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!
- RJN
Finding Comet Machholz
Probably Comet Machholz
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
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
Tilvi
Michigan Tech. University, MI.
Michigan Tech. University, MI.
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!
- RJN
- RJN
comet movie for 3 nights
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
![Image](http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~vpshetti/nsl/comet.gif)
Comet marked with the arrow. (file size is around 2.3 MB)
http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~vpshetti/nsl/comet.gif
![Image](http://www.phy.mtu.edu/~vpshetti/nsl/comet.gif)
Tilvi
Michigan Tech. University, MI.
Michigan Tech. University, MI.
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Comet Machholtz
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.
Noah Brosch
Noah Brosch