... tail ... to ... Hello Akimasa, thanks for your info and effort. Up to now, the most convincing image I have seen about the antitail of C/2001 Q4 (NEAT) is...
Dear Seiichi, I read with interest your notice about 944 Hidalgo crossing the M31 region towards the end of November and thought that this may be a good chance...
... M31 ... push my ... observations. ... Rather more difficult a sight in an 8-inch scope than might first be suggested. Remember, the 10-11 day old moon will...
I wonder how the mentioned other telescopes have missed it if it was that bright... http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=2572 Cheers, Maik -- If...
... At least the brightness seems quite reasonable since BD+30 30 58.9 is around V 10.4 mag. Solar Elongation eas around 110deg, so quite reasonable for survey...
... "but despite calls to other telescopes in the hopes of capturing a confirming image, the object has not been observed again to date." Well, you need to...
Dear colleagues, The following comets are waiting for the first observation now. P/1983 V1 is in good condition in the Southern Hemisphere. P/1996 R2 must be...
Dear comet fans, I'm looking on the web for old drawings showing comets of the past. The aim would be to show to some students how people saw these fashinating...
Cristovao Jacques did send the following sad news to the spanish comet observers list: "Our friend and great observer Vicente Ferreira de Assis Neto died from ...
Dear Mark Jaworsky, ... Yes. The recovery news was issued soon after my posting the mail. Please visit my web pages. They have been already updated :-) Best...
Hi all, ... In early September I contacted Rob McNaught and suggested to him to try the recovery of this comet. He said he would put it on his observing...
Hi all, IAUC 8429 announces the following namings for previously unnamed comets: C/1996 R3 (Lagerkvist): after remeasuring NEAT positions by M. Meyer in Dec....
The following astrometry wasn't sent on time to the mpc, I don't know how well it fits with the rest but it's the first confirmation after detection. Best...
Dear Juan, ... with the help of your observations even the unrestricted solution becomes periodic (this wasn't the case without them). Again excluding the two...
I tried 11/6 UT to about 20.5 mag +/- 20 arc min and found nothing but had a few background/flat problems and am going to reprocess these images. ... From:...
Gianluca I recently visited the rare books section of the Linda Hall library in Kansas City Missouri. Among the books there was Hevelius' Cometographia...
Although I haven't seen anyone else post on this subject, at least to me the situation is quite obvious. An overview of published visual data (the CCD info is...
Hello John, ... this comet is indeed an interesting object, that should deserve more attention in spite of its brightness (even considering its outbursts,...
Hello John : It is possible that he is correct the hypothesis of a change in the structure of the nucleo of the comet 29 P/sw-1, due to the years that we took...
... progressively ... regime change in the comet nucleus, also the observing conditions could play a role: now this comet is reasonably well placed in the sky...
... The Sun has also been unusually active over this period - is there likely to be a solar trigger here? Perhaps there's a case for looking at a correlation...
... Dear Graham, thank you so muc for the very useful info! Sincerely, Gianluca -- ********************************************************************** *...
Hi all, IAUC 8433 reports that LONEOS has observed this object as consisting of two components (fainter to brighter 102" west and 33" north). The ephemeris in ...
Hi all, sorry for my typo: ... of course this is the Catalina Sky Survey, not LONEOS. I should really rather go to bed after a working day of 16+ hours instead...
... Over the years there have been un-numbered attempts at correlating the outbursts of 29P (and many other comets as well) with various forms of solar...
