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Comet Resources Comet Books Cometography: a Catalog of Comets, by Gary Kronk APPENDIX Comet Resources Comet Books Cometography: A Catalog of Comets, by Gary Kronk. Cometography Volume 1. Ancient – 1799. Cambridge University Press 1999. ISBN-13: 978-0521585040. Cometography Volume 2. 1800 – 1899. Cambridge University Press 2003. ISBN-13: 978-0521585057. Cometography Volume 3. 1900 – 1932. Cambridge University Press 2007. ISBN-13: 978-0521585064. Cometography Volume 4. 1933 – 1959. Cambridge University Press 2008. ISBN-13: 978-0521585071. Cometography Volume 5. 1960 – 1982. Cambridge University Press 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0521872263. David Levy's Guide to Observing and Discovering Comets. Cambridge University Press 2003. ISBN-13: 978-0521520515. The Greatest Comets in History: Broom Stars and Celestial Scimitars by David Seargent. Springer. ISBN-13: 978-0387095127. 2008. Comets: A Chronological History of Observation, Science, Myth, and Folklore by Donald K. Yeomans. John Wiley & Sons 1991. ISBN-13: 978-0471610113. Great Comets by Robert Burnham. Cambridge University Press 2000. ISBN-13: 978-0521646000. 383 384 Appendix Comets and How to Observe Them by Richard Schmude. Springer 2010. ISBN-13: 978-1441957894. Observing Comets by Nick James and Gerald North. Springer 2002. ISBN-13: 978-1852335571. Comets, Popular Culture, and the Birth of Modern Cosmology by Sara Schechner Genuth. Princeton University Press 1999. ISBN-13: ­978-0691009254. Fire in the Sky: Comets and Meteors, the Decisive Centuries in British Art and Science by Olson and Pasachoff. Cambridge University Press 1999. ISBN-13: 978-0521663595. Comets II (University of Arizona Space Science Series) by ­Festou, Keller and Weaver. University of Arizona Press 2004. ISBN-13: ­978-0816524501. Planetarium/Telescope Control Software Guide 8.0 – http://www.projectpluto.com/ The Sky X – http://www.bisque.com/sc/pages/TheSkyXFamily.aspx Maxim DL – http://www.cyanogen.com/maxim_main.php Orbital Elements for Popular Planetarium Software Packages IAU site – http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/Ephemerides/Comets/ SoftwareComets.html Comet Orbits – http://jcometobs.web.fc2.com/ Comet Astrometry/Photometry/ Twilight Software Astrometrica – http://www.astrometrica.at/ Comet for Windows – http://www.aerith.net/project/comet.html Focas II (Spanish) – http://astrosurf.com/cometas-obs/_Articulos/ Focas/Focas.htm CmtWin – http://www.inourfamily.com/sites/cmtwin/ GraphDark – http://www.rfleet.clara.net/graphdark/download.htm Image Processing Software AIP4Win – http://www.willbell.com/aip/index.htm CCDSoft – http://www.bisque.com/sc/shops/store/CCDSoftWin2.aspx Appendix 385 IRIS – http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/us/iris/iris.htm Maxim DL – http://www.cyanogen.com/maxim_main.php Astroart – http://www.msb-astroart.com/ Images Plus – http://www.mlunsold.com/ Photoshop – http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Paint Shop Pro – http://www.corel.com Registax – http://www.astronomie.be/registax/ Deep Sky Stacker – http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/ CCD Cameras and DSLRs SBIG – http://www.sbig.com/ Starlight Xpress – http://www.starlight-xpress.co.uk/ Apogee – http://www.ccd.com/astronomy.html QSI – http://www.qsimaging.com/ QHY – http://www.qhyccd.com/ Atik – http://www.atik-cameras.com/ Audine project – http://www.astrosurf.com/audine/English/ index_en.htm Canon DSLRs – http://www.canon.com/eos-d/ Nikon – http://imaging.nikon.com/products/imaging/index.htm Lumicon Swan Band Comet Filters http://www.lumicon.com/telescope-accessories-list. php?cid=17&cn=Comet+Filters Optical Tube Assemblies/Astrographs Orion Optics AG – http://www.orionoptics.co.uk/AG/agrange.html Takahashi – http://www.takahashiamerica.com/ Astrosysteme Austria – http://www.astrosysteme.at/eng/astrographs.html Celestron Edge HD – http://www.celestron.com/c3/page. php?PageID=389 RCOS – http://www.rcopticalsystems.com/ Planewave – http://www.planewaveinstruments.com/ Astro Optik – http://www.astrooptik.com/ Coma Correctors TeleVue Paracorr – http://www.televue.co.uk/paracorr.htm 386 Appendix Telescope Mountings Paramount ME – http://www.bisque.com/sc/pages/Paramount-ME.aspx Astrophysics – http://www.astro-physics.com/ Astrotrac (portable) – http://www.astrotrac.com/ Losmandy – http://www.losmandy.com/ Gemini G42 – http://www.astronomy.hu/g42.htm 10micron – http://www.10micron.com/english/homepage-eng.htm Celestron CGE Pro – http://www.celestron.com/c3/product. php?ProdID=549 Takahashi – http://www.takahashiamerica.com/ Vixen – http://www.vixenoptics.com/mounts.htm ASA direct drive – http://www.astrosysteme.at/eng/mounts.html Periodic error data – http://demeautis.christophe.free.fr/ep/pe.htm Comet Data Websites Ephemerides – http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/Ephemerides/ Comets/ NEO Confirmation Page – http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/NEO/ ToConfirm.html NEO and Comet checker – http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/~cgi/ CheckNEOCMT IAU Ephemeris Service – http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/ MPEph/MPEph.html Bright comets weekly – http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html Comet/deep sky encounters – http://www.aerith.net/comet/rendezvous/ current.html Comet recovery targets – http://www.aerith.net/comet/recovery.html Astrosite Groningen – http://www.shopplaza.nl/astro/ Professional Patrol Websites Catalina Sky Survey – http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/css/ LINEAR – http://www.ll.mit.edu/mission/space/linear/ Siding Spring Survey – http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/css/ Spacewatch – http://spacewatch.lpl.arizona.edu/ LONEOS – http://www.lowell.edu/users/elgb/loneos_disc.html SOHO sungrazers – http://sungrazer.nrl.navy.mil/ Pan-STARRS – http://pan-starrs.ifa.hawaii.edu/public/ Large Synoptic Survey Telescope – http://www.lsst.org/lsst Appendix 387 Professional Patrol Sky Coverage http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/~cgi/SkyCoverage.html Comet Observer Groups on Yahoo! Comets mailing list – http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/comets-ml/ Comet images – http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Comet-Images/ Comet observing – http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/CometObs/ Comet chasing – http://tech.dir.groups.yahoo.com/group/CometChasing/ Spanish comet observers – http://es.groups.yahoo.com/group/Cometas_Obs/ Organizations BAA Comet Section – http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/ The Astronomer Comets page – http://www.theastronomer.org/ comets.html International Comet Quarterly – http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/icq/ icq.html Mark Kidger’s Spanish page – http://www.observadores-cometas.com/ U.A.I. Sezione Comete (Italy) – http://comete.uai.it/ CARA project (Italy) – http://cara.uai.it/ ALPO – http://alpo-astronomy.org/ VdS-Fachgruppe Kometen – http://kometen.fg-vds.de/fgk_hpe.htm Astrosurf comet observations – http://astrosurf.com/cometas-obs/ T3 project – http://asteroidi.uai.it/t3.htm Liada Comets Section – http://cometobservations.freeservers.com/ Comet Enthusiasts’ Personal Sites Michael Jäger – http://www.cometpieces.at/ Rolando Ligustri – http://picasaweb.google.com/astroligu/ CometeDiRolandoLigustriCASTItalia# Gary Kronk’s Cometography – http://cometography.com/ Gerald Rhemann – http://www.astrostudio.at/all.php Peter Birtwhistle – http://www.birtwhistle.org/ Tsutomu Seki – http://www.comet-web.net/~tsutomu-seki/ Seiichi Yoshida – http://www.aerith.net/ Maik Meyer’s pages – http://www.comethunter.de/ Kazuo Kinoshita – http://jcometobs.web.fc2.com/ Gustavo Muler – http://astrosurf.com/nazaret/cometas.shtml Terry Lovejoy – http://www.pbase.com/terrylovejoy/comet_photos 388 Appendix Stefan Beck – http://www.cometchaser.de/comets.html Stefan Beck’s observer list – http://www.cometchaser.de/observers/ country.html David Levy – http://www.jarnac.org/ Bernhard Häusler – http://www.amication.de/Bernhards_Comet_ Project/ Michael Mattiazzo – http://members.westnet.com.au/mmatti/sc.htm Martin Mobberley – http://martinmobberley.co.uk/ Remanzacco blog – http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/ Crni Vrh Observatory – http://www.observatorij.org/ Rezman Observatory – http://www.rezman-obs.si/ Clay Sherrod (ASO) – http://www.arksky.org/ Johannes Schedler – http://panther-observatory.com/comets.htm Konrad Horn – http://www.konradhorn.de/ John Drummond – http://www.possumobservatory.co.nz/ Juan Antonio Henríquez Santana – http://atlante.teobaldopower.org/ Index A Biesecker, Doug, 102, 211 Alcock, George, 101, 102, 113, 128, 129, 185, Binoculars, Fujinon, 68, 105, 109, 149, 186 252, 359 Birtwhistle, Peter, 200, 221–226 Andromeda galaxy, 191, 241, 265 Bobrovnikoff method, 17, 362 Anti-tail, 9–10, 21–22, 60, 168 Bopp, Thomas, 72, 107, 124, 145, 147 Araki, 113 Borrelly, Comet, 5 Arend-Roland, 60–62 Bouma, Reinder, 150 Astrometrica, 135–137, 139, 192, 223, 347, Bradfield, Comet C/2004 F4, 113, 114, 352–353, 370, 371, 384 164, 165 Astrometry, 133, 135–138, 188, 221, 223, 339, 347, Bradfield, William, 113, 114, 164, 165 351, 352, 372, 376 Broughton, Comets Astrophysics, 255, 327, 328, 376, 386 C/2006 OF2, 117, 166, 234 Astrosysteme Austria (ASA), 246, 316, 328, 334, P/2005 T5, 116, 166, 324 368, 385 Broughton, John, 116, 117, 120, 322–325 Atmospheric extinction, 145, 362 Bryssink, Eric, 316, 371–372 Austin, Comet, 28, 76, 381 Buil, Christian, 249, 265, 270, 292, 308 Austin, Rodney, 149 C B Carboni, Noel, 286, 313 Barnard, Edward Emerson, 21, 178, 202, 241 CBAT. See Central Bureau for Astronomical Bell, Charles, 378–380 Telegrams Bell, Graham, 105 Centaur, 28, 98, 194, 219, 220 Bennett, Comet, 64–66 Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams Benson, William Kwong Yeung, 106 (CBAT), 110, 125, 134, 142–145, 147, 172, Berry, Richard, 140, 265, 281, 292, 294, 182, 184, 192, 193, 227 304, 346 Ceravolo, Peter, 70 Beshore, Ed, 94 Chen, Tao, 119, 210 Biela, Comet, 241
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