[BAA Comets] Comets-disc Digest, Vol 20, Issue 2

Fri Jan 3 12:40:35 GMT 2014

Hello Jure, 

Jon Shanklin (our Director) is responsible for the submission of visual magnitude data to ICQ and I sure he will want to comment on the BAA Comet Section usage of the COBS database. 

I am responsible for the archiving of comet images and sketches submitted by members. I have suggested  in a message to comet-ml that COBS may want to consider the addition of  a facilty to construct a global comet image database within the COBS database. This suggestion has also been suggested by Stefan Beck who archives comet images for the German group.Has you considered this suggestion for the future development of your excellent facilty.

Denis Buczynski
Secretary Comet Section
British Astronomical Association

>________________________________
> From: Jure Zakrajšek <jure.zakrajsek2 at gmail.com>
>To: comets-disc at britastro.org 
>Sent: Friday, January 3, 2014 12:07 PM
>Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] Comets-disc Digest, Vol 20, Issue 2
> 
>
>Hey to all,
>
>First let me wish you all the best in the year 2014 and may there be a lot
>of clear skies and amazing comets :)
>
>As some of you probably noted there was quite some work done on the COBS
>site in the last month of 2013.
>The analysis page got some quite nice features, also the myobs page was
>updated so now the users can edit their observations. There were some
>updates also in the user profile sections. A nation and association can now
>be selected by user, also a prefill of the observation forms with default
>values can be selected.
>Also the statistics page was updated so now even more information on the
>data stored in the database is shown.
>
>Since there is not much of a response from ICQ we should still send the
>observations to them in expected format and probably just from one source
>per nation not to burden their email inbox too much.
>Since we are preparing a new feature for nation ICQ coordinators i would
>like to ask you for a contact of BAA ICQ coordinator who was responsible
>for sending ICQ observation reports, so i can grand him access to the new
>feature for testing.
>
>Best regards
>Jure
>COBS administrator
>
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>>    1. Re: comet images 20131229 (Andrew Robertson)
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>> -------------- Posredovano sporočilo --------------
>> From: "Andrew Robertson" <alphacentauri at tesco.net>
>> To: "'BAA Comets discussion list'" <comets-disc at britastro.org>
>> Cc:
>> Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2014 08:28:34 -0000
>> Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] comet images 20131229
>> Managed a very nice view this morning of C/2013 R1 Lovejoy between 5am and
>> 6am using my 28 x 110 bino's. The sky was murky and I had to look through
>> gaps in clouds so not practical to sketch. I could only trace the tail
>> through 1.25 degrees with only about 2/3 that length being prominent.
>> Bright
>> core with prominent outer halo. Tail still looks a tad curved to me. Also
>> picked up C/2012 X1 Linear in the large binoculars but just a faint fuzz
>> with possibly a hint of a very short stubby tail.
>>
>> Regards,
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>> Andrew
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: comets-disc-bounces at britastro.org
>> [mailto:comets-disc-bounces at britastro.org] On Behalf Of Peter Carson
>> Sent: 30 December 2013 16:15
>> To: BAA Comets discussion list
>> Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] comet images 20131229
>>
>> Andrew,
>> >From light polluted Essex in 11 x 80 bino's I could see nearly 2 degrees
>> of
>> tail stretching away from an obvious coma. Still looks good and worth an
>> early morning view.
>> My image from yesterday morning is at
>>
>> http://britastro.org/baa/index.php?view=detail&id=2170&option=com_joomgaller
>> y&Itemid=200
>>
>> Best wishes
>> Peter
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Andrew Robertson" <alphacentauri at tesco.net>
>> To: "'DENIS BUCZYNSKI'" <buczynski8166 at btinternet.com>; "'BAA Comets
>> discussion list'" <comets-disc at britastro.org>
>> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 9:45 AM
>> Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] comet images 20131229
>>
>>
>> > Very nice indeed Denis. I haven't eyeballed Lovejoy for about two
>> > weeks now, combination of moon, weather and family staying over during
>> > the xmas period.
>> > Has it changed much in the last couple of weeks?
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Andrew
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: comets-disc-bounces at britastro.org
>> > [mailto:comets-disc-bounces at britastro.org] On Behalf Of DENIS
>> > BUCZYNSKI
>> > Sent: 29 December 2013 19:53
>> > To: Comet-Images at yahoogroups.com; BAA Comets discussion list;
>> > asvcometsection at yahoogroups.com
>> > Subject: [BAA Comets] comet images 20131229
>> >
>> > Hello all,
>> > I imaged these two comets this morning. Images placed on the BAA Comet
>> > Gallery at the following links:
>> >
>> > Best wishes
>> > Denis Buczynski
>> > Tarbatness Highland Scotland
>> >
>> > C/2013 R1 Lovejoy
>> > http://britastro.org/baa/index.php?view=detail&id=2173&option=com_joom
>> > galler
>> > y&Itemid=200
>> >
>> > http://britastro.org/baa/index.php?view=detail&id=2172&option=com_joom
>> > galler
>> > y&Itemid=200
>> >
>> > http://britastro.org/baa/index.php?view=detail&id=2171&option=com_joom
>> > galler
>> > y&Itemid=200
>> >
>> >
>> > 290P Jager
>> >
>> > http://britastro.org/baa/index.php?view=detail&id=2174&option=com_joom
>> > galler
>> > y&Itemid=200
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