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Re: (meteorobs) Fwd: New Bright Comet Alert!



On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 02:21:12PM -0400, Roger Greenwood wrote:
> George:
> 
> Is it my imagination, or is this really close to the sun visually?

I haven't checked a planisphere yet, but I think we will need good horizons
to see it. Anyone have a phanisphere handy or have an opinion on this.

GWG
> 
> On Apr 12, 2004, at 1:35 PM, George Gliba wrote:
> 
> >
> > Lew asked me to post this to the meteorobs list:
> >
> >>> New Bright Comet Alert!
> >>>
> >>>> From IAUC 8320
> >>> - -------------------------------
> >>>
> >>> COMET C/2004 F4 (BRADFIELD)
> >>>      Ephemeris from orbital elements on IAUC 8319 (H = 8.0, n = 3):
> >>>
> >>> 2004 TT     R. A. (2000) Decl.   Delta     r    Elong. Phase    Mag.
> >>> Apr.  5     2 05.53   - 1 44.5   1.288   0.469   18.8   43.4    6.1
> >>>       7     2 07.42   - 1 40.8   1.227   0.412   17.9   48.3    5.6
> >>>       9     2 08.68   - 1 29.6   1.159   0.353   16.9   55.4    4.9
> >>>      11     2 08.75   - 1 03.7   1.085   0.294   15.5   66.0    4.2
> >>>      13     2 06.59   - 0 07.6   1.005   0.238   13.6   82.6    3.3
> >>>      15     2 00.31   + 1 51.7   0.923   0.191   10.3  109.6    2.4
> >>>      17     1 48.03   + 5 43.1   0.856   0.169    5.1  148.4    1.9
> >>>      19     1 32.28   +11 17.5   0.830   0.186    4.0  157.8    2.1
> >>>      21     1 18.89   +16 57.2   0.845   0.231   10.3  128.6    2.9
> >>>      23     1 09.74   +21 44.3   0.882   0.287   15.8  107.3    3.7
> >>>      25     1 04.02   +25 36.7   0.929   0.346   20.1   92.6    4.4
> >>>      27     1 00.66   +28 46.2   0.980   0.404   23.4   82.0    5.0
> >>>
> >>> Good Observing!
> >>> GWG
> >
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