... Why bother? It wouldn't be more than a couple degrees, unless you were really looking down near the horizon right when it was closest! :-) ...
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John Mahony
jmmahony
Dec 7, 2003 10:34 am
... ?? At 8 UT, it should have been moving at only about 48"/minute. ... 17.6 in ... mag. 16.7 ... Recent estimates from MPES are about 0.7 mag fainter than...
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John Mahony
jmmahony
Dec 7, 2003 10:58 am
Oops, ignore all that. My email has been running extremely late for the last 24 hours, so I assumed the wrong date for your attempt. Since you have 70 images,...
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John Rogers
j_rogers@...
Dec 7, 2003 7:08 pm
... I successfully imaged both 2003 XJ7 and 2003 XV from Camarillo (http://www.CamarilloObservatory.com). They were both easily visible using 10 second...
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P. Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Dec 7, 2003 7:15 pm
Arrgh...that is EXACTLY what the problem was; I just took that into account and this is precisely the offset. Thanks....it does not pay to trust nor hurry up....
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Richard Kowalski
mpmlowner
Dec 8, 2003 8:08 am
Forwarded from David Dunham ... From: "David Dunham" <dunham@...> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 1:42 AM Subject: Re: 1258 Sicilia occ'n in Calif., Dec....
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Richard Kowalski
mpmlowner
Dec 8, 2003 8:10 am
... From: David Dunham Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 3:25 PM Subject: Slow occultation by faint asteroid in February First, don't bother with 1258 Sicilia -...
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Frank Schiralli, Jr.
astroimager1...
Dec 8, 2003 1:54 pm
Hi, all: Been lurking here for some time, and although I'm convinced this topic MUST have been discussed ad nauseum, I turned up little in my search of the...
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Greg Crawford
southern_obs
Dec 8, 2003 3:02 pm
Frank, There are probably a few different answers to your question, but here's one: In addition to the web services of the MPC, there are the web services of...
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Lawrence
ldjhandm
Dec 8, 2003 4:25 pm
I have been able to do astrometry on enough asteroids to decide to do some 'serious' stuff now, and I would like to know whether there is some way to determine...
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Richard Kowalski
mpmlowner
Dec 8, 2003 4:38 pm
Lawrence, the best place to go for a beginning asteroid photometrist is Brian Warner's CALL site http://www.minorplanetobserver.com/astlc/default.htm Look...
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Brian Warner
brianw_mpo
Dec 8, 2003 4:47 pm
Lawrence, Go to the CALL site (listed below). There you'll find a list of known lightcurve parameters. This will allow you to pick an asteroid with a...
11140
Bob Elliott
stargazer54742
Dec 9, 2003 2:29 am
... Snip> ... Snip ... A few suggestions: look at the following URL; http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/index.html There is a list of Comets in a...
11141
rstoss@...
rms1kpde
Dec 9, 2003 2:40 am
... I don't know where you have this information from, but most recent comets are over-observed and this by observers all over the world. See the three most...
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Tony Beresford
dberesford@...
Dec 9, 2003 11:18 am
In latest DOU , a new site D85 reports some observations. I find its only 40 Kms from me. If the owner of that MPC code is a list member would he contact me...
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Bob Elliott
stargazer54742
Dec 9, 2003 8:00 pm
... Thanks Reiner for the ICQ website statement. I hadn't seen that. It looks like most observers are abiding by the recommendations in that ICQ statement....
11144
sfhoenig@...
sfhoenig
Dec 9, 2003 8:28 pm
... I would say that this weekly batch is not representative . Since one of not many people having delt with particularily every astrometric comet observation...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Dec 9, 2003 9:43 pm
... This will also be a main topic at next years International Workshop on Cometary Astronomy (IWCA) - http://www2.iap.fr/saf/IWCAIII/ Cheers, Maik -- If they...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Dec 10, 2003 4:20 pm
Press Office Royal Holloway College University of London Egham, Surrey, U.K. For further information contact: Christine Long, Press & PR Officer 01784 443967...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Dec 10, 2003 4:53 pm
Office of News Services University of Colorado-Boulder Boulder, Colorado Contact: Larry Esposito, (303) 492-5990, Esposito@... Joshua Colwell,...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Dec 10, 2003 5:45 pm
MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES December 4-10, 2003 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now...
11149
mclark@...
Dec 10, 2003 5:49 pm
Quoting Ron Baalke <baalke@...>: <snip> ... Two comments on this last paragraph. Wasn't the "F" ring of Saturn discovered using the Pioneer 11...
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Michel Festou
festou@...
Dec 10, 2003 6:37 pm
Maurice>Two comments on this last paragraph. Wasn't the "F" ring of Saturn discovered using the Pioneer 11 spacecraft? And wasn't Voyager 2 launched in July...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Dec 10, 2003 11:57 pm
... Correct. You may be interested in this write-up I did on Saturn's rings: Ron Baalke ... http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/saturn/back.html Historical Background of...
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melowitz2000
Dec 12, 2003 7:21 pm
Is the "Flora" family of asteroids (i<11 degrees) considered to be separate from the Main Belt (I, II, III zones)? If so, what are the key fundamental...
11153
matthias.busch@...
asteroid7687
Dec 12, 2003 8:31 pm
... The difference is a. 2.1 < a < 2.3 Flora 2.3 < a < 2.5 Main Belt I 2.5 < a < 2.82 Main Belt II 2.82 < a < 3.03 Main Belt II See Bill Gray's Minor...
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Patrick Wiggins
pd210pd
Dec 13, 2003 6:51 am
Could someone please confirm (or correct me) that TheSky level 4 version 5 does not support UCAC-2 but that the much anticipated version 6 will? Thanks, ...
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David S. Dixon
dixon_lascruce
Dec 13, 2003 3:00 pm
Frank: Sorry to reply to your inquiry so late but I just finished 2 weeks of travel for my day job and am finally catching up on email. You received several...
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Valentino Pozzoli
vpozzoli
Dec 14, 2003 7:44 pm
Dear Patrick, The Sky version 5 cerainly dos not support UCAC, Software Bisque claims that version 6 will have UCAC support but experience has shown that they...
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Herbert Raab
herbraab
Dec 15, 2003 5:27 pm
Hello List! I am looking for an Optec MAXfield 0.33X telecompressor. (The original model that will also fit 2" focusers, not the Next Generation Model that...
