Re: Comet 73P fragment B splits in two

I tried again last night to see fragment B with no luck. As I watch
fragment C I noticed it brightening and dimming while I watched. Wondering
if anyone else noticed this? Out gassing?

Here is an image taken of fragment B last night 4/23/2006. So I am sure it
is still there.
http://webpages.charter.net/asteroid/images/B.jpg
Image taken at the Greiner Research Observatory-H51
Matt Mills

"Milton Aupperle" <spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:240420061435432057%spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <1145905079.449321.129530@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
eddie <eddiestardust@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Fellow BMAA member Alan Pasicnyk reported to me last night that he did
see it near
R Cor Bor last evening from Doylestown, PA which is located around 25
miles or so north of my Yardley, Bucks County location.

And I do have much more light polluted skies than Alan does.

I will try again tonight if the skies stay clear as they are now at
2:56 pm EDT.


I spent about 1 hour looking and had no luck finding Fragment B on
Friday night (April 23) but C was reasonably easy.

However I have not seen them visually yet and only found them with the
aid of a CCD camera with 1/2 second exposures on a MAK 5" scope, which
lets me see stars of magnitude 11 or 12.

My skies are severely light polluted at visually mag 2.5 to 3 (downtown
Calgary Alberta) and even with a 6x 30 mm finder, i can just barely see
Mag 6 stars.

HTH..

Milton Aupperle

http://www.outcastsoft.com/AstroImages/AstroIndex.html


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