[AZ-Observing] Re: Comets nucleus vanished?
- From: "Keith Parizek" <keithparizek@xxxxxxx>
- To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 12:33:46 -0700
Hi Gene- Last night you mentioned that you had found info about the 1892
outburst of Holmes. Can you post a link to this info? I still hold for a
collision instead of a solar event for this outburst. A big smack of this
comet by another object would create a lot of heat would it not? Something
big obviously happened to cause this much of an outburst.
Regards
Keith
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From: "gene lucas" <geneluca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 1:45 AM
Subject: [AZ-Observing] Re: Comets nucleus vanished?
No, I still see a distinct nucleus "blob" and a larger fuzz ball
tonight. After presenting my talk on binoculars at the Desert Foothills
Astronomy Club in Anthem this evening, I dropped Keith Parizek off at
his house in Rio Verde, and got a look at Comet Holmes in his 16 inch
Meade Newtonian. I saw a distinct, tiny bright speck off center on a
large "nucleus blob", surrounded by a huge big fuzz ball. Both the
"nucleus blob" and fuzz ball appear to have expanded more and more the
past several evenings. The "blob" seems to have gotten more diffuse.
Both the blob and fuzz ball still showed slight yellowish color, which
seems to be fading over the past few nights, but possibly because
everything is expanding in size. Could not tell if the bright speck was
a background star, seen through the comet, or not. I thought I could
detect a much fainter outer halo around the rest of the comet, but no
apparent "tail" or off center trailing. Keith says he thinks the fuzz
ball looks "granular" to his eyes. This was prior to the Moon rising,
about 12:30 am. Clear, and darker skies in Rio Verde than at my place
in Fountain Hills, of course.
Gene Lucas
(17250)
Bill VanOrden wrote:
>We set up a couple of telescopes in the driveway this evening for the
>tricker treaters and saw no distinct nucleus.
>
>Beevo Tempe
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:az-observing-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Chris Schur
>Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 8:43 PM
>To: Az-Observing List
>Subject: [AZ-Observing] Comets nucleus vanished?
>
>
>The first few deep CCD images just came up on my
>screen outside, and looks like tonight the comets core
>is gone. I see only a diffuse glow in the red and
>green frames. Maybe the hlue frame will have
>something...
>
>Chris
>
>
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