[AZ-Observing] Re: Deep Impact: Comet Tempel from Flagstaff
- From: BillFerris@xxxxxxx
- To: az-observing@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 17:24:08 EDT
It's tough for me to estimate a brightness change as I couldn't see the
nuclear region prior to impact. But at its brightest (about 15 to 20 minutes
after impact), the nuclear region appeared stellar and similar in brightness
to
the faintest of the three stars just northeast of Tempel. Those three stars
were...
Tycho 5546:1273:1, 11.2 mag.
GSC 5546:1397, 11.6 mag.
GSC 5546:0882, 11.9 mag.
NOTES:
- ID's from MegaStar5
- Magnitudes from ASAS-3:
_http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~gp/asas/asas3_catalog.html_
(http://www.astrouw.edu.pl/~gp/asas/asas3_catalog.html)
Thanks to Brian Skiff for pointing me to ASAS-3
So, I'd ballpark--large stadium w/ corporate skyboxes--the core at the upper
11th magnitude range. Who else made comparisons between the core and those
three stars and what were your results? For about 5 minutes, they formed a
fine parallelogram asterism.
Regards,
Bill in Flagstaff
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