Yet another reason to get light-curves at different oppositions: you may get lucky and spot a satellite that didn't transit/eclipse at the other oppositions....
Of course, for the really "good oil" on the why-for and how-to of light curves, come to the Australian Minor Planet Workshop where Alan Harris, Col Bembrick...
MACE 2003 - MEETING ON ASTEROIDS AND COMETS IN EUROPE May 1-4 Costitx, Mallorca island, (Spain) -Second Announcement and Call for Papers- ... The "Meeting...
Hi all! This is a bit of the subject at the moment but i was wondering if anyone could tell me if there is a technigue of working out the sky regions that are...
carmel mckenna
martinastro@...
Mar 3, 2003 5:48 pm
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... No sweat (well, not very much) if you set up the problem using Cartesian coordinates and vector-matrix operations instead of spherical trig. If the sun is...
Bill Owen
wmo@...
Mar 3, 2003 6:58 pm
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http://www.cnn.com//POLL/results/366631.html CNN Poll February 28, 2003 If astronomers detect a planet-killing asteroid right before it hits Earth, do you want...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Mar 3, 2003 7:36 pm
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"So many rocks, so little time, too small a telescope" the astrometrist's laments ;-)...
... "So many rocks, so little time, too small a telescope" the astrometrist's laments ;-) ... This from a man with a 16" computer-controlled telescope and...
... This from a man with a 20" telescope and a large format megapixel camera ;-) <<<< Details. Details. Too, both of which have been sitting under a cloud/snow...
Sometimes I think we amateurs talk ourselves out of doing things that are worth doing. I had pretty much given up on working with NEOs because of the ...
Bill certainly gave an exact relation B-) ...but considering that in comet-hunting the name of the game will be sky coverage, it's eas easy enough simply to...
Brian Skiff
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Mar 3, 2003 11:31 pm
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Hi, I'm putting together a collection of images for a series of astronomy talks I'll be giving this year. One concept I'd like to discuss is AO and to that...
Patrick Wiggins
paw@...
Mar 4, 2003 7:39 am
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... for an ... scope. To my ... I can ... With software capable of track&stack (like Astrometrica) it doesn't matter how fast the NEO is... you get the same...
... and as well as aperture and CCD sensitivity, the limits then also include: - the CCD's FOV combined with the NEO's speed (how long it takes the object to...
... Yes, Peter, I fully agree. I didn't want to go yet into details but OK... In the NK0154 case we took long series of 5sec exposures and stacked 8 frames for...
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique Paris, France Researcher contact: Patrick Michel Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur e-mail: michel@... Tel:...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Mar 4, 2003 5:31 pm
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Looking at the April 2003 Sky and Telescope I noticed that two naked eye comets, LINEAR (C/2002 T7) and NEAT(2001 Q4) will be in the April sky. Best views will...
IAU Circular 8087 reports on the discovery of seven new satellites of Jupiter. They were discovered by the team at Mauna Kea using the 8.3-m Subaru telescope,...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Mar 4, 2003 10:29 pm
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Try Google Images, search for the phrase "adaptive optics" you'll get lots of hits. Also try the Starfire web page, http://www.de.afrl.af.mil/SOR/ Basil Rowe ...
Basil Rowe
basil.rowe@...
Mar 5, 2003 2:33 pm
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q4 is supposed to be bright. Won't we be able to see it in the Northern hemis? Dr.Eric Flescher ** Message: 14 Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 12:44:02 -0600 From: Bob...
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~sheppard/satellites/jup2003.html New Satellites of Jupiter Discovered in 2003 University of Hawaii A work in progress: Most recent...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Mar 5, 2003 5:47 pm
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... Doubtful. It has a similar RA as the Sun (~45 minutes behind). From QHO (+28d) it sets before the Sun while at Siding Spring Q4 will be 28d above the...
Roberto Haver and Andrea Pelloni, as SpaceGuard RHP Team, have received from Prof. Steven Pravdo, Principal Investigator of the SkyMorph team, a request for...
Hi Andrea: I've just sent Steven a list of my 266 measurements from the SkyMorph database, including a number of TNO measurements. Andrew "Roberto Haver and...
... All published measures from NEAT frames are in the monthly batches of MPCs, so it should be no problem to go through the last 2-3 years and copy/scan the ...
Has anyone on this list observed, or tried to observe, an asteroid occultation with a ccd camera? Please reply off-list. I'm looking for material for the...
This page shows the stereoscopic view quite nicely: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03380 I don't have 3-D glasses, but some acetate color filters...