[BAA Comets] 2014 Q2 was Re: P/2014 X1 (Elenin)

[Tony Angel]

Hi Denis,

It was not good enough to send, that is why it is not annotated in the link 
location.  Just wanted to show that is now up. :)

Tony.

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From: "denis buczynski" <buczynski8166 at btinternet.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 5:47 PM
To: "BAA Comets discussion list" <comets-disc at britastro.org>
Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] 2014 Q2 was Re:  P/2014 X1 (Elenin)

> Hi Tony,
> You will need to send images to me directly or to cometobs at britastro.org
> Good that you are able to image this comet. Please keep image coming
> Denis
>
>
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> From: Tony Angel <tony_angel_uk at hotmail.com>
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> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 4:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] 2014 Q2 was Re:  P/2014 X1 (Elenin)
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry. I did not realise that attachments  did not get posted :(
>
> https://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_angel_uk/16048753671/
>
> Tony.
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> From: "Tony Angel" <tony_angel_uk at hotmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 4:35 PM
> To: "BAA Comets discussion list" <comets-disc at britastro.org>
> Subject: [BAA Comets] 2014 Q2 was Re:  P/2014 X1 (Elenin)
>
>> Thank you Nick. It was good to see you and others again. Being able to 
>> meet up with yourselves is one of the few things I miss with being in 
>> Spain.
>> After the really bad weather over here I am now having a spend a few days 
>> getting the observatory up and running again. Clamshells are not the best 
>> design to keep out driving rain in gale force conditions.  I did a few 
>> tentative observations to check on the amount of work doing, though I 
>> have decided against a certain method of cleaning the corrector plate 
>> LOL.
>>
>> I took a quick and dirty image of 2014 Q2 in the early hours. (attached). 
>> Not good enough to publish or analyse properly as it showed up a few 
>> problems for me to iron out. 4" F4 Pentax/ ST7.
>>
>> Tony
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>> From: "Nick James" <ndj at nickdjames.com>
>> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2014 9:00 AM
>> To: "BAA Comets discussion list" <comets-disc at britastro.org>
>> Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] P/2014 X1 (Elenin)
>>
>>> Morning Tony,
>>>
>>> Good to see you at the BAA Christmas Meeting on Saturday.
>>>
>>>> Another dramatic unfolding of a new comet over the past 36 hours.
>>>>
>>>> According to Leonid  it is 17m (by UCAC4) and 18m (by USNO B1.0)
>>>> It is Leonid's third comet.
>>>> http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K14/K14X66.html
>>>
>>> I managed to book a 10 min slot on iTelescope T21 this morning and got 
>>> two 120s frames which I've stacked:
>>>
>>> http://www.nickdjames.com/Comets/2014/2014x1_20141215_0655_ndj.jpg
>>>
>>> After a rainy night it cleared briefly in Chelmsford at around 0640 and 
>>> I managed to get six 60s frames with my C11 with Auriga low in the NW. 
>>> These also show the comet just a few minutes before the NM images:
>>>
>>> http://www.nickdjames.com/Comets/2014/2014x1_20141215_0650_ndj.jpg
>>>
>>> Astrometrica gives a magnitude of around 17.3 using UCAC-4.
>>>
>>> Congratulations to Leonid. Great to see that amateurs can still beat the 
>>> surveys!
>>>
>>> Nick.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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