[BAA-ebulletin 00646] Comet Section newsletter

[BAA electronic bulletins service]

The 2012 January edition of "The Comet's Tale", the newsletter of the 
Comet Section, is now available for download on the Section web page at 
http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/tail31.pdf  [5Mb].  This contains a review 
of the comets of and observed in 2011, an update of the predictions for 
2012, two articles by Roger Dymock and excerpts from BAA Journals of 50 
and 100 years ago.  For further updates on comets see the main Section 
page at http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds 

Updates are likely to be restricted between the end of January and mid 
February as communications at my present location are likely to be 
disrupted when our communications dome is moved.  I just hope that 
another sungrazing comet doesn't arrive during the period.

For UK observers the best comet at the moment is still 2009 P1 
(Garradd), which will remain about 7th magnitude for several more 
weeks.  Do send in your observations to cometobs [at] britastro.org, 
whether they are visual reports or images, or indeed reports of 
astrometry or orbit computation.

Jonathan Shanklin
j.shanklin [at] bas.ac.uk
Director, Comet Section
Halley, Antarctica
2012 January 16

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