Using Cartes de Ciel, I have generated courtesy finder charts for these last days before the Deep Impact experiment using a topocentric position of Salt Lake City, Utah - RA/Dec Chart: http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/finder/Comet9PFinder.gif Alt-Az Chart (for 111 W, 41 N): http://members.csolutions.net/fisherka/astronote/finder/Comet9PFinderAltAz.g... Bill Ferris, in another newsgroup, has been pointed to the detailed finders at Astrosite Groningen. These charts have stellar magnitudes plotted: http://www.shopplaza.nl/astro/comets/9pcharts/comets.htm see - http://www.shopplaza.nl/astro/comets/9pcharts/9PCH11.png http://www.shopplaza.nl/astro/comets/9pcharts/9PCH12.png The "official" Deep Impact site finder chart is at: http://deepimpact.umd.edu/gallery/Finder_Charts.html Positions for Comet 9P plotted in my two finder charts are: Positions for: Comet 9P/Tempel 1 Seen from: Salt Lake City, UT 111°53'27.6''W, 40°45'23.0''N Generated from: JPL Horizons Ephemeris Generator http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eph Date UTC Position J2000.0 20050624 0400 J132109.18 -053442.3 20050626 0400 J132412.66 -062210.8 20050628 0400 J132723.90 -070942.1 20050630 0400 J133042.74 -075713.3 20050702 0400 J133409.04 -084441.2 20050704 0600 J133751.52 -093400.5 20050706 0400 J134123.45 -101914.7 On day of impact: Date UTC Position J2000.0 Altitude Azimuth 20050704 0530 J133749.29 -093331.1 233.1103 22.7732 20050704 0540 J133750.03 -093340.9 235.1920 21.2337 20050704 0550 J133750.78 -093350.7 237.2182 19.6555 20050704 0600 J133751.52 -093400.5 239.1921 18.0415 20050704 0610 J133752.26 -093410.3 241.1175 16.3945 20050704 0620 J133753.01 -093420.1 242.9977 14.7170 20050704 0630 J133753.75 -093429.9 244.8362 13.0117 20050704 0640 J133754.50 -093439.7 246.6367 11.2807 20050704 0650 J133755.25 -093449.5 248.4026 09.5264 20050704 0700 J133755.99 -093459.3 250.1373 07.7508 Enjoy - Canopus56 (Kurt) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com