Re: Unknown object in M15 image on Nov 27, 2024
Anecdotally, I once created a comet on Tri-X film back in the late 60's. I was wearing a radium-dial watch in the dark room. :-) Kinda exciting for a minute or two. [email protected]> wrote:
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Tom F
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Re: Unknown object in M15 image on Nov 27, 2024
Have you checked to see if you may have imaged a venting from a spacecraft or rocket body??RegardsThomas
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Thomas Dorman
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Re: Unknown object in M15 image on Nov 27, 2024
Hi Peter, Thank you so much, that¡¯s very interesting; I had no idea that could happen. It was the first image I took with the Seestar and, being new to stacking procedures, I let it proceed without
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John Hart McCue
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Re: Unknown object in M15 image on Nov 27, 2024
John, I think the stacking may have registered a frame incorrectly causing a faint image of the centre of M15 to appear offset to the west. I've blinked the B-27 image with the Dec 20 image and there
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Peter Birtwhistle
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Unknown object in M15 image on Nov 27, 2024
Hello all, I'm a new member, MPC recommended your group. I live near the North York Moors National Dark Skies Park, northeast UK, and recently bought a Seestar S50 to help them with outreach. To
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John Hart McCue
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Re: A comet in TESS data
On 12/29/24 04:33, Maik Meyer wrote:> You may use With the minor note that, because this is a spacecraft-based observation, you'll have to tell MPC where the spacecraft was at the time of the
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Bill J. Gray
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Re: Unusual brightening of comet C/2023 Q1
Hi JJ, I used the word debate in the context that the apparent magnitude of this comet is in debate, not your method of observing or derived results. I do not want to have an argument about this.I
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Denis Buczynski
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Re: Unusual brightening of comet C/2023 Q1
Alan, Michael, all, ( Sorry for the length of this text ) This thread reminds me of several discussions from the past decade on the old "Visual vs. CCD" debate ... Quoting Alan words : " I was
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jjgonzalez jjgonzalez
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Re: A comet in TESS data
Hello dear, That's it ! Comet 2022 L3 Atlas, Thank you Maik, Sam and Peter, Christophe
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Re: A comet in TESS data
Hi Christophe, Using a geocentric Horizons ephemeris, Comet P/2022 L3 (Atlas) was at 02 12 03.40 +23 40 42.1 on 2022 11 16.685 UTC, quite close to the position you've given below. Peter J95
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Peter Birtwhistle
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Re: A comet in TESS data
Hi Christophe and Maik, I was about to reply that this is C/2022 S4 (Lemmon) which is several magnitudes too faint (close to magnitude 20) but passes over the exact same part of sky (down to the
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Re: A comet in TESS data
Hello Christophe, this is P/2022 L3 (ATLAS). Magnitude fits nicely. You may use https://minorplanetcenter.net/cgi-bin/checkmp.cgi Regards Maik
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Maik Meyer
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A comet in TESS data
Hello happy comet enthousiasts ! I was performing some photometry on a variable star (Hip10272, in Aries) in some TICA TESScuts, sector 58, when I came upon a quite nice comet slowly crossing the FOV,
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cmltb612
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Re: Unusual brightening of comet C/2023 Q1
Dear all the outer coma is there and 3', the image from dec. 28 is a deeper (12"/4 15x130 seconds) under best sky conditions. However, this cannot be seen visually. Best regards Michael ------
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michaeljaeger
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Re: Unusual brightening of comet C/2023 Q1
Dear all, I was debating whether or not I wanted to wade into this again, but I guess my curiousity got the better of me. I¡¯m attaching two stacked versions (3 x 180 seconds) of all the images I
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Alan Hale
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Re: Unusual brightening of comet C/2023 Q1
Thomas, Denis, Peter, Jakub, all, Some recent further visual data : C/2023 Q1 (PANSTARRS): 2024 Dec. 28.82 UT: m1=11.7 (AQ), Dia.=6', DC=1/, 20 cm SCT (77x). [ Faint, large and very diffuse outer
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jjgonzalez jjgonzalez
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Re: Unusual brightening of comet C/2023 Q1
Dear All, For the moment i measure magnitude 16 using SDSS r' filter. Uncalibrated images. PhotAp 6.1arcsec ________________________________ Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2024 2:19 PM To:
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Observatory Gr?mme
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Re: C/2024 G3
After taking a another look at Michael's picture, I just realized from the star on the upper left that the image may have been sharpened with a high pass filter, which may be making the spine look
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Qicheng Zhang
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Re: C/2024 G3
The comet's absolute magnitude is ~7, so it's technically brighter than the Bortle limit for all q. Of course, it's also dynamically old, but with a dynamical age on the order of only ~1 orbit, and
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Qicheng Zhang
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Re: Unusual brightening of comet C/2023 Q1
Hello Denis, The answer to most of you question is easy. This usually happens to weak and gasseous comets. The activity goes gradually up, but we cannot see the product as the coma surface brightness
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Jakub ?ern?
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