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(meteorobs) Greetings from Hale-Bopp
Hi everybody,
No perseids for me as I am -22S so the radiant in under the horizon during
the whole night and further more I have a lot of work to do but that is the
second year in a row that some of my fellow observers notice more
unidentified meteors during this period. Can any southern observer confirm
that ?
Now for my comet report:
It is 5:42 AM local time in Noumea, New Caledonia. I am only lurking
the list at this time of the year due to overwork.I woke up at 5AM to end
some of my students computer tests corrections
Just a glance at the window and wow! what a sky! I put on a whole jogging
suit (it is 18 degrees Celsius outside and this is cold for us!)
5:15 Looking through my binoculars, under Canis Major, "et voila"
Hale-Bopp, very obvious with a small tail 1 degree long. Without my bino, I
could even guess it with averted vision. The comet is now around mag 4. The
daylight is coming. Now it is time to go back to work. I promise next time
I will wake up at 4AM
Jean-Christophe 'Papou' Millot
from Noumea - New Caledonia (22d16 S, 166d27E) UT+11
email : papou@canl.nc
home page : http://www.chez.com/papou