Thread: Two new Comets!
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Old August 31st 04, 02:21 PM
John
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In message , Maurice Gavin
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:40:32 -0600, Greg Crinklaw
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It has been many months since we had comet news this exciting!

Two new comets have been discovered recently, both my amateurs. These
comets are currently bright enough to be visible in amateur telescopes,

Clear skies and good comet chasing!
Greg

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Greg Crinklaw
Astronomical Software Developer
Cloudcroft, New Mexico, USA (33N, 106W, 2700m)


Thanks Greg - any idea where one can get a daily ephemeris [for say
2200UT to suit me in UK!] for these two comets? My websearch only
gave 5 day ? intervals which make finding them hopeless ;-(


Try he-
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephem...ets/index.html.
As well as ephemerides, it gives suitable text versions of the elements
for several common astronomy software packages. Just copy and paste into
something like
Starry Night and you can follow the track day by day.
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Cheers,
John.