Tempel 1 anybody?

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woah, intro abit, RP means republic polytechnic, there have a astro club which i am in charge in....so hope u guys get familiar with the 'RP' term bah. ^.^

really hope my seniors can give me guidance/updates in upcomming astronomy event ^.^
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not an easy object to find la, i scanned ard the area at tuas yesterday. did not see any extended object. i guess better skies are needed to actually see it. richard may try again later, let's wait for his good news.

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too cloudy in singapore to see anything.
judging from the image from hubble, looks very unspectacular in earth-based telescopes...
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not an easy object to find la, i scanned ard the area at tuas yesterday. did not see any extended object. i guess better skies are needed to actually see it. richard may try again later, let's wait for his good news.
On Sunday night, David brought Mooey & I to Tuas to try searching for that comet, but due to the thin high clouds, i could not find it with the C8 & 30mm st-80 (50x, 80 deg app. field) or 9x50 finder even after a few attempts of staring at the exact field with averted vision. In fact, the telescope limiting magnitude was worse than mag 8 thru the scope, so even faint stars were not visible. Last night was very cloudy from 8-10pm, so i did not try. Maybe i will try again tonight if the weather is clear.
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From my astro software, the expected magnitude of Tempel 1 is 9.65. I usually do not bother unless the sky is absolutely clear, unless I wanted to capture the flash during the collison and I have a Hubble: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsde ... s/2005/17/

Or watch it here: http://www.noao.edu/news/deep-impact/


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Hi folks:

Keep trying... Just need a break in the cloud at the right place...

I read that the increase in brightness is estimated to be ~10 times. This is an magnitude brightening up of 2.5 [using ( m1-m2)= -2.5log10( 10)] or 9.9-2.5=+7.4 mag - not sure the size though...

Jul3 - 75mm/f.14+mintron, 11pm from my window LM 8.9 stellar
Jul4 - tried 8:30pm - clouded out
Jul5 - ??


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hm.....didn't see anything with my binoculars. Well, nowaday skies are bad. haii,sad.
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not likely to be seen with small binos, this thing is mag 9.7. even with a 8" scope it's not easy.

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icic, hm...so after this, when can we see tempel again?
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