoshida, Observations miss. I observed this comet on September, 7 and informed on it in Comets-Obs the comet is visible hardly at height of 17...
Hello, Comet 29P is still unpredictable : it was very faint (tiny inner coma surrounded by a very faint outer coma, m1 near 16 ?) one week ago (same aspect on...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Sep 10, 2005 11:03 am
Dear list, persuaded by the large surveys comet hunters have to find niches where the competition is not so hard. Has anybody tried to hunt systematically in...
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KCStarguy@...
kcstarguy2001
Sep 10, 2005 2:42 pm
When observations are made or posted, it would help me and others to know what latitude you are at or the city :) Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@...), ...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Sep 10, 2005 3:19 pm
Dear list, Michael Jaeger reports together with Gerald Rhemann that he has detected comet 169P/NEAT at low solar elongation as bright as 11 - 12 mag, with a 2...
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Rodney Austin
rodcomet
Sep 10, 2005 9:48 pm
Howdy Maik, If I remember correctly Tanaka used to specialise in moonlight hunting and got two, so it is possible to be successful. Personally I tend to avoid...
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V. Nevski
vitalinevski
Sep 11, 2005 6:12 am
Dear colleagues! Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann really in a stage outburst. The comet was observed visually in 300mm Newton: 2005 Sep. 10.86 (UT): m1=13.2,...
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Terry Lovejoy
terryjlovejoy
Sep 11, 2005 6:58 am
Maik, Unfortunately the large surveys do not stop during bright moonlight. Just adding to what Rod said there are still opportunities to be had, i.e: 1....
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Terry Lovejoy
terryjlovejoy
Sep 11, 2005 7:12 am
I just note that MPEC 2005-R50 has just been released giving an elliptical orbit for C/2005P3 http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K05/K05R50.html This...
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DonM353259@...
donmachholz
Sep 11, 2005 3:11 pm
Greetings Maik and others; Good idea. I began experimenting visual comet hunting in moonlight in the late 1970's and had a program in place by the early...
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Esteban Reina Lorenz
obs232masquefa
Sep 11, 2005 3:20 pm
Dear all. Do you know, the 79A001 NEOCP objet? It seem clearly a comet, I have observed it the last night. You can see...
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Stefan Beck
stefan_beck_xyz
Sep 11, 2005 3:51 pm
... Hi list, I took a images of 29P after the outburst. Have a look at http://www.cometchaser.de/comets/29P.html. -- Regards, Stefan Beck ...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Sep 12, 2005 6:51 am
Dear Terry, Rod, and Don, thank you very much for these competent answers. Of course there are mnany niches where amateur comet hunter can search more...
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filip fratev
kometata088
Sep 13, 2005 3:11 am
Hi,list Can some body provide me information/explanation about this observation listed by MPC: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/LastCometObs.html P/2005 R3...
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Stéphane Garro
stephane_garro
Sep 13, 2005 3:31 am
... Your observation was a recovery, as the comet made on sept 3 its first perihelion passage since its discovery par T.Spahr in 1998 : as such, it was given a...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Sep 13, 2005 5:23 am
Hi all, ... IAUC 8599 reports that Filip recovered this comet almost simultaneously with E. J. Christensen (Catalina) - both observed 0.4 days apart. The...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Sep 14, 2005 4:42 am
Hi all, ... IAUC 8600 confirms this: Alan Hale observed the comet visually at 11m5 and a diameter of 1'5, slightly condensed. Cheers, Maik -- If they give you...
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Juan José Gonzá...
jjgsgp
Sep 14, 2005 7:07 am
Maik, In my recent estimate, 169P/NEAT is clearly brighter : 2005 Sep. 14.19 UT: m1=10.3, Dia.=3', DC=2/, 20 cm SCT (100x), ( Alto del Castro - Aralla, alt....
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Sep 16, 2005 2:41 pm
Dear list, I have uploaded new analyses of current comets to the homepage of the German Comet Section. You can access them directly - as always - at ...
