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Reports from Geisei Observatory <June 15, 2006>


73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 and C/2006 L2 (McNaught)

    The following are the latest observations made at Geisei despite increasing rainy days:
    Lately, Mr. McNaught has discovered many comets in the southern sky. Mr. Akira Kawazoe, a staff member of Geisei Observatory, met him at Perth about 15 years ago. Mr. Kawazoe found Mr. Candy (BAA) in good health and was surprised that he knew a lot about me.

    C/2006 L2 (McNaught) is not very bright. Fog troubled me a lot that night. The sky over Mt. Teiyama looked hazy like mirage in the distance, a very unusual sight.
0073P      b   2006 05 31.77222 00 52 47.61 -05 21 32.4           9.7 T      372
0073P      c   2006 05 31.76840 00 45 43.10 -06 17 01.3           8.9 T      372
0073P      c   2006 06 06.77743 01 08 19.07 -08 51 46.9          11.4 T      372
0073P      c   2006 06 06.77986 01 08 19.48 -08 51 49.7                      372
    CK06L020   2006 06 15.55347 14 39 39.74 -37 35 35.6          14.5 T      372
    I am anxious to know how Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 looks now, which is moving southward in early morning skies. When I was walking down the hill after the moon rose, a tanuki, an Asian raccoon-like dog, ran across the road into the valley. The deep valley is always lively with howls and cries of animals. Jupiter was shining usually brightly overhead.


Copyright (C) 2006 Tsutomu Seki.