Dear Mr Crinklaw I am writing this to both the comets-ml and your group. I was one of the people who originally wrote to the moderator of comets-ml suggesting...
Thanks very much Mike; I, like so many others who were routinely submitting observations have other routes. It is a shame that there cannot be some degree of...
Hi All, Many years back, I recall getting a bit miffed about a comment by John Mood in 'Astronomy', where he referred to some comet-hunters having the...
Dear list members! I am currently on business travel and have neither time nor bandwidth to deal with the presented discussion in an extended way. However, I...
First, let me say that this is one of the most difficult emails--and one of the most difficult days--I've had in a long time. I'm so upset that it is hard to...
It has been suggested that the number of comet observations being submitted has been dropping. I had a look into this, checking CometObs, the ICQ page, and...
I am finding it equally difficult to point out that as of this afternoon the Arkansas Sky Observatory (ASO) http://www.arksky.org/ site was HACKED by an...
Greg, I must admit that I have not been submitting so many observations recently and I think this boils down to the following reasons: 1) Temporary loss of...
Hi All, Last night I found 29P as fairly bright, small, condensed object (m1~12.5, Dia~0.4', DC=7) while to nights ago it was huge and extremely diffuse, just...
Hi Stephen, ... That's interesting. Thanks for being candid. Maybe we can do something about this. The reason observations aren't sent to comets-ml is that ...
I just wish grown adults would act like them, instead of all this back
biting, poinger pointed and blame assigning. I'm just tired of reading
emails on the...
I believe that Maik has asked privately for this type of conversation to end. Maik? Clay ... Dr. P. Clay Sherrod Arkansas Sky Observatories Harvard MPC H41...
... What, we can't talk about comet observations now? That would be crazy. What he wants is for the personal attacks to stop and I couldn't agree with him...
Dear list, this will be my last message on this topic. Can you imagine how I hate to write such e-mails? I spent this day (and tomorrow, too) in a meeting of...
Hi Stephen Don't feel inadequate that you don't have any electronic equipment and that you are "still" a visual observer. Nonsense, my friend...I am "still"| a...
Confirmed, Dr Sherrod It would seem that we are obeying Maik's decision, and have just let it go, but someone else won't let go of the bone! Actually, I would...
... hear, hear!! well said Greg, I find it absolutely ridiculous that this is the case! whats the big deal with this publication, is it marked official spy...
Hmm, seems I been here lurking for awhile to now. I hope you all figure this out and get fixed so we can get back to what is important the comets. We all are...
Dear list, over the last days recent astrometry seemed to indicate that comet 2005 T4 might be of intermediate period. This has now been confirmed. MPEC...
Hello astrometrists, does anyone have an explenation why three independant stations measure wrong positions in nearly the same order on different dates? One...
Hi Bernd, ... the observations by 413 and G96 are consistent, but not the others. I know that the comet was only a trail without a head and diffcult to measure...
... Hello Mike and all, what I can say on my side, is that we really *need* the contribution of visual observers. Currently there is a huge difference between...
Hi All. Well, a couple of reasons for me: 1) A few bright comets visible right now. We had good ones months ago 9P, C/2004 Q2, C/2005 K2,... which made a lot...
Hi All, Can anyone point me to a paper, webpage etc that discusses the effect of a person's colour blindness on estimations of total visual magnitudes of ...
Dear list, I have checked all likely X/ comets for possible identity with P/2005 T4. The search gave one positive result and two close matches. X/1813 D1 was...
Posted on behalf of Nicolas Lefaudeux: hi, I am not a member of the group but as an astronomer interested in comets (but not especially fond of them, I prefer...
... effect ... of ... Thats the very likely answer. Color vision and low light vision involve different vision cells and different photoreceptors. A mutation...
... (m1~12.5, Dia~0.4', DC=7) while to nights ago it was huge and extremely diffuse, just at the limit of visibility (m1~13.0, Dia~2', DC=0) under excellent...
