Re: KOPR APASS catalog magnitudes issues?
Hi Jakub, 1. It is really the isue with the query looking from the comet center instead of the center of the image. If you have in the settings the option calculated comet pos. ON then the queries
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Jure Zakraj?ek
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Re: KOPR APASS catalog magnitudes issues?
Hello Jure, unfortunately this finds me in a time when I am heavy loaded with work and have no time to examine these things detailed. However answer to 1. question could be different obtaining of
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Jakub ?ern?
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#33102
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KOPR APASS catalog magnitudes issues?
Hi, I'm experiencing some strange behavior with KOPR. I have the stable version 0.83 installed as an compile executable. I also have the live version, which I run from a source with Python 3.10 I have
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Jure Zakraj?ek
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Re: Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) now in SWAN
Hi Vladimir, I've been imaging this comet in the morning twilight using iTelescope T70 in Chile. This is a 135mm Samyang lens but it has the advantage of being able to get to the horizon. As of this
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Nick James
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Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) now in SWAN
Hi All. Just for information - a recent bright comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) now is visible in the last SWAN images. X-Y position (0,0 - upper left) on 9/12 is 226-321. Comet`s UV singature is enough bright
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Vladimir Bezugly
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Comet 333P/LINEAR close approach to Earth
Comet 333P/LINEAR made its close approach to Earth at 1014UT on the morning of 2024 December 9 as seen from Tucson, Arizona at a distance of 80,860,186 kilometers (50,254,932 miles). The comet was
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Mike Olason
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OFF TOPIC: Free Zoom webinar by John W. Briggs on "The Importance of Preserving Astronomical History" this Saturday, December 14
We would like to invite everyone to a free Zoom webinar on *"The Importance of Preserving Astronomical History"* *by astronomy historian John W. Briggs this Saturday, December 14, at 8:30 p.m. EST
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Edwin Aguirre
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Re: MOU0001 on the NEOCP
Hi everyone, we also tried to film the MOU0001 field and we did not detect anything in the field. Greetings Monte Viseggi Observatory 126 Associazione Astrofili Spezzini - APS Via delle Fornaci 1/A
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Luigi Sannino
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Re: MOU0001 on the NEOCP
Hi Maik, all, I¡¯d still encourage anyone else to have a go at this. Theoretically, it could be ¡°there¡± but faint, or several arcmin away from the ephemeris position and I somehow missed it, but
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Alan Hale
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Re: MOU0001 on the NEOCP
Alan, many thanks for this information. I really thought that the second tracklet was a good confirmation, and this was the reason for my message, but now it seems it might still be questionable. Maik
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Maik Meyer
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Re: MOU0001 on the NEOCP
Hi Maik, all, I just took some images with LCO-Tenerife, and was unable to detect any moving objects down to magnitude ~19 within a 5x5 arcminute field centered on the predicted ephemeris position.
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Alan Hale
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MOU0001 on the NEOCP
Hello all, I want to point out the object MOU0001 on the NEOCP. My parabolic solution looks very interesting - intrinsically faint but very close approach to Earth in January. Of course, this is based
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Maik Meyer
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Connecting to unsecured SWAN website
Miki ¨C this topic came up back in early September. See the messages starting with my #32535. Your browser may automatically be changing the link to https: ¨C even if you manually type http:. Bill
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Matson, Rob D.
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Re: FITS images problem
I usually recommend use Aladin to open the FITS and find how many layers and what kind of images and data are in there. There are some FITS which have multiple slices. Some others are something called
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Gonzalo Blasco
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Re: 2015CD60
Hi Roberto, Yes, I did. Sincerely, Alan Great that you confirmed. Did you send the observation with confirmation to the MPC? Regards, Roberto Haver On Mon, 09 Dec 2024 12:03:25 -0700 "Alan Hale"
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Alan Hale
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Re: FITS images problem
Hello Miki, Maybe you should try to open it with Siril. At first level, just opening and looking at an image, it is quite simple to use. Christophe Envoy¨¦ avec la messagerie s¨¦curis¨¦e [Proton
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cmltb612
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FITS images problem
Normally, I could process FITS images in GIMP and look for comets, but now the image isn't displaying correctly (EXPECIALLY STEREO FITS). Any ideas?
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Mikolaj Kaszczyk
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Re: 2015CD60
Great that you confirmed. Did you send the observation with confirmation to the MPC? Regards, Roberto Haver "Alan Hale" <ahale@...> wrote:
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Roberto
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Re: SWAN comet hunting
http doesn't have to do anything with that. It says no requested URL found. Also, I tried opening site on Firefox, doesn't work either.
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Mikolaj Kaszczyk
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Re: SWAN comet hunting
Your browser probably isn¡¯t allowing you to access it because it¡¯s http:// and not https://. I think I had to make an exception for the site so that Firefox would open it. --Rob Sent: Monday,
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Matson, Rob D.
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