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Comet NoSHOW
by Chuck Hards 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Clouds, again. Why am I not surprised? Another few nights of this, and there won't be anything worth looking at. The forecast isn't looking good, with a storm front moving over in the next 48-72 hours. At least I got to see a vaguely comet-like smudge and faint tail, a whopping degree long. No, not a good comet at all.

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Double Treat
by Joe Bauman 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Agreed, Chuck. Social media helps yo keep me from turning antisocial. After all, I don't pretend to be a scientist and I couldn't be all business if I had to. Let the buddy chatter roll! ------------------------------ On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 8:56 AM MDT Chuck Hards wrote: >The buddy chatter is the only thing that keeps me here. ;-) > > >On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:28 AM, daniel turner <outwest112(a)yahoo.com>wrote: > >> This is the resource I use for current comet estimates. It's from data >> collected world wide. >> >> http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html >> >> Also if you're into email discussion groups I can recommend 3 Yahoo groups >> that are very high quality. Focused, no flame wars, very little buddy >> chatter. >> >> >_______________________________________________ >Utah-Astronomy mailing list >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > >Send messages to the list to >Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > >The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. > >To unsubscribe go to: >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Double Treat
by Joe Bauman 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Same here. ------------------------------ On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 9:11 AM MDT Richard Tenney wrote: >Clouds were continuously too heavy to see anything down my way except the thin crescent of the moon shining through, darn it. > > > >________________________________ > From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards(a)gmail.com> >To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> >Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2013 8:56 AM >Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Double Treat > >The buddy chatter is the only thing that keeps me here. ;-) > > >On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:28 AM, daniel turner <outwest112(a)yahoo.com>wrote: > >> This is the resource I use for current comet estimates. It's from data >> collected world wide. >> >> http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html >> >> Also if you're into email discussion groups I can recommend 3 Yahoo groups >> that are very high quality. Focused, no flame wars, very little buddy >> chatter. >> >> >_______________________________________________ >Utah-Astronomy mailing list >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > >Send messages to the list to >Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > >The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. > >To unsubscribe go to: >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options". >_______________________________________________ >Utah-Astronomy mailing list >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > >Send messages to the list to >Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > >The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. > >To unsubscribe go to: >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".

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Comet watching?
by Chrismo 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

I see the moon in my binoculars, but no comet. Anyone?

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Any luck? I see lots of facebook pics from everywhere else...
by Chrismo 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

But nothing here in the valley. Anyone else?

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PanSTARRS
by Chuck Hards 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Seeing about a degree-long tail, through gaps in the citrus. From my back yard in Granger.

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Fox 13
by Joe Bauman 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

A fellow from Fox 13 dropped around my house to interview me about Pan-STARRS. It should be on tonight at 9 and possibly this afternoon at 5 also. Thanks, Joe

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Pan-STARRS / ISON tonight, 2013 MAR 14
by Patrick Wiggins 14 Mar '13

14 Mar '13

Pan-STARRS managed to stay hidden from viewers at SPOC this evening but could you believe the number of public that showed up? That had to be one of the biggest turnouts we've had at a SPOC event in a long time. And it was nice to see how happy the crowd seemed to be. Even if the comet was a no show the public seemed happy to see Jupiter and the Moon. And let's not forget Dave Bernson's magical mystery laser light tour of the skies that had large parts of the crowd enthralled. Yeah, we didn't see the comet tonight but it was still be very nice night. As for ISON, here's my latest stereo pair showing it looking like Pan-STARRS will probably be looking later this year as it near the north celestial pole: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/C_2012_S1.2013MAR14.JPG patrick

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] No comet watching
by Kelly Ricks 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

I'm living in Oberlin where my boyfriend has a position teaching physics at the college. I'd never heard of Marietta (except for the one in Georgia), but that's not too surprising given that I'm still trying to learn all the little towns outside Cleveland. There's a great little astro club here, and I live two blocks from the college observatory, but the skies are nothing compared to what's out west. Still, I guess they're a million times better than what I had in Chicago for the previous two years, so I shouldn't complain. ~Kelly ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:30:02 -0600 > From: Chrismo <djchrismo(a)gmail.com> > To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] No comet watching > Message-ID: > <CAFfjrTP= > N5hRBoHBF192X6dbLNdLLhq2eBTtQJ0yh+tM9JSYyw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Where in Ohio are you? I am from Marietta, Living in Salt Lake City now. > > On Tuesday, March 12, 2013, Kelly Ricks wrote: > > > ...and no luck in Ohio either...sigh. Been cloudy all week, and likely to > > continue. > > You guys out west are lucky. > > > > ~Kelly > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > > > > Message: 3 > > > Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 20:16:08 -0600 > > > From: Patrick Wiggins <paw(a)wirelessbeehive.com <javascript:;>> > > > To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com<javascript:;>> > > > Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Pan starts from spoc > > > Message-ID: <8ACC4AF3-A84E-44F5-97C2-A6E298122A58(a)wirelessbeehive.com > <javascript:;> > > > > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > > > Looking ok in the Bogdan but hopeless naked eye, > > > > > > 4.5 degrees to left of Moon. > > > > > > patrick > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > > > > Send messages to the list to > > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com <javascript:;> > > > > The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy > club. > > > > To unsubscribe go to: > > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > > Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on > > "Unsubscribe or edit options". > > > > >

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Comet PanSTARRS
by Joe Bauman 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Another problem is that with ordinary software it's easy to enhance photos so that the subjects look much better then they do by eve or in binoculars. -- Joe ------------------------------ On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 2:35 PM MDT Patrick Wiggins wrote: >On 13 Mar 2013, at 08:32, Chuck Hards wrote: > >> This isn't a "Great Comet", by any means, actually it's not even a "good" >> comet. > >Agreed that it's not a great comet but I'm not ready to demote it to "not good". Sunday evening it was very good. Easily seen from SPOC if one knew where to look. > >By last evening it had faded but still displayed a nice little tail and obvious coma. Compared to most comets which can't be seen without a telescope I rated last night's view as good+. > >And I know what you mean about over hyping. Every media person I've spoken to I've related the story of Comet Kohoutek and how its being over hyped ending up spoiling the view of the truly spectacular Comet West for so many people. > >I'm concerned it's happening again. So many of the Pan-STARRS pictures being shown on TV were taken from down south when it was much brighter. And people are even openly speculating that ISON, and even its tail, will be visible during daylight. "Brighter than the full Moon." Give me a break! Let's all hope that'll be the case but let's keep those thoughts amongst ourselves until there is real evidence that it's happening. > >Oh and Chuck, regarding crying wolf, have a look at yesterday's Bagley cartoon on the subject of crying wolf. :) > >patrick >_______________________________________________ >Utah-Astronomy mailing list >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > >Send messages to the list to >Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > >The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. > >To unsubscribe go to: >http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy >Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".

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