... coma; ... to ... Hi John, I 'm new to the group, so I 'll try to behave myself. I uploaded a small jpg picture in the 'Photos' part, in th 17/P Holmes...
I took a few images of the comet recently and, spurred by some color images taken by Jerry Lodrigus that showed some faint blue streamers on one side, likely...
Just in case you have your imaging computer on local time and are going through the night, don't forget that DST ends in the U.S. Sunday morning at 2AM local. ...
Anyone else having trouble reaching the MPC's New Object Ephemeris Generator (http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/MPEph/NewObjEphems.html)? Thanks, patrick 718...
Thanks but I've now tried both http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/MPEph/ NewObjEphems.html , http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/MPEph/ NewObjEphems.html and...
Here is an interesting article about the 30th anniversary of the VMS operating system. The interesting part is the couple of paragraphs quoting a certain...
I have updated the pdf at http://www.menkescientific.com/Comet17P-Holmes.pdf to include the measurement of the radial intensity of a mosaic of images of Comet...
A couple of night agao I took images of comet Holmes that show what I believe are part of the dust tail from the comet. As you can see below I took Lunimance...
Hi: I thought that some of you might be interested in the images I took with the Sierra Stars Observatory. Camera: FLI Proline 09000 Filter wheel: FLI CW4-5...
Take a look at MPEC 2007-V69 just announced... http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K07/K07V69.html "The minimum distance from the geocenter is 0.000081 AU (1.89...
I'll be at G96 that night, but I'll be surveying for more objects instead of doing photometry. If anyone gets a light curve, I'd be interested in seeing it. ...
2007 VN84 is significant in that it not only comes closer, it is much bigger, around 20 m in diameter, compared to 2004 FU162 only about 1/3 that size. Based...
Isn't it Rosetta (not-a-stone)? 2007 VN84 (H=26.3) had a close encounter with Mars in the last decade of February this year. Compare the dates and distances...
... Sorry, Rich, a bit too late for the Rosetta photo contest :-P That one was won by station 540: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMKI9W797E_FeatureWeek_0.html No...
... 2007-V70 ... Tim has now taken credit: " The minimum distance from the geocenter is 0.000081 AU (1.89 Earth radii) on Nov 13.844 UT. Timothy B. Spahr...
What I find interesting is that although the orbit is still relatively uncertain (semimajor axis anywhere from 1.165 to 1.212 AU, the miss distance for all...
Dave Tholen
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I agree with you, Denis. 2007 VN84 = ROSETTA Cheers, Stefano 143...
Salue Stefano, ... I doubt the Rosetta folks would be happy to lose the principal designation in this linkage, so I would suggest that it's rather: ROSETTA =...
Hello all, I noticed the comment, on MPEC 2007-V70, that the SSC ephemerides for this object start on 12 November. The Horizons ephemeris covers a much...
I've just posted a pseudo-MPEC for this object at http://home.gwi.net/~pluto/mpecs/rosetta2.htm A couple of comments: H=26.4 corresponds to a rock about 13 to...
Please keep observing Rosetta inbound and outbound to Earth and report observations as usual to MPC. This unusual event may be used for testing software...
