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Comment on About by Julius Schmidt: observatör | Amatörastronomins historia

Julius Schmidt: observatör | Amatörastronomins historia — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:59:42 +0000

[...] trots att personen i fråga uppbär lön som astronom. Ett aktuellt exempel är Carl Hergenrother som är fackastronom med inriktning mot solsystemet. I vidare amatörastronomiska kretsar är han väl mest känd för att ha upptäckt komet [...]

Comment on In the Transient Sky – April 2013 by val

val — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:57:46 +0000

hello

i was at shell island at the weekend in lanbedar north wales. we saw what we think was a comet or meteor has there been anything in the skys this weekend. it was unbelievable and i took about 20 pictures but only managed to catch it once

Comment on Comet PANSTARRS now fading by Joe Stieber

Joe Stieber — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 19:59:11 +0000

C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) is now visible in the morning too. I spotted it today (March 27, 2013) at 5:51 am EDT, an hour before sunrise, with 16×70 binoculars. The location was a couple of miles from the intersection of 40 deg N, 75 deg W, in the southern NJ suburbs of Philadelphia, PA. At the time, Pan-STARRS was about 5.5 degrees altitude near Delta Andromedae. At the same time, it was difficult to see M31 in the 16x70s, 11 degrees away at 11.5 deg altitude. The comet will be less than a few degrees from M31 on April 3rd, 4th and 5th when they’ll both be a bit higher in the sky.

I had a really nice view of Pan-STARRS with my 12.5-inch Newtonian this past Saturday evening (March 23rd) from the NJ Pines, where it’s a good bit darker than my suburban home, so M31 was visible in the scope (but it looked dimmer than the comet).

Joe Stieber

Comment on Comet PANSTARRS now fading by Allgemeines Live-Blog ab dem 26. März 2013 | Skyweek Zwei Punkt Null

Allgemeines Live-Blog ab dem 26. März 2013 | Skyweek Zwei Punkt Null — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:22:59 +0000

[...] vom 26.3. mit viel Aufwand – sonst kommt das oder gar das heraus. Auch nette frühere Bilder hier, hier, hier und hier, Sammlungen hier & hier – und [...]

Comment on Comet PANSTARRS now fading by Salvador

Salvador — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:27:56 +0000

Hi Carl.

excellent work …

I’ve finished my visual observations, and with binoculars, this comet ..
I will continue later with telescope.

Salvador Aguirre

Comment on Comets from the VATT by Donn Appleby

Donn Appleby — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 13:16:19 +0000

Comet “Siding Spring” seems to be our ‘Death Star’ if trajectories hold true. If Mars is the bullseye, the ejecta will destroy life on Earth shortly thereafter. It’s interesting that this comet is six times larger that Mars’ moon Phobos and traveling five times faster than the Apollo spacecraft achieved. It’s a wake-up call for Earthlings to know we couldn’t even catch an object like this should it approach Earth.

Comment on Comet PANSTARRS naked eye from Tucson by Rick

Rick — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:26:04 +0000

Was at White Rock lake last night(wednesday) at the high point of where mockingbird and buckner come together. We could not see it Monday from there, but last night we definitely saw it. You can not see it with the naked eye though. I was using Nikon 16×50 binocs, and it was still fairly faint, but bright enough where I found it quickly each time I looked.

Comment on Happy Perihelion Day, Comet PANSTARRS! by Allgemeines Live-Blog ab dem 9. März 2013 | Skyweek Zwei Punkt Null

Allgemeines Live-Blog ab dem 9. März 2013 | Skyweek Zwei Punkt Null — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:18:39 +0000

[...] und TX, ein Bericht aus AZ, ein S&T Press Release und Artikel in Deutsch (mehr) und Englisch (mehr und mehr). Plus ein anderer hübscher Komet – und das letzte Chelyabinsk-Opfer im [...]

Comment on Comet PANSTARRS naked eye from Tucson by Allgemeines Live-Blog ab dem 9. März 2013 | Skyweek Zwei Punkt Null

Allgemeines Live-Blog ab dem 9. März 2013 | Skyweek Zwei Punkt Null — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:18:33 +0000

[...] vom 11. März aus Indien und von den Philippinen und vom 10. März aus CA, AZ (gemalt!) und TX, ein Bericht aus AZ, ein S&T Press Release und Artikel in Deutsch (mehr) und Englisch (mehr und mehr). Plus [...]

Comment on Comet PANSTARRS naked eye from Tucson by astrosaintlouisneuweg

astrosaintlouisneuweg — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:07:49 +0000

On 10/03 it was maybe a bit early for us in the northern hemisphere.

On march 15th, our astronomy club organizes a public observation session in the neighboring town of Folgensbourg (Alsace, northeastern France)… if the weather is with us (our climate is closer to the one in the UK than the one in Arizona!) I’ll try to shoot a few pictures of it and if you want send them to you.

As you can see on our blog, we chose the place for it’s free from obstruction western horizon.

Happy PanStarrs observation !