Well, the sky cleared and I got the NexStar 9.25 out to try for M51 and its supernova (July 1st, 2005 at 0600 UT). After some dark adaptation, I managed to...
David Knisely
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Jul 1, 2005 8:51 am
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Thank you for posting this Tom. I've been observing M51 with my 18", and it's interesting to see an old friend change. One question for anyone who cares to...
I don't want to engender a debate. Rather, this is to let folks considering a laptop know that there are ways to deal with its issues, and let them weigh the...
Ok, I'm jumping in! ... A laptop is it's own heat generator and doesn't need even a box to function out in the cold or damp air. Only when it's raining is it a...
... Agreed: Last night I packed up my 12-inch scope into it's suitcase for the almost annual trip from Maryland to central (in the desert) Washington State....
Last night this supernova was a fairly easy bag with my 12.5". I then decided to have a go at it with my 6". With that it was much tougher target. I believe...
... I won't feel so bad about not finding it in my TV76 last night then. (I was able to barely see SN 2004et in NGC 6946 last year with the TV76.) -Florian...
Greetings: I had recently asked for help from amateur astronomers at the request of my wife (who works for Bloomberg News) for the upcoming Deep Impact. Here's...
For folks that care about such things, it seems likely that the progenitor of this object has been identified as a red supergiant. This is based on HST images...
Brian Skiff
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Jul 3, 2005 7:19 am
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I notice on the Minor Planet Center's 'NEO Confirmation Page': http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/NEO/ToConfirmRA.html ...that there is a rather bright object (mag...
Brian Skiff
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Jul 3, 2005 7:40 am
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Just got in from a great night out, a two scope night with the 80mm on my left and the 14" on my right. Seven other people with assorted instruments from 4...
Hi all, Many thanks for this info also! I have been looking @ M-51 (and the SN, which I guess to be no fainter than 12, with my 10" F6 Dob - best view seems...
... The supernova is actually between mag 13.5 and 14. Have a look at: http://www.members.cox.net/jonc96/m51_nova.htm ...which shows the field with north to...
Brian Skiff
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Jul 3, 2005 6:48 pm
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About 12 hours ago I speculated that a new comet had been found in the morning sky. This has now been published on IAUC 8557, with orbit and ephemeris details...
Brian Skiff
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Jul 3, 2005 6:59 pm
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... Not wanting to be picky, Brian, but surely you mean the supernova is just *left* (south) of the core. We had a faint glimpse of the supernova outside ...
bmccurdy@...
Jul 3, 2005 8:27 pm
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... Yes, sorry. Don't trust anything I say about left-right of things. \Brian...
Brian Skiff
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Jul 3, 2005 8:30 pm
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Is the Deep Impact Spacecraft the faint moving spot above the time label in the animation at http://www.noao.edu/news/deep-impact ? It was a friend of mine...
Landis Arboretum Saturday 3 July 2005 Present: Eric Plesko, Frank Cernik, Sharon Cernik, Don Myers, Bernie Forman, Pete Fernandez, Greg Nowell Instruments:...
Just wanted to put out a quick note on my observation of comet 9P/Tempel tonight. I started observing at 10:30p MST (05:30 UT), making a sketch of the comet as...
My son Tom Healy, my son-in-law Mike Fisher and I observed the Deep Impact event with JBO's 32-inch RC and a 20mm Nagler yielding 300x. Before the event, the...
A group of folks out at our property successfully observed Deep Impact as well tonight. Twilight ends much later here at our latitude, and it was still fairly...
Howdy all; Myself, David Fredericksen and Rich Walker went to the Eagle Eye Road site about 80 miles from Phoenix. I rated the seeing at 6/10 and the ...
The link doesn't work for me at the moment but it was the object above the bottom left time stamp. IIRC the time stamp was June 26 ... It's consistent with the...
I just checked with MPChecker and found that the object most likely is the asteroid (4758) Hermitage. It is of magnitude +18.1 and is moving 8 times slower in...
From Vekol Road, Arizona: Prior to impact using a 10-inch Dobsonian at 150x under fair transparency (6/10) and moderate seeing conditions (6/10), the comet was...
It's tough for me to estimate a brightness change as I couldn't see the nuclear region prior to impact. But at its brightest (about 15 to 20 minutes after...
I'll have to count myself among those for whom the change in the comet's appearance was noticeable but modest. I viewed it through a small finderscope ...
