[BAA Comets] Comet Section Officers

[Peter Carson]

Hi All,
I echo Tony and Denis's comments and sentiments.
The information contained in the Projcet Alcock site was what got me through 
my early learning of Astrometrica and is what assisted me in getting my MPC 
observatory code. Without this info and Roger's swift and detailed response 
to the various snags I encountered along the way I would have given up long 
ago.
Whilst I'm in thanking mode I must say that Denis's infectious enthusiasm 
for practical comet observing is what gets me up at 3am on a frosty January 
night to be one of the first to record and measure a feeble 17th mag newly 
discovered comet. (Taryna, my wife, may not go along with thanking Denis 
when I get back in bed and want to warm up my frozen feet!)

All the best
Peter


-----Original Message----- 
From: denis buczynski
Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2017 2:20 PM
To: BAA Comets discussion list
Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] Comet Section Officers

I agree with you Tony.Let us hope Roger will allow the site info to be 
transferred to another resource for us to access. I too used aspects of the 
instructions to remind me how to do things when I had forgotten how to.
Denis


      From: Tony Angel <tony_angel_uk at hotmail.com>
To: BAA Comets discussion list <comets-disc at lists.britastro.org>
Cc: RICHARD MILES <rmiles.btee at btinternet.com>
Sent: Sunday, 3 September 2017, 14:18
Subject: Re: [BAA Comets] Comet Section Officers


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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