Two SOHO comet discoverers were mentioned in an article, "Stargazing in the Shadow of the Great Wall," by Renjiang Xie, which appeared in the February issue of...
The article also discusses Daqing Zhang of Ikeya-Zhang fame, mentioning that he rides his motorbike to his observing site along the Yellow River, where he...
Hi Sebastian, Thanks for the link to the image of Daquin Zhang on his motorbike -- it's nice to inject a human element into the comet hunting endeavour! ;-) ...
Hi, all-- I'm having a lot of fun with my newest astronomy software, Guide 8.0. While it is easy enough to create a plot of a comet's motion over time, or to...
Derek's latest post starts: "Regarding the pending claims, R. Matson's Meyer-group claim of 02/12/19 is classified as real and X." How can it be both? It gets...
Hi Tony, The confusion is over the period following the X -- it's not a sentence-ending period. Xavier Leprette (X. Leprette). --Rob ... From: Tony Hoffman...
Hi Rob, I am happy that I was wrong with my conclusion regarding your Meyer group comet claim! ;) Maik ... -- If they give you ruled paper, write the other...
Hi Maik, ... Me too! This gives me at least one comet in each of the 4 main sungrazer families. ;-) Happy to add one to your growing family... Cheers, Rob...
I just thought I'd let you know what's going on SOHO-wise in New York over the next month. I'm going to miss the actual space ball--I'll hopefully be upstate...
Hi everyone, Just a small question... I was looking at the LASCO C2 Kreutz Comet Paths for each month ( http://www.ph.u-net.com/comets/c2paths.htm ) and I was...
Why is it that each SOHO fragment that's part of a pair, triplet, etc. is counted as a separate comet, while the ~ 20 fragments of comets such as 57P/Du...
Hi Tony, ... Well, I think this is simply due to the nature of the Kreutz group. It is known that these comets are produced by splitting. When you designate ...
... not ... when ... It ... designate ... that the ... come ... parent ... comet of ... too. ... suggests ... strange ... Thanks, Maik-- I guess we can be...
Bill Gray of Project Pluto was kind enough to give me detailed instructions for generating plots of comets in Guide 8.0 with the view centered on the sun. With...
Hi All, I see in the latest MPEC that Comet C/2003 A2 has been assigned to a comet discovered on January 10th: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K03/K03A78.html ...
Rob, ... Actually it is never the factor. The only thing that is important is the time it is reported to the CBAT. BTW: My educated guess would be: P/2003 A1 =...
Hello all, My name is Tim Trice. I've been studying astronomy for about six years (since Hale-Bopp) but since I've moved to Houston, that's been very limited....
Hi, Tim, and welcome. I can relate to your living in Houston limiting your astronomy activities; I'm a New Yorker, and I only get to observe from a dark sky...
I downloaded ACDSee last night and played with it for a little bit. Tonight I tried to do the coordinates thing but couldn't figure it out. Does this program...
Tim-- You can't measure coordinates with ACDSee alone. I use Microsoft Photo Editor for positions and cropping, though MS Paint will do in a pinch. A lot of...
Hi All, In Maik's post to the reporting page, on Jan 22 2003 11:57:29, it says that stars/planets move vertically. Is this a mistake? I see them moving...
Args... how embarassing! Of course it should be horizontally. Now I should search a rock to hide under... ... Thanks, Maik -- If they give you ruled paper,...
... Hi Duncan, I still cannot get the Applet to load. If it helps, Internet Explorer is reporting an "error: null." comment in the Status Bar. Looking forward...
A object in SWAN images, near the 2002X5 visble from 2003/01/07 to 01/18 m1 about 10 MAG, Is it a comet? 0,0 in upper left corner, Size 640 x 512. Approximate...
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"soho_comet " wrote: Dear XingMing, Please raport this to CBAT or to Alan Hale maybe he can help much more as we. Best regards, Maciej...
Dear Maciej: Thanks! You are right. I have already checked it for two hours, I just reported CBAT too. Can't affirm it is a comet. thanks again. Best regards, ...
