[BAA Comets] Comet Section Officers

[Tony Angel]

Hi,

First let me say my own big thank you to Roger for his help and especially his Project Alcock Site.  If it was not for the technical advice from Roger, his Site and Richard Miles, plus the helpful nagging from Denis I am not sure that I would have stayed the course with comets, the most complex of observing objects.

The Project Alcock Site is already down 😞. I am going to make a plea, that I hope will be taken up by others, that the whole site is resurrected soonest in total and not just some articles from it. It is much too important a tool to be lost to us. I wish I had known about this in advance so that I could have taken a copy of all the pages. It is one of a few sites that I have nailed to each of my browsers.

Best Wishes, especially to Roger,

Tony.

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From: Comets-disc <comets-disc-bounces at lists.britastro.org> on behalf of Nick James <ndj at nickdjames.com>
Sent: 03 September 2017 10:49
To: BAA Comets discussion list
Subject: [BAA Comets] Comet Section Officers

Morning all,

Roger Dymock, our outreach and mentoring coordinator has asked to step
down from that role with immediate effect. Roger has told me that his
astronomical interests are now focussed on exoplanet work.

I would like to thank Roger for the support he has given me over the
past few years. He has been one of the few people from the section who
has been submitting total comet magnitudes estimated using images from
remote telescopes. This is a complex and difficult subject and Roger is
one of the few people who have taken this on, helping others with his
knowledge.

Roger also maintained the Project Alcock website which contained notes
and guides on many different aspects of practical comet observing and
imaging. This site is no longer active but I hope, with Roger's
agreement, to move some of the articles to the main comet section
website over the next few months.

I'm sure that we all wish Roger well with his exoplanet work and hope
that comets will still be on his target list every now and again.

If anyone would like to take up the outreach and mentoring role please
contact me directly off list.

Nick James, Director.

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