I received the following information from David Dunham of the International Occultation and Timing Association, and want to share it with you. Ed Flaspoehler,...
Rich Willis of the RASC in Victoria, Canada, semt me the following star party announcement. I am posting it for your information. I hope some of you may be...
Hello All, My name is John and I am a newbie that recently got a 8 inch Dob. I love reading up on my new hobby and would appreciate any and all of the best...
A new group has just been created for discussions specific to the new Meade "Deep Sky Imager" CCD camera. The group, hosted at Yahoo!Groups, is found at: ...
Just a perception note: Normally I think of an asteroid as hitting the Earth. But is that always true? Consider that Toutatis is passing the Earth going in...
Usually rumors have the vestiges of a grain of truth in them that started the entire rumor, so in an effort to find that grain of truth I'll make this inquiry:...
I've uploaded to the Yahoo files a plot of Toutatis' magnitude verses date. The plot does not look as expected. The file/plot is in pdf format to make it...
I agree. I think the earth would be cited with "tailgating" in this instance. Just kidding, but it is an interesting point; from our frame of reference, we ...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the Quad-A group. File : /Q1.pdf Uploaded...
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Thanks for the reply Charlie. I thought though, that you were in Texas. Assuming that you are right on this ;), It would be nice to have Fla avoid a few...
I have uploaded a graphic to the files section "Path Speed" that provides what I now think is the speed of Toutatis that will be determined by measuring the...
Hi Eugene I used to live in Dallas, but transferred to our regional office in Orlando Fl (center lane of hurricane alley), so that we could be caregivers to my...
Out of curiosity about the effects of atmospheric refraction on our mini-project, I made a study to see the effects before we started our observations....
I believe I have it figured out .... I've uploaded a 3 page pdf file to the yahoo files section so that you all can see, and hopefully agree, on what I found....
I have uploaded a pdf file to the AAAA files of Yahoo, "Toutatis movement.pdf". It is a chart of the movement of the asteroid, in terms of degrees of...
Hi Eugene, I've been looking at your chart. I have also gone to the IAU website to download the exact coordinates where Toutatis will be located as seen from ...
I also just noticed that the information that the IAU website generated for me also provides the movement of the asteroid in "/minute . . .which is the same as...
I began to investigate the projections for the path of Toutatis, and decided to roll the clock back a bit. I used an old set of orbit parameters and then...
Your logic is right: To see the movement in the eyepiece early in the month is a an exercise in futility!! I came to that conclusion the other night. I first...
Thank you, Eugene. I'm glad I'm on the right track. The new plan makes more sense to me. It will require a few days of observing the asteroid. I took...
I too have some concerns, I'm not assured of success. If nothing else we could get clouded out and have no chance to make observations at all. Project...
At this time I have growing suspicion that the positions produced by the MPC do not take into account an effect, so they may show the asteroid about 4 ...
Hello Eugene, We are located at 22 deg North Latitude on the other side of the globe ;-). I guess slightly better placed for the encounter. I have downloaded...
Do for me? Well yes, you and all observers for Project Toutatis. I've yet another idea to try. It's a long shot (I mean an adder to the project that I do not...
I'm picking up what I believe to be Toutatis about 6 arc-minutes away from the JPL and MPC predicted positions ( roughly 3 arc-minutes lower (more negative)...
I've received a private e-mail from one AAAA member that they may have spotted Toutatis. I'm working on my observations, but seem to have picked it up three...
The MPC got back to me, and the reason for the offset is parallax -- at least that is the their thoughts. They have offered to examine the data that I have...
Well, there is good news and bad news.... 1. It's cloudy here 2. My rough calculations of the parallax factor are not enough to explain the offsets that I saw....
Well Eugene, I did not have much luck with Toutatis. It is a worm burner even this far South, and the tree line and low haze were not very accomodating. But,...
