• Geisei's 60cm reflector and computers are now restored On the evening of November 30, Mr. Kenji Muraoka and Mr. Shigeo Shimomoto came to repair the PCs. Mr. Muraoka replaced the CD-ROM drive on the MS-DOS PC which is used for cometary calculations. The GSC star charts are usable now again. The other computer , a Windows PC, had a hard disk problem which made the Comet Section's HP difficult to read. Thanks to Mr. Shimomoto's time-consuming work, it is now back to normal. I am grateful to both gentlemen. Geisei's 60cm reflector was temporarily repaired with substitute replacement parts. As a result, fast slewing in declination has become very slow and the gear noise very loud. However, I may have to live with these problems for a while. Calculations of the objects observed soon after the repairs were made using GSC. Please replace the previous data of C/2001 Q4 with today's data. 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT is very faint photographically. It may be much brighter in CCD images. 18D/Perrine-Mrkos will be last observed in December this time around. C/2001 Q4(NEAT) 2002UT R.A (2000) Decl. m1 Nov. 25.50021 2 12 22.88 -41 27 32.7 15.5 372 25.51146 2 12 22.43 -41 27 33.8 372 25.52153 2 12 21.94 -41 27 34.7 372 26.57847 2 11 35.79 -41 28 04.4 372 26.58646 2 11 35.41 -41 28 03.3 372 28.49688 2 10 13.03 -41 28 27.6 372 28.54132 2 10 11.12 -41 28 27.8 372 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT 2002UT R.A (2000) Decl. m1 Nov. 26.48958 1 36 41.59 +17 21 16.3 19.5 372 |
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