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Comet Ison sighting?
by Enid Norton 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

so I was up early this morning with binoculars and saw something on the north side of Mars. blurry and elongated could this have been Ison or a fluke of vision?

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Newly released video of Baumgartner's freefall
by Wiggins Patrick 16 Oct '13

16 Oct '13

And here I was feeling pretty pleased at making it to 194 on a jump this past weekend... I've got a long way to go to match Fearless Felix's speed. :) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2460772 Video resolution isn't that great. If anyone finds a better copy please post it here. patrick

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New Image from Nocturne Observatory - NGC7331 Galaxy
by Tyler Allred 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Hi All, I have been very busy lately and have had very little time for imaging, but I got one good evening last week and got some decent results. I targeted NGC7331, part of the Deer Lick Group of galaxies. Here is a link: <http://www.allred-astro.com/viewer.php?id=140&cat=1&sub=104> http://www.allred-astro.com//viewer.php?id=140&cat=1&sub=104 Be sure to click the images a few times to get to the full version. There are loads of galaxies scattered around the image. Enjoy! Cheers, Tyler

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Fw: [CometChasing] LATEST NEWS ON COMET ISON FROM FERRIN
by Joe Bauman 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

More dreary news about "the comet of the century." It may not even reach naked-eye brightness. -- Joe On Monday, October 14, 2013 8:18 PM, "respuestas2013(a)gmail.com" <respuestas2013(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi all: I have just finished updating the secular light curves in the R and Visual bands. I have added a new Section of Magnitude Prediction. The law that comes out of the plots is m(Visual)(Delta,R,0) = 8.12 + 5 Log Delta + 2.40 Log R + 0.01 Alpha where Delta is the distance Comet-Earth, R the distance Comet-Sun and Alpha the phase angle. It is rather surprising to find a phase dependence of the coma because a coma made up of only gas would not show such an effect. That is why I concluded a few days ago, that the light from the coma was dominated by the dust and not by the gas. This has now been confirmed. Christian Buil took a spectrum of the comet and it is difficult to discern the atomic lines. The spectrum is mostly continuum. http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/comet/ison/obs.htm You will notice that the slope is very very shallow, 2.4 which implies n=0.97, almost flat. In fact both plot suggest that the comet is leveling off. From past experience (that is comets Hönig, LINEAR, Tabur and Elenin), we know that after the comet levels off in brightness it disintegrates in a matter of day or hours. If the comet exhibits a leveling off in three data sets, I will issue the RED ALERT. The comet is now in ORANGE ALERT. As suggested by the plots, this point may not be far away. Do not believe me. Go to the plots and reach your own conclusion. I am now working on the other data sets. Another conclusion from the plots is that the comet will not even reach to naked eye magnitude. Sorry folks. Disruption will be manifested by an elongation of the coma increasing with time. That corresponds to the debris spreading along the orbit. Thus observers should watch for a change in morphology of the coma. At this moment it is of the outmost importance that observations be made every clear night and that they be reported as soon as possible. I am updating the page daily. It is hard work, believe me. Here is the full report: http://astronomia.udea.edu.co/cometspage Ignacio Ferrin Institute of Physics, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences University of Antioquia Medellin, Colombia oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo __._,_.___ Reply via web post Reply to sender Reply to group Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) Recent Activity: * New Members 1 Visit Your Group Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use • Send us Feedback . __,_._,___

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Next ATM session
by Hutchings, Mat 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Hi all; Just a note that the next ATM session will be held on 11/9/2013 at the Hutchings' optical shop (my garage). The sessions start at 09:00 and go until 14:00. Come and go as you like during those times. If you need directions to my house, let me know and I'll e-mail you driving directions. Take care, Mat This message and any attachments are solely for the use of intended recipients. The information contained herein may include trade secrets, protected health or personal information, privileged or otherwise confidential information. Unauthorized review, forwarding, printing, copying, distributing, or using such information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you received this email in error, and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this email and any attachment is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error, please contact the sender and delete the message and any attachment from your system. Thank you for your cooperation

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] New Image from Nocturne Observatory - NGC7331 Galaxy
by Bruce Hugo 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Excellent Shot Tyler! I hope to be able to do that some day in the future. Bruce

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Fw: [CometChasing] LATEST NEWS ON COMET ISON FROM FERRIN
by Joe Bauman 15 Oct '13

15 Oct '13

Daniel, wouldn't you prefer to see a nice naked-eye comet? I would. -- Joe ------------------------------ On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 9:33 AM MDT daniel turner wrote: >Not dreary to me at all. > >I note that the science in this article was done with a C11 which is within the reach of many amateurs. > >The light curve with it's phase angle dependency and the weakness of the emission lines pointing to a mainly dusty coma, This is the science of astronomy and with comets it unfolds quickly. I also enjoy the physical shape of the orbit and visualizing it on the canvas of the celestial sphere. > >It takes decades for data to turn into information in other branches of astronomy like the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. And meteors and auroras are here and gone too quickly to hold much of my interest. Comets happen at a "people pace" that holds my interest over many months. > >As for the cycle of hype/disappointment: I've learned to ignore it. It's like watching the same Wagner opera over and over again. People will over hype it and others will complain bitterly. The comet doesn't care and neither do I. > >DT > > > > >On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 12:49 AM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > >More dreary news about "the comet of the century." It may not even reach naked-eye brightness. -- Joe > > > >On Monday, October 14, 2013 8:18 PM, "respuestas2013(a)gmail.com" <respuestas2013(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > >Hi all: >I have just finished updating the secular light curves in the R and Visual bands. >I have added a new Section of Magnitude Prediction. The law that comes out >of the plots is > >m(Visual)(Delta,R,0) = 8.12 + 5 Log Delta + 2.40 Log R + 0.01 Alpha > >where Delta is the distance Comet-Earth, R the distance Comet-Sun and Alpha >the phase angle. It is rather surprising to find a phase dependence of the coma >because a coma made up of only gas would not show such an effect. > That is why I concluded a few days ago, that the light from the coma was >dominated by the dust and not by the gas. This has now been confirmed. >Christian Buil took a spectrum of the comet and it is difficult to discern the >atomic lines. The spectrum is mostly continuum. > > http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/comet/ison/obs.htm > > You will notice that the slope is very very shallow, 2.4 which implies n=0.97, >almost flat. In fact both plot suggest that the comet is leveling off. From >past experience (that is comets Hönig, LINEAR, Tabur and Elenin), we know >that after the comet levels off in brightness it disintegrates in a matter of >day or hours. > If the comet exhibits a leveling off in three data sets, I will issue the >RED ALERT. The comet is now in ORANGE ALERT. > As suggested by the plots, this point may not be far away. Do not believe >me. Go to the plots and reach your own conclusion. I am now working on >the other data sets. > Another conclusion from the plots is that the comet will not even reach >to naked eye magnitude. Sorry folks. > Disruption will be manifested by an elongation of the coma increasing >with time. That corresponds to the debris spreading along the orbit. >Thus observers should watch for a change in morphology of the coma. > At this moment it is of the outmost importance that observations >be made every clear night and that they be reported as soon as >possible. I am updating the page daily. It is hard work, believe me. >Here is the full report: > > http://astronomia.udea.edu.co/cometspage > >Ignacio Ferrin >Institute of Physics, >Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences >University of Antioquia >Medellin, Colombia >oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo >__._,_.___ >Reply via web post Reply to sender Reply to group Start a New Topic Messages in this topic (1) >Recent Activity: * New Members 1 >Visit Your Group > >Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use • Send us Feedback >. > >__,_._,___ >_______________________________________________ >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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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Arrows story on KSL 5 tonight (OT)
by Joe Bauman 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

Thanks, Patrick! ------------------------------ On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 1:47 AM MDT Wiggins Patrick wrote: >Hi Joe, > >I emailed the station asking about the credits and now I see the text of the online version does mention you and one of the cadets by name: > >http://www.ksl.com/?sid=27234933 > >patrick > > >On 14 Oct 2013, at 01:16, Joe Bauman wrote: > >> No, I'm the man who wasn't there. Or was there but wasn't ID'd. -- Sigh. >> >> >> >> On Monday, October 14, 2013 12:44 AM, Wiggins Patrick <paw(a)getbeehive.net> wrote: >> >> Thanks Howard. It was a fun story to work on. >> >> I too was surprised at the lack of credits (Joe and the CAPer as well). Not sure what was up with that other than that the reporter was in Alaska when the story was put together and maybe the tech doing the editing did not know the names. >> >> patrick >> >> >> >> On 14 Oct 2013, at 00:29, Howard Jackman wrote: >> >> What a great story! I'm definitely wanting to go out and photograph some of these, looks like a photo road trip is in order. Too bad we can't get to the one on Kennecott property... >> I didn't see Joe as being credited though, maybe I blinked when they put up his name, nice to see CAP involved. >> >> >> >> On Sunday, October 13, 2013 7:01 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw(a)getbeehive.net> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I just heard that the story about the concrete arrows that Joe and I helped with is to air tonight on KSL 5 at 10. >> >> 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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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Arrows story on KSL 5 tonight
by Kelly Ricks 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

I'd love to see the clip. Is it available? I poked around the website, but didn't see it. ~Kelly > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 18:59:07 -0600 > From: Wiggins Patrick <paw(a)getbeehive.net> > To: utah astronomy listserve utah astronomy > <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Arrows story on KSL 5 tonight (OT) > Message-ID: <4BFE065F-3E72-4754-98C8-413B247C9BC0(a)getbeehive.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hi, > > I just heard that the story about the concrete arrows that Joe and I > helped with is to air tonight on KSL 5 at 10. > > patrick > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:29:01 -0700 (PDT) > From: Howard Jackman <sumoetx(a)yahoo.com> > To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Arrows story on KSL 5 tonight (OT) > Message-ID: > <1381732141.72205.YahooMailNeo(a)web162806.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > What a great story! I'm definitely wanting to go out and photograph some > of these, looks like a photo road trip is in order. Too bad we can't get to > the one on Kennecott property... > ?I didn't see Joe as being credited though, maybe I blinked when they put > up his name, nice to see CAP involved. > > > > On Sunday, October 13, 2013 7:01 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw(a)getbeehive.net> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I just heard that the story about the concrete arrows that Joe and I > helped with is to air tonight on KSL 5 at 10. > > 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". > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php > > End of Utah-Astronomy Digest, Vol 128, Issue 18 > *********************************************** >

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Arrows story on KSL 5 tonight (OT)
by Wiggins Patrick 14 Oct '13

14 Oct '13

Hi, I just heard that the story about the concrete arrows that Joe and I helped with is to air tonight on KSL 5 at 10. patrick

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