I am here to describe a new location, at a forest temple-ashram where I had stayed for 2 whole weeks for Navratri-2009 celebrations. The location is a village...
A nice image of medium bright (8th mag) comet 88/P Howell passing close to Antares and M4 globular in Scorpius. Image taken by Rob Kaufman on 6 October. Canon...
This is really Amazing !!!! Surprised how far the Comet is from Sun ??? Regards Sameer ... -- Sameer [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Hi Sameer, Cartes says it to be 3.0 AU from us, and a staggering 3.9 AU from Sun! It's at a solar elongation of 150-degrees away in Pegasus. It's perihelion...
Hi , I merely re processed my california nebula pic since it is totally clouded pls take a look http://tinyurl.com/yktots5 Suresh Mohan Orion atlas mount Orion...
Very interesting. Please read through the entire thread, from the Minor Planet Mailing List. My sincere congrats to Richard! And all those hard-working...
Hello All, This is to announce about the news just in. 217/P LINEAR, which was gradually receding in brightness at 10th magnitude in Monoceros, has just...
RE-POSTING IN THE CLEAN FORMAT: Hello All, This is to announce about the news just in. 217/P LINEAR, which was gradually receding in brightness at 10th...
... Hello All, This should have come in much earlier. After a very, very slow wriggle ahead, finally the 25-cometary mark just crossed! But I'd be happier to...
Hello All, A great session coming in after a very long time. And this is one of my best written reports! A VERY detailed blog is complied below. The first part...
Hey Amar, Felt truly happy after reading your blog! It almost sound magical....because when we spoke on 16th evening, it looked like there aren't any ...
Hey Bala, indeed so nice to be hearing from you here on MU, atleast from someone. Glad you liked it, and yes thats what I wanted to stress, how things work at...
Hi Amar, It is good that you finaaly found Christiensen. Remember what kind of a fate it's finder chart would have ended up in when you tried to find the comet...
hi, The Cassini Scientist for a Day's India edition was kicked off recently. Students studying in a school in India and in classes V and XII are encouraged to...
Sriram, I have mentioned in the blog, apart from many times earlier in reports. But you have seemed to have missed out that. Christensen is an old pal, one...
Last night the two of us decided to go to Ramancherry ,Vijay was very busy with his schedule and could not join us, I must first say thanks to Amar for ...
Doc, there you go...simply stupendous! I'm getting to see this by you after such a loooong wait. This is one of your next best feather in the caps. If you...
Two handsome chaps standing alongside each other - http://members.bas.org.in/kstar/me_scope.png Akarsh Simha with his 17.5" f/5 Discovery split tube Dobsonian....
Hello All, Cartes du Ciel is a software which many of us use. I use it extensively, for printing very detailed DSO charts and updating latest comet positions....
Dear Friends, Last weekend My friend Vijay Kumar, went to give a talk on astronomy and also a session with the stars with scope at Ramakrishna Mutt school at ...
... Hello Cometeers, The webpage of Alan Hale "Countdown to 500 Comets" is updated, with my count to 17 comets; with 3 new observations - C/2008 Q3 Garradd in...
Hi Folks, This is the other pic I took from the same lt polluted skies , though this is all the data I could extract without making it very noisy here is ...
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