Hi, Seen Barnard tonight through 31” f7 looked like a diffuse nebula, under half the size of M13. Having a hard time picking it out with binoculars almost ...
Hi all, I am looking for an article by Zdenek Sekanina in the March 06 issue of Astronomy magazine: "Sungrazing Comets". Anyone able to provide me with a scan?...
Hi all, this newly identified comet may become visible visually. The time of closest approach to Earth in early January 2007 is almost at the same time as the ...
Hi Maik and all, you might be interested on this archive image about P/2006 HR30 (Siding Spring) we obtained a couple of weeks ago: http://tinyurl.com/ft6nk In...
... <<< Dear Giovanni, Ramon Naves just sent to cometas-obs also interesting image of this object. His image shows a very small and faint coma near the object....
... Hi Maciej, thanks for the info. Do you know the time of Ramon's exposure? It will be interesting to know if he imaged it during these last nights, or...
Giovanni, ... http://www.astrosurf.com/cometas/cometas/2006-HR30.htm Cheers, Maik -- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. * Juan Ramon Jimenez ...
Giovanni, I'm not sure but I thing that he made image last night. Ramon often send images just after make them. I hope that Ramon read us and response to make...
... Hi Maik, thanks for the link! So it was taken few hours ago. OK, this looks really like another object, compared to our image taken 2 weeks ago: now it's a...
Hi : I believe that there is to be very safe and to have precaution with this type of images . Regards , J.P.Navarro Pina . ... From: Maciej Reszelski To:...
I've been following this interesting object, last time it was the night of the July 29th. Even though the FWHM (5.9 marked in red in the graph) is clearly...
... Here is an image from tonight in poor conditions with passing cloud, but clearly showing a jet to the north, more than 90 deg from the direction of the...
Hi Peter and Rafael, your nice images are showing some interesting and fast developments on P/2006 HR30! Apparently, this comet is evolving very quickly; I'm...
Hi Giovanni : I believe that rather to be dust activity in this comet , since it has a strong central condensation and it shows a short jet with spiral form ,...
... Hi J.P., it could be... But who moved out the dust? It cannot get there by itself, so a gas source of some kind is needed anyway, to drag it out of the...
Yes Giovanni , one job professional serious interesting to make observations spectroscopic of this comet , the images ccd from this comet and one jet short...
Hello. Today the night is better than yesterday. The tail can be appreciated in the comet in SW. http://personales.ya.com/rferrand/P2006HR30-.gif Greetings R....
That's an interesting dynamic display. How did you do that? Clear skies, Dennis Persyk Igloo Observatory Home Page http://dpersyk.home.att.net Hampshire, IL ...
... Hi Rafael, excellent display! This further development adds additional questions to the framework... We imaged this object a little later, but the poor sky...
... The (gas)tail should be pointing to p.a. about 217 deg., according to Guide8.0 Reinder ... Reinder J. Bouma e-mail (1): rjbouma@... Bekemaheerd 77...
... (prolonged radius vector)? ... (As well as using Guide 8) you can use the JPL Horizons system to generate quantity PsAng for the theorectical tail...
Each image this compound one for the sum of 7 images 180 seconds,later has spent the filter DDP although the tail is visible in the simple images of 180...
Hi Rafa : Congratulations for your very good image , good job cometary . Best Regards , J.P.Navarro Pina . ... From: rferrand1 To: comets-ml@yahoogroups.com ...
P/2006 HR30 (Siding Spring): 2006 Aug. 5.12 UT: m1=[14.7, 20 cm SCT (222x). [ Nearby field stars were checked previously in DSS. The comet was searched for...
Hello, I was able to use the brief window of darkness after moonset this morning to find this new comet. Skies were not only exceptionally dark but the seeing...