Dear list, minor planet (4730) has been named after Xing-ming. (4730) Xingmingzhou (=1980 XZ) discovered at the Purple Mountain Obs. in China. Cheers, Maik -- ...
Hi all, C/2004 R2 (ASAS) has entered C3 on 2004 Oct. 05 at 10:21 UT. It looks brighter than C/2003 K4 (LINEAR) and displays a short tail. It will be...
It looks good to me. Congrats, Rainer! The data around that time is real gappy, so I'm am going to hold off for a few days before doing astrometry on the...
Hi all, ... oh well, I was searching the last weeks more thoroughly to find number 50 ;) and now, while I was on business travel... Murphy's Law. Anyway, it...
Au contraire! Granted, maybe SOHO won't find Meyer number #100, but I don't think that we will ever be without at least one space-based solar observatory, and...
Karl, ... now I have to think about how to introduce my wife to this new and regular expenditure... ;) Cheers, Maik -- If they give you ruled paper, write the...
All, Congrats to Heiner! Great find. I can trace it back well to 15:42Z and it stays on the 243 column consistently...which makes me a bit leary...as if it...
Hi all, I am happy to announce the winner of the Meyer-50 competition for the discovery of the 50th comet of the Meyer group. The winne of three bottles of...
Hi all, ... Thanks a lot Greg and all who wrote emails! I just tried to trace back this object. These are my mesurements: 2004.10.16 14:18 243 189 2004.10.16...
Hi all, the comet has become quite faint in the latest images so that my hope of being possible observed from the ground have been destroyed. However, given...
The object I am reporting is not the main comet first reported by Xavier at 12:27:49 (though mistakenly confirmed for Hua Su by Michal Kusiak), but is just to...
Hello all, I am going to make a couple of minor changes (enhancements, of course!) to the comet report form. First, I am going to add an option "Potential...
Hi all, I think this is a very bright Marsden group comet. Nice find! Cheers, Maik -- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. * Juan Ramon Jimenez ...
Hi all, this morning (Nov 9) Heiner's bright Marsden is nicely visible in C3 now making its turn backwards to the Sun again. Cheers, Maik -- If they give you...
Hi, I am at the beginners level of SOHO comet hunting. Today I havent been able to get any C3 images later than 2004/11/10 22:18. Is it normal for this to...
Steve, ... welcome aboard. ... Yes, it is. The delayed images will be posted later. ... There was formerly a German mirror for the 1024x1024 images but this...
I have updated my ranked list of comet discoverers at: http://astro.planetjd.com/Lists/ALLTime.html Please send any corrections to: jim{at}planetJD.com Happy...
... Jim, I'm surprised to see Bradfield languishing all the way down there in 18th spot. He better lift his game! Perhaps you should weight ground based...
Vello, ... this is why I tell all the media who approach me now and then for an interview that I do not regard myself as a comet hunter or discoverer. It is...
... It's different, but I wouldn't belittle the effort. I'm sure there is plenty of hard work involved in each discovery and of course each one is keenly...
Hello Vello, 2 cents on this from a guy who does and succeeded in both fields... :) From a personal experience SOHO comet hunting is nothing compared to real...
Hi all, I'm going to replicate my post from the sungrazer site and add a little more at the end: ========================== In a few hours (2pm-ish EST) we are...
Hi, Vello— I think you caught both sides of the issue well. On one hand, SOHO and night-sky comet hunting are not really comparable in any meaningful sense;...
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