[nswnra] Re: Stephen James O'Meara
- From: "Corona Australis" <corona_australis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:49:05 +1100
The book from O?Meara sounds promising. I have three of his Messier Objects,
Caldwell Objects and Hidden
Treasures. All good books which gives you a lot of info on each of the objects
being written about. Actually
I was wondering when we?d might see or if there was something in the planning
for a Dunlop book from
Dr Cozens, I?d buy a copy.
Good nab on the comet I would imagine the moon would not have made it too easy.
There has been a bit
of chatting in the northern hemisphere about it. Last I check it was still too
north to see for me plus it has
been too cloudy for anything.
I think I might have seen your NGC 5128 document before, congrats on the
publication!!
Looking forward to a waned moon, lovely weather we?re currently having.
Cheers,CS
Rob
From: nswnra-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nswnra-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of G C
Sent: Saturday, 23 October 2010 09:50
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Subject: [nswnra] Stephen James O'Meara
Stephen James O'Meara wants to write a book on 100+ Dunlop objects.
http://www.allbookstores.com/Stephen-James-O-Meara/author/2
I saw Comet Hartley this morning.
Full moon is just before noon today so I didn't think I would see Hartley this
morning, but I did!
<http://www.iceinspace.com.au/vbiis/images/smilies/happy19.gif> I tried to see
it with 20x80 binoculars and just managed to pick it
up. Then I used my 12" Dob with a 30mm EP (1.5 deg field) and the core was easy
to see. I couldn't pick the edge of the comet
however.
The comet formed a triangle with two stars magnitude 7.5 and 8.0.
Some comet data: Distance: 0.1216 AU (18.2 million km) Right ascension: 5h 52m
30.7s Declination: +34° 24' 4"
Our paper on NGC 5128 has been published.
Early Australian Optical and Radio Observations of Centaurus A
I wrote part of an article for the Publications of the Astronomical Society of
Australia (PASA) a while back. It has just been
published.
You can download it (3.4 MB) here:
http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/138/paper/AS09071.htm
<http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/138/paper/AS09071.htm>
My part was on the discovery of NGC 5128.
Glen
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