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Here is a limited list of resources to help you pursue your study of comets and the techniques and equipment necessary to observe them. By making use of your local library, browsing publishers catalogues and the adverts for equipment suppliers, perusing astronomical magazines and periodicals and, above all, by surfing the Internet while making use of a search engine such as Google.com, you can uncover plenty more!
Books Advanced Amateur Astronomy, Gerald North, Cambridge
University Press, 1997. Astronomical Equipment for Amateurs, Martin Mobberley,
Springer-Verlag, 1999. CCD Astronomy: Construction and use of a CCD camera,
Christian Buil, Willmann-Bell, 1991. The Art and Science of CCD Astronomy, edited by David
Ratledge, Springer-Verlag, 1997. Introduction to Comets, J.C. Brandt and Robert C. Chapman,
Cambridge University Press, 1983. Comets, Meteors and Asteroids, John Man, BBC Consumer
Publishing, 2001. Comet Science, Therese Encrenaz, Cambridge University
Press, 2000. Great Comets, Robert Burnham, Cambridge University Press,
2000. Comets: Creators and Destroyers, David Levy, Touchstone
Books, 1998. The Comet Hale-Bopp, Robert Burnham, Cambridge Uni
versity Press, 1997.
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Publications of astronomical organizations
(contact web addresses given further on)
ICQ Guide to Observing Comets, edited by Dan Green. BAA Comet Section Observing Guide, edited by Jonathan
Shanklin.
Software Image processing programs
Astroart Mira AIPWIN Maxim DL IRIS Starlink IRAF
http://www.msb-astroart.com/down en.htm http://www.axres.com/ http://www. willbell.com/aip4win/ AlP .htm http://www.cyanogen.com http:// astrosurf.com/buil/us/iris/iris.htm http://star-www.rl.ac.uk! http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf-homepage.html
Observation planning
Guide Grafdark
JPL horizons Heavens above Observable comets
The Sky
http://www.projectpluto.com http://www.naas.btinternet.co.uk! grafdark.htm http:// ssd. jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.html http://www.heavens-above.com http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/ Ephemerides/Comets/index.html http://www.bisque.com/Products/ TheSky/TheSky.asp
Orbit computation and integration
Mercury Orbfit N-body integrators
http:// star.arm.ac. uk! -jec/home.html http://newton.dm. unipi.it/ orbfit http://www.scitec.auckland.ac.nz/- sharp/ n-body integrators/
Miscellaneous
MPEG encoders http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/frame/ research/mpeglmpeg__encode.html http://www.mpeg.org
Observing Comets
Appendix 231
NTP time clients http://www.astrosurf.com/astropc/ timememo/ http:/ /www.ntp.org
CCD cameras Commercial cameras
Starlight XPress SBIG Apogee
http:/ /www.starlight -xpress.co.uk/ http:/ /www.sbig.com http:/ /www.apogee-ccd.com/
Do-it-yourself cameras
Au dine Cookbook
http://astrosurf.com/audine/ http:/ /www.wvi.com/ -rberry/ cookbook.htm
Spectroscopy
Buil
Spectr'aude
Maurice Gavin
http://astrosurf.com/buil/us/spel/ spectro l.htm http:/ I astrosurf.com/buil/us/ spectro8/ spaude us.htm http:/ /www.astroman.fsnet.co. uk! spectro.htm
Comet information
Catalog of cometary orbits SOHO discoveries
CBAT computer service
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/services/ CCat.html http://www. ph. u-net.com/ comets/ comet-links.htm http:/ I cfa-www .harvard.edu/iau/ services/ CS.html
Astronomical alert services
lAU circulars http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/services/ Subscriptions.html
TA circulars http://www.theastronomer.org/ subscription.html
Sky and Telescope http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/ proamcollab/astroalert
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Useful hardware
Micropositioners http://www.catalog.coherentinc.com
Comet images on the web
Wil Milan
Herman Mikuz Terry Lovejoy
Gerald Rhemann JPL comet page The Astronomer
http://www.astrophotographer.com/ cometphotos.html http://www.fiz.uni -lj.si/ astro/ comets/ http:/ /users.bigpond.net.au/ southern/ southern.htm http:/ /www.astrostudio.at/ defaultiE.htm http:/ /encke.jpl.nasa.gov/ http:/ /www.theastronomer.org/ comets.html
Miscellaneous
Ceravolo video
3D free-fusion
Hypered film
http:/ /www.andromedasoftware.com/ cd240.htm http:/ /www.slc.edu/ -ebj/sight mind/ stereo/free fusion.html http:/ /www.lumicon.com
Astronomical organizations
The Astronomer http://www.theastronomer.org BAA comet section http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/-jds/ ALPO comet http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/-rhill/alpo/ section comet.html German comet sect. http://www.fg-kometen.de/fgk, hpe.htm ICQ http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/icq/icq.html
Observing Comets
Index
achromatic Ramsden eyepiece see eyepieces
Alcock, George 15, 73 anti-tail 28, 30 aphelion, definition of 13 Aquarid meteors 32 Araki, Genichi 15 Arbour, Ron 157 Arend-Roland, comet see comets Aristotle 5-7 Asher, David 131 astrometry 188-192 atmospheric extinction 197-198 Austin, comet see comets
barndoor mount 107-110 Bathers, comet see comets Battle of Hastings 3 Bennett, comet see comets Bessel, Friedrich 31 Biela, comet see comets Biela, Wilhelm von 30-32 Bielid meteors 31 binoculars 43, 61-64 Blasich, P. 198 Bobrovnikoff method 80-82 Bopp, Thomas 215 Borrelly, comet see comets Bradfield, comet see comets Bradfield, William 15 Brahe, Tycho 7-9 brightness estimates 80-82 Brorsen-Metcalf, comet see comets Buczynski, Denis 103, 141, 222, 223 Buil, Christian 175, 191, 196 Bullen, Robert 20-22, 75 Burnham, comet see comets
calibration frames 161 Carter, Brian 36 CCDs 65, 96-107, 145-148,
153-167, 187, 213-215, 224 Ceravolo, Peter 117-118 Charge-Coupled Devices see CCDs Charon 129 coma (optical aberration) 57-58,
148 comet orbits 8-14, 41, 120-132,
206-207, 215-217 cometary chemistry, introduction
to 24-25, 28 cometary coma, introduction to 18,
19, 22-25, 71-72, 78
cometary debris 29-36 cometary false nucleus,
introduction to 20, 22-25, 72 cometary head, introduction to 2,
18, 19, 71, 80 cometary jets, introduction to
19-22, 72 cometary nucleus, introduction
to 19-22, 71-72 cometary shells, introduction
to 19-22, 72 cometary tails, introduction to 2,
18, 19, 25-28, 78, 80 comets -IP/Halley 9-10,12, 13, 16, 32,
36-39, 121, 122 -2P/Encke 15, 16 -3D/Biela 30-32 -9P/Tempel I 225 -19P/Borrelly 39-40 -21P/Giacobini-Zinner 37 -23P/Brorson-Metcalf 5 -29P/Schwassman-Wachmann I
198, 224 -46P/Wirtanen 225, 226 -SIP/Harrington 199 -SSP/Temple-Tuttle 32, 128, 129,
130 -81P/Wild 2 225 -96P/Machholz 142 -109P/Swift-Tuttle 9 -122P/deVico 103, 153 -C/1956 Rl Arend-Roland 2, 29,
149 -C/1959 Yl Burnham 3 -C/1969 T1 Tago-Sato-Kosaka 28 -C/1969 Yl Bennett 4, 14, 16, 28 -C/1983 H1 IRAS-Araki-Alcock
14, 16, 110-111 -C/1987 P1 Bradfield 6, 15, 16, 110 -C/1989 XI Austin 7 -C/1990 K1 Levy 8 -C/1995 01 Hale-Bopp 4, 16,
20-22, 27, 36, 66, 75-77, 80, 93, 117, 145, 151, 152, 169, 170-172, 183, 205, 215-225
-C/1995 Y1 Hyakutake 206 -C/1996 B2 Hyakutake 10-11, 16,
27, 36, 66, 80, 90, 95, 105, 106, 108, 112, 115, 116, 138, 184-185, 205-215
-C/1999 S4 LINEAR 137, 140, 195, 199
-C/2000 W1 Utsonomiya-)ones 202
-C/2000 WM1 LINEAR 156, 177-180, 182, 183-184
-C/2001 A2 LINEAR 150, 165-166, 191, 196, 201
-C/2001 Q2 Petriew 202 -C/2002 W2 Bathers 141 -C/2002 C1 Ikeya-Zhang 136 -D/1993 F2 Shoemaker-Levy-9
32-33 computers 119-143
Dahlmark, Lennart 152 dark frame 104, 162-163 DC number see Degree of
Condensation Deep Space probe 39, 40 Degree of Condensation (DC)
77-78, 79 de-rotators 107 detector quantum efficiency (DQE)
see quantum efficiency de Vico, comet see comets discovering/reporting comets
201-203 drawing techniques 71-74
Edgeworth, Kenneth 128 Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt Objects
see Trans-Neptunian Objects Encke, comet see comets epoch, definition of 126 exit pupil 47, 52, 57, 61-62 eyepieces 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 55, 56,
59-61, 62, 67 eye relief 47 eye ring see exit pupil
finder charts 69-71,164-166 flat field 161-162 Fleet, Richard 13 7 formation of Solar System full-well capacity 159
Garradd, Gordon 224 Giacobini-Zinner, comet see
comets Giotto probe 36-39 Great Fire of London 4 Great Plague of London 3-4 Goldsmith, Steve 163
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Hale, Alan 215 Hale-Bopp, comet see comets Halley, comet see comets Halley, Edmond 9 Harrington, comet see comets Hendrie, M. J, 3, 4 Hook, Richard 199 Hubble Guide Star Catalogue 189 Hubble Space Telescope 33 Hyakutake, comet see comets Hyakutake, Yugi 16, 205-206, 214 hydrogen cloud 28-29 hypersensitisation 103-104
lkeya-Zhang, comet see comets image file formats, introduction
to 172-174 image processing 169-186 image-scale, formula for 55, 93 image-stabilised binoculars 64 impact of comets on Earth I,
34-36, 220, 226 impact of comets on jupiter 32-34 Infrared Astronomical Satellite
(1RAS) 14 International Cometary Explorer
probe (ICE) 37 IRAS see Infrared Astronomical
Satellite IRAS-Araki-Alcock, comet see
comets
jones, Albert 202 jovian comet family 31 jupiter 31, 32- 34 Jupiter, comet impact on see
impacts of comets on Jupiter
Keller, Dr H. U. 38 Kellner eyepieces see eyepieces Kepler, johannes 8 Kepler's Laws of Planetary
Motion 8, 11- 13, 22, 120, 123 Kinetic Theory of Gases 23- 24,
29 Kreutz family comets 129-130 Kuiper Belt Objects see
Trans-Neptunian Objects
Leonid meteors 32, 130 Levy, comet see comets Levy, David 32 LINEAR, comet see comets long period comets, definition of
14
Machholz, comet see comets magnification 43, 45-52, SS-56,
59-61, 62-64 magnitude, telescopic limiting
45-46 Marsh, Glyn 106, 116, 211, 222,
223 McNaught, Rob 131, 216 Messier, Charles 31 Mikuz, Herman 95, 112 Milan, Wil ISO Mobberley, Martin 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 106,
III, 116, lSI, 211 Moore, Stewart 90
Nagler eyepieces see eyepieces Newton, Isaac 8 Newton's Law of Gravitation 8, 9,
10, 120 nomenclature, cometary 14-16, 18
offset guiding 156-158 Oort cloud 40, 127, 128 orbits see comet orbits Orbiting Astronomical Observatory
(OA0-2) 28 Orthoscopic eyepieces see eyepieces osculating elements, definition
of 126
Palitzch, johann 10 Panoptic eyepieces see eyepieces Petriew, comet see comets Petriew, Vance 202 perihelion, definition of 13 periodic comets, definition of 13 photography 17, 89-97, 101-105,
147-152 photometry, cometary 192-199 plate constants 188 Platt, Terry 156, 215, 220 Plossyl eyepieces see eyepieces Pluto 41, 129 position angles 82- 87, 157
quantum efficiency 99, 100
Radian eyepieces see eyepieces Ramsden disc see exit pupil reference stars 188 reticle eyepiece 84-86, 156-157 rich-field telescopes 52- 59 Ridley, H. B. 3 Rosetta probe 225, 226
Observing Comets
Sakigake probe 37 Schaefer, Bradley E. 45-46 Schwassman-Wachmann-1, comet
see comets Sekanina, Zdenek 218 Shanklin, jonathan 142 Shoemaker, Caroline 32 Shoemaker, Eugene 32 Shoemaker-Levy-9, comet see
comets SOHO probe and comets 141-143,
212,214 Sostero, G. 198 spectroscopy 17-18, 199-201,
211-212 Stardust probe 225 star-hopping 67, 69-71 Super Wide Angle eyepieces see
eyepieces Sungrazer comets 123 Swift-Tuttle, comet see comets synchrone 222 synchronic bands 221-222 syndyne 222
Tago-Sato-Kosaka, comet see comets
telescopes 43-61 , 145, 147-158 Temple-Tuttle, comet see comets Trans-Neptunian Objects
(TNOs) 41, 128 Tunguska impact 34-36 Tycho see Brahe, Tycho
Ultra Wide Angle eyepieces see eyepieces
Universal Law of Gravitation see Newton's Law of Gravitation
unsharp mask 170 Uraniborg 7-9 Utsunomiya-jones, comet see
comets Utsunomiya, Syogo 202
Vega I probe 37 Vega 2 probe 37 vignetting 58, 106
Waterfield, R.L. 2, 4, 29, 149 Wild-2, comet see comets Wirtanen, comet see comets
Zanotta, Mauro 221
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