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
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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Can someone with clear skies give us a report tonight?
Thanks,
Mark
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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
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
Can someone with clear skies give us a report tonight?
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Mark
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Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Holmes [17P], continued
Can someone with clear skies give us a report tonight?
Thanks,
Mark
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Thanks, Bob. An interesting object, to be sure.
Mark
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From: Bob King [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mark Langenfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Holmes [17P], continued
Hi Mark,
Clear here in Duluth, Minn. 17P
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 is
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Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:02 PM
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Hi Again:
We just looked
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Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 10:02 PM
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Hi Again:
We just looked at it with a 100mm f/5 telescope and it is clearly orange.
However, it is also
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
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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 does not even make a bright area
behind
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