Comet Pojmanski, "Morning comet" |
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Comet Pojmanski, "Morning comet" |
 Feb 24 2006, 01:18 PM
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QUOTE MORNING COMET: A new comet is emerging in the morning sky: Comet Pojmanski has been brightening since its discovery in January and can now be found just east of Venus before sunrise. It looks like a slightly fuzzy blue star of magnitude 5; binoculars reveal a small tail. A good morning to look is Monday, Feb. 27th, when the comet glides by the double star Algedi. Sky Map This from spaceweather.com (updates will likely follow) --- http://s15.invisionfree.com/Psychestellic |
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Feb 24 2006, 03:26 PM
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QUOTE (Canopus @ Feb 24 2006, 08:18 AM)  Sky Map This from spaceweather.com (updates will likely follow) --- http://s15.invisionfree.com/Psychestellic See also: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...indpost&p=39091 And also: http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2006A1/2006A1.html http://www.skyhound.com/sh/comets.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Feb 24 2006, 10:16 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Science/Astronomy:
* See it Now: New Comet Brightens Rapidly http://www.space.com/spacewatch/060224_night_sky.html During the next couple of weeks skywatchers will be turning their attention to a newly discovered comet that has just swept past the Sun and will soon cruise past Earth on its way back out toward the depths of the outer solar system. -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Mar 22 2006, 12:41 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
New(?) comet in Bootes
Grzegorz Pojmanski, Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory reports: Using the ASAS3V instrument of The All Sky Automated Survey (telephoto lens 200/2.8, diameter 70mm + CCD + Johnsons V filter, 3 minute exposures, pixel size 14.8 arcsec, rms astrometric accuracy: 4 arcsec) I have found another apparently cometary object on images taken on March 15, 2006. I could not identify this object using MPC/CBAT pages. Search for prediscovery images revealed the same object on the frames taken on Mar 14 (I filter), March 12, 09, 06 ,03 (V filter), as well as on image taken tonight (Mar 16, I filter). Observations: DATE UT HJD RA (2000) DEC 03/03/2006 06:38:53 (Mar 03.277) 2453797.7815 14:00:29 +13:14.7 13.69 (V) 06/03/2006 06:19:20 (Mar 06.263) 2453800.7680 14:04:23 +13:42.9 13.62 (V) 09/03/2006 06:43:46 (Mar 09.281) 2453803.7846 14:08:20 +14:14.1 13.38 (V) 12/03/2006 06:32:23 (Mar 12.273) 2453806.7769 14:12:18 +14:47.4 13.00 (V) 14/03/2006 06:46:15 (Mar 14.283) 2453808.7873 14:14:55 +15:10.9 ---- (I) 15/03/2006 06:37:30 (Mar 15.276) 2453809.7806 14:16:17 +15:23.5 12.43 (V) 16/03/2006 06:14:32 (Mar 16.261) 2453810.7654 14:17:36 +15:35.9 ---- (I) FWHM of the coma is 60 arcsec; Diameter of the ASAS-detected coma (largest contour) is 1.5 arcmin with a 2 arcmin tail pointing west. Simple extrapolation predicts that tonight (Mar 16/17) comet should be visible close to the position: RA,DEC 14:18:55 +15:48.3 . Images of the comet can be viewed through the following link: http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~gp/asas/asas_c2006_2.html Regards, Grzegorz Pojmanski -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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