On 08 Mar 2009, at 00:37, Chuck Hards wrote:
I finally started my digital conversion project.
Some are easier than others. While the telescope has been busy doing its thing tonight I've been working on IDing a few more astro pictures and came across one that ended up being pretty easy: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/Ikeya-Zhang04apr2002.jpg Seeing M-31 in the shot and figuring there can't have been that many bright comets near M-31 in recent years I just googled "Comet M31" and was right away able to determine it was Comet Ikeya-Zhang in 2002. So off to my observing log and sure enough it showed that on the evening of 4 April 2002 a bunch of us went out to the Lakeside site and I used the Schmidt camera to image Ikeya-Zhang when it was near M-31. Of corse that one was so easy I'm sure I'm going to have to pay a penalty with the next one. :) patrick