David Levy bags another comet

CONGRATULATIONS TO DAVID LEVY for discovering Comet C/2006 T1 (Levy)
this morning near Saturn. It's his 8th visual discovery. He used his 16
inch Newtonian.

Matthew Ota

Correction, he discovered it on October 3rd...


Matthew Ota wrote:
CONGRATULATIONS TO DAVID LEVY for discovering Comet C/2006 T1 (Levy)
this morning near Saturn. It's his 8th visual discovery. He used his 16
inch Newtonian.

Matthew Ota

ephermerides he

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K06/K06T21.html

It is visible in teh morning before sunrise, near Regulus
Matthew Ota wrote:
Correction, he discovered it on October 3rd...


Matthew Ota wrote:
CONGRATULATIONS TO DAVID LEVY for discovering Comet C/2006 T1 (Levy)
this morning near Saturn. It's his 8th visual discovery. He used his 16
inch Newtonian.

Matthew Ota

YouTube blocked video mocking Clinton administration

Limits imposed on access to clip critical of Albright-run North Korea
policy


http://worldnetdaily.com/news/articl...TICLE_ID=52405

Yeah, the Commie Google and YouTube love queers, Communists and Fascist
Muslims, but can't stand anything right of Mau, Levy or Stalin.


Matthew Ota wrote:
CONGRATULATIONS TO DAVID LEVY for discovering Comet C/2006 T1 (Levy)
this morning near Saturn. It's his 8th visual discovery. He used his 16
inch Newtonian.

Matthew Ota

Matthew Ota wrote:
CONGRATULATIONS TO DAVID LEVY for discovering Comet C/2006 T1 (Levy)
this morning near Saturn. It's his 8th visual discovery. He used his 16
inch Newtonian.

Matthew Ota

Impressive considering that automated scopes usually find this kind of
thing now. But then if you live in New York City and only use your
scope an hour a night under mag. 4 skies versus someone who lives under
mag. 6+ skies in dark, dry Arizona and spends a good amount of time
with a WF 16" scope, you'd likely have a good chance at bagging
something. The one thing absolutely needed are good charts, an
accurate set of setting circles, or barring that, an encyclopedic
knowledge of every deepsky object in your scan field.

In article . com,
Rich wrote:
The one thing absolutely needed are good charts, an
accurate set of setting circles, or barring that, an encyclopedic
knowledge of every deepsky object in your scan field.

Or possibly a photographic memory.

I have read that some such people can unify one half of a random-dot
stereogram against the other half that they saw earlier, so picking out
a new point of light might well be possible.

-- Richard

Impressive considering that automated scopes usually find this kind of
thing now. But then if you live in New York City and only use your
scope an hour a night under mag. 4 skies versus someone who lives under
mag. 6+ skies in dark, dry Arizona and spends a good amount of time
with a WF 16" scope, you'd likely have a good chance at bagging
something. The one thing absolutely needed are good charts, an
accurate set of setting circles, or barring that, an encyclopedic
knowledge of every deepsky object in your scan field.


Yep..everything you don't have.

R
Subject: David Levy bags another comet
R
From: "Rich"
R
Date: 12 Oct 2006 21:02:29 -0700
R
R Impressive considering that automated scopes usually find this kind of
R thing now. But then if you live in New York City and only use your
R scope an hour a night under mag. 4 skies versus someone who lives under
R mag. 6+ skies in dark, dry Arizona and spends a good amount of time
R with a WF 16" scope, you'd likely have a good chance at bagging
R something. The one thing absolutely needed are good charts, an
R accurate set of setting circles, or barring that, an encyclopedic
R knowledge of every deepsky object in your scan field.

Levy has automated scopes, too. They were running while he looked
visually thru the 40cm rig. After spotting the comet by eye, he used
one of the auto scopes to get images of it.
magnitude 4 skies in New Yirk City ar a low-end average for a good
dark night. Last night, 13-14 October, we in the City scored our first
Milky Way sighting of this year's fall seson. *There's a spring season
but the sky was mostly cloudy or hazy.)
This feat was accomplished in parts of Brooklyn, Staten Island,
and the Bronx, as far as now, about 6PM on the 14th. Altho Manhattan
didn't see the Milky Way last night, it achieved transparency of 4-1/2
to f, depending on location.
Note well that observations are best done from elvation, to clear
the ground clutter of lights on the face. When, from themid 70s thru
1999 I house sitted on Manhattan it was common to look up from the
street and see almost no stars but the very brightest ones. But from
the flat I stayed at, a penthouse, above the street-level lights, the
sky was amazingly star-filled (when the sky itself was in fact clear
and dark). By laying on the terrace behind the solid stone parapet and
letting my eyes dark-adapt I occasionally spotted the Beehive and Coma
clusters of stars. The former was to me always a soft glow on the sky,
the latter was a peek-a-booo of one star or an other which when
mentally combined made up Coma.
One of the highlights from the City was the enjoyment of comet
Ikeya-Zhang in 2003(?) from Central Park. I with other home
astronomers went there to watch the parade of planets in the evening
sky as well as the comet. We at first found I-Z with binoculars bu
then several of us saw it by eye.
I must add that this was on a night when the Tribute of Light was
turned on at ground Zero. Its blue beams did not interfere with
general stargazing. In fact, we saw stars THRU the beams. Incientlly,
be noting the altitude of the top of the beams, from the park and
elswhere, we figured out that the beams reached about 18 kilometers
up.

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