I just wonder have anyone read these two books and care to comment on them? Thanks. 1. Fundamentals of Astrometry by Jean Kovalevsky, P. Kenneth Seidelmann 2....
COMET P/2005 L3 (McNAUGHT) R. H. McNaught has reported his discovery of a comet... Is this some kind of a record for comet discoveries in a period of time? ...
ROY TUCKER
gpobs@...
Jun 5, 2005 6:25 pm
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Thanks Roy, Actually I've just got one hour of dark sky left! Gordon takes over tomorrow and for thenext week and hopefully he'll get in on the act. However,...
Robert McNaught
rmn@...
Jun 5, 2005 6:41 pm
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Hi, ... At least for a human being. ;) LINEAR: 7 comets in 20 days (C/2002 A1 - A3, AR2, B1 - B3) 9 comets in 14 days (C/1999 J3 - J5, K3 - K8) and not...
And somehow, the attached name "MCNAUGHT" to a comet has a better more user-friendly name than the machines of LINEAR and SOHO... My congratulations to Rob for...
Before I head off to bed, I should add that making discoveries is made easy when you use a nice bunch of telescope control and detection software written by...
Robert McNaught
rmn@...
Jun 5, 2005 9:03 pm
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On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 04:41:25 +1000 (EST) Robert McNaught ... A side effect of the current dry spell? -- Michael Smith | 61 394 257 560 Senior...
Michael Smith
michael.smith@...
Jun 6, 2005 5:35 am
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... I don't know enough about climatology, but there is a close association between cirrus cloud and good seeing. There were some extensive regions of cirrus...
Robert McNaught
rmn@...
Jun 6, 2005 6:19 am
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Hi Jenifer, ... you are right, my wording was not very fair. But there is at least a small difference between a streak of LINEAR comet discoveries and Rob's...
... I have been lecturing for years (mostly on MPML rather than in refereed publications) that back "in the beginning", Jupiter and the other giant planets...
Awwww.... come on folks! "At least for a human being..."?!?! While I usually let the little LINEAR-bashing comments slide, I have to defend the observers on...
Evans, Jenifer B.
jenifer@...
Jun 7, 2005 12:32 am
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I have a 1K x 1k Back illuminated CCD QE is 80-90 across the visual spectrum. It a FLI IMG 1024. Asking 5500. US. I hope this not an intrusion on to your email...
Today's DOU included new elements for Pluto. Partly from curiosity I queried the MPES for the current ephemeris including the residual block to see what site...
Hello, Speaking about Pluto, does anyone in this list is preparing to observe the Caronte occultation, that will be on July 11th ? If so, please contact me in...
Sorry folks, Where you read Caronte (this is in portuguese) , please read Charon. Regards, Cristovao ... ____________________________________________________ ...
... The residual block *should* contain the latest observations. The procedure that files the new orbit for publication should also file the residual block for...
... It's real. In their 1980 paper, "Ephemeris of Pluto," P. K. Seidelmann et al. say: "The gap in the observational data around 1960 is due to the lack of any...
... doesn't ... at ... observations ... say: "The gap in the observational data around 1960 is due to the lack of any organized observing program." This is...
... Interesting (and encouraging)! I don't know much about the politics involved and don't mean to offend anyone, but it is nice that the MPC is becoming more...
I've been having a closer look at some of the data on the P.E.Tr.A. pages with regards to dynamical families. Taking the largest of their cut values for each...
Dolores Beasley Headquarters, Washington June 9, 2005 (Phone: 202/358-1753/1237) D.C. Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL),...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jun 9, 2005 5:37 pm
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We are on the prowl for a Prontor 100mm shutter. These don't seem to be made any longer, so we're hoping a new/used replacement might be hiding somewhere....
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Jun 9, 2005 8:46 pm
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We have a professor here at LPL who is moving offices and disposing of lots of things. Among them are Russian Asteroid Ephemerides going back to 1957 (or...
Hi folks, I've computed and posted TLEs ("two-line elements") for six slow-moving, high-altitude artificial satellites of the sort that get confused with...
http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12708.html Caltech News Release For Immediate Release June 9, 2005 Palomar Observatory to Hold Open House June 25 ...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jun 10, 2005 8:22 pm
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Magnitude estimated very roughly at V=20.9. Dave Healy 701 JBO COD 701 CON D. Healy, 6929 E. Madera Drive, Sierra Vista AZ 85650 CON [healydave@...] ...
