Finding Comet Machholz

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Finding Comet Machholz

Post by RJN » Sun Dec 19, 2004 3:25 pm

Would someone be kind enough to locate Comet Machholz on one of more CONCAM images? It is likely bright enough. Keeping track of it has educational as well as scientific perks!
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Probably Comet Machholz

Post by tilvi » Mon Dec 20, 2004 7:07 pm

Probably this is the comet machholz, circled in black from MK station
also the map of this comet's path is here.

http://encke.jpl.nasa.gov/images/04Q2/q2-2.gif

http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~vpshetti/nsl/comet.jpg
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Post by RJN » Sat Jan 01, 2005 3:19 pm

Really good. I will be giving presentations in the next two weeks at the AMNH (New York) and at the San Diego AAS meeting and would really like the abilty to quickly point out Comet Machholz on very recent NSL images. Would you (or someone out there) please help me by continually finding Comet Machholz on NSL images and posting them to this site, as you did above? That would be big help! Thanks for whatever you can do!
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Machholtz

Post by nbrosch » Sat Jan 01, 2005 7:00 pm

Bob, perhaps if Lior could add this as a WOLF feature, the labels could include the comet as well.

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comet movie for 3 nights

Post by tilvi » Sat Jan 01, 2005 9:55 pm

Heres the comet movie for 3 nights at Cerro Pachon on 19, 20 & 21 Dec.
Comet marked with the arrow. (file size is around 2.3 MB)

http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~vpshetti/nsl/comet.gif

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Comet Machholtz

Post by nbrosch » Tue Jan 11, 2005 4:50 pm

Tilvi, as you seem to have found the comet, which is getting brighter, it might be interesting to see whether you could produce a brightness diagram by collecting "calibrated" magnitudes, relative to other stars in the field, and for all times using all the CONCAMS that see the comet. This would be the densest sampling of total cometary magnitudes available, and produced by a uniform procedure.
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