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- From: roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle)
- Subject: Re: Rediscovery of P/Swift-Tuttle
- Message-ID: <roelle.724952763@uars_mag>
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:46:03 GMT
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- K3032E0@ALIJKU11.BITNET (Herbert Raab) writes:
-
- >I was quite surprised that "P/Swift-Tuttle" was rediscovered by an amateur-
- >astronomer using "ordinary" binoculars. As far as I know, lots of professional
- ^^^^^^^^
- >and serious amateur astronomers searches for this object, using large Schmidt-
- >cameras or high-tech-CCD-equipment. The comet was not THAT far off the
- >predicted path (17 day late, and the orbit was said to be uncertain by
- >roughly 2 months) and bright enough to be spotted visually.
-
- S&T's December issue states that the binoculars used by Tsuruhiko
- Kiuchi to recover S-T last September have a 6-inch aperture. If these
- binoculars are "ordinary", I'd love the chance to visit your
- observatory one day. :-)
-
- > Herbert Raab >>>K3032E0@EDVZ.Uni-Linz.Ac.AT<<<
-
- CWR
-