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Re: (meteorobs) Comet Wirtanen
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> De : THOMAS T WOJACK <NTZT04A@prodigy.com>
> A : meteorobs@latrade.com
> Objet : (meteorobs) Comet Wirtanen
> Date : vendredi 21 fivrier 1997 08:55
>
> Well, I was looking at my past and present ASTRONOMY magazines and
> they stick some asteroids, comets, and all the planets' motions
> versus the stars. Well, ASTRONOMY didn't sat anything about it. So,
> I thought maybe I could draw a few star field around it's predicted
> position and maybe detect it. Do you think I could see it with a 6"
> Dob?
>
> Jonathan(NTZT04A@prodigy.com)
> http://pages.prodigy.com/Astro/homepage.htm
Thomas
According to my Dance of the Planets sofware, P/Wirtanen is in Pisces, near
Pisces/Cetus border, 100 east of Saturn and around magnitude 11 so it may
be a challenge for a 6", even in dark skies conditions.
An easier object should be P/Wild2, in Gemini mag 10 but wait for the moon
to go away !
For more info on comet observations, you should look to
http://encke.jpl.nasadot gov
hope this helps
Jean-Christophe 'Papou' Millot