Re: [BAA Comets] Comet 103P/Hartley observing campaign
Martin Crow 11 Jul 2023 14:56 UTC
Hi Nick
Please add me for this campaign.
Kind regards
Martin
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> On 10 Jul 2023, at 23:42, Nick James <ndj@nickdjames.com> wrote:
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> Comet 103P/Hartley is an unusual object which was visited by the EPOXI spacecraft in 2010. At that time the Italian CARA group produced some very important ground-based observations to support the space mission.
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> Giannantonio Milani of CARA has proposed a cooperation between CARA and the BAA to observe this year's return. We are still working out details of how the collection of images and analysis would be performed but I'd be like to how many observers would be interested in taking part in this campaign.
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> Please have a read of the details here:
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> https://britastro.org/section_news_item/comet-103p-hartley-observing-campaign
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> If you are interested in being involved please email me directly and I'll let you know as soon as we have details of the analysis approach. You can start imaging the comet now, although it is currently around 17th mag and in the morning sky. It should brighten fairly quickly and it will become more accesible as the nights lengthen into Autumn.
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> Nick.
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