Gidday all, After my last noise call i'm a bit reluctant to post this. It is visible across the complete sequence. Open to opinions An interesting object...
... these positions. ... Alan, NEOChecker does not work with space observatories as observing sites, even if you entered appropriate observatory code. The...
Hallo Alan With a perihel time around feb 6 85 P is near this point. best regards Michael ... From: Alan Watson To: stereohunter@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
According to Alan's astrometry, I can assume that the comet is within few hundreths of AU from spacecraft (some 0.04 AU). It is probably a very close fly-by....
Dimitry, ... How did you find that? Alan's astrometry suggest the comet is moving more or less 2.5'/hour... This is pretty similar to what is expected for 85P...
Gidday All, The good news, it's still there. The better news is its turned a corner and is now heading south. The pixel value is getting higher. Could it be in...
... I tried to compute an orbit from Alan's 3 positions, but the result was wrong due to small observed arch. I computed an orbit for Earth as observing site...
... its ... It was probably too faint when it crossed LASCO C3. But HI1B should show it. With these elements: Ecliptic Osculating Elements (J2000.0) at JD...
Gidday Rainer and Dimitry, ... Your last Hi1a positions look good. I have loaded Rainer's orbit details into Starry night. It show the comet crossing STEREO...
All, In case you were concerned, I am not ignoring this object. This is a very hard target to follow through the images, so it took me a while to get as many...
I concur -- it's definitely there in HI1-B. This is very good news! Hopefully Brian can get a good orbit for it. I can follow it to near the end of the day...
Following up... I can certainly see it in HI1-B (pretty clearly actually), but my positions do not agree with Rainer's. I get the following: (0,0 upper-left) ...
Gidday Karl, Rainer et al, I agree with these positions, lost across stars after this. My Ypos = Karl's 1024-ypos, which is +/- a few pixels to close Rainer's...
Dear all, MPEC 2009-B10 was issued a short time ago confirming this object. Also included was Alan's HI1-B Kreutz from last year (SECCHI-007). Congrats again...
Gidday ALL, Unknown object in STEREO HI1a now has a name C/2009 A1 (STEREO) What great start to the IYA2009 for SOHO and STEREO comets hunters. Many thanks...
... Yes, certainly Karl has recovered the comet in HI1B. Congrats to Karl! Perhaps it will be possible now to recover it in earth-based images. Rainer...
Gidday Rainer et all, ... I see Mr. Michael Jaeger has joined this forum, he is most welcome here, as he is a prolific and talented comet imager. Many of the...
Dear Alan For me the comet is below the horizon - sorry best regards MJ ... From: Alan Watson To: stereohunter@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009...
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