[BAA Comets] BAA comet image archive

[Ronan Newman]

Very nice Nick

On Wed 30 Oct 2019, 08:52 Nick James, <ndj at nickdjames.com> wrote:

> Martin Mobberley has been doing a fantastic job of scanning the section
> print archive. There are boxes and boxes of photographic prints in our
> archive, some of which have not seen the light of day for 60 years or
> more, and which we are gradually placing on the web.
>
> One comet with particularly good coverage so far is 1956r1 Arend-Roland.
> Have a look at the great set of shots here:
>
> http://www.britastro.org/cometobs/1956r1/thumbnails.html
>
> You might need to refresh the page if you have been there recently.
> Those were the days when comet photography, even of bright comets, was
> very challenging and the results from 1957 are pretty amazing.
>
> My thanks to Martin for doing this job for us. There are many more old
> prints left to do but plenty have been scanned already. It's worth a
> search around the archive to find them.
>
> Nick James, Director.
>
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