Ha! There it is in spite of poor seeing! With the unaided eye,
a fuzzy spot half way up in the NNE, ... planetary-like through
10x50 binoculars and reminiscent of the Eskimo Nebula in the
constellation Gemini (NGC 2392).
Cometarily
Yours,
Bernd
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Poignant and sadly too true.
Jerry Flaherty
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From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 12:20 AM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Holmes [17P], continued
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:13:04 -0500, you wrote:
What a r
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:13:04 -0500, you wrote:
>What a remarkable object! It will be fascinating to follow its changes day
>by day.
It is really depressing that, nearly 40 years after landing on the moon, we
can't just detour some asteroid mining crew to go have a look at the thing and
see what
A much bigger object tonight than our last clear skies here two nights ago,
but a bit more diffuse and the yellow/orange color slightly less evident.
Still, it was a spectacular sight with a 32 mm eyepiece in my 8" SCT (62X),
with its distinctly stellar, point-like condensation in the center and
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> Can someone with clear skies give us a report tonight?
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> Thanks,
>
> Mark
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Thanks, Bob. An interesting object, to be sure.
Mark
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Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 9:34 PM
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Hi
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Can someone with clear skies give us a report tonight?
Thanks,
Mark
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Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 12:01 AM
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Hi, Larry, List,
Stuck under cloud cover so dense that even the
nearly Full Moon do
Larry, and List:
I thought I might sneak a peak with my binoculars from
the Pittsburgh, PA area. Didn't think I had much of a
chance with the bright moon but, WOW, in 11x80
binoculars the comet is BIG. I had to get a look with
my C-11 and it is spectacular. I have never seen such
a comet. It a
d since it doesn't have a tail right now, some observers
> have confused it with a nova. We've had at least two reports of a new
> star."
>
> Go, Holmes!
>
>
>
> Sterling K. Webb
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had at least two reports of a new star."
Go, Holmes!
Sterling K. Webb
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Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2
Hi Again:
We just looked at it with a 100mm f/5 telescope and it is clearly orange.
However, it is also very obvious that this thing is "unusual." I thought
that I had a focusing problem, but the scope was in focus.
There is a beautiful circular coma, but the "condensation" is NOT
star-like. It
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