[BAA Comets] BAA comet image archive

Padma Yanamandra-Fisher padmayf at gmail.com
Wed Oct 30 14:44:12 GMT 2019


Thanks, Nick and Martin! Is there some help/partnership we can do to help
complete this noteworthy project?

Thanks,
Padma

On Wednesday, October 30, 2019, Ronan Newman <ronan.newman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very nice Nick
>
> On Wed 30 Oct 2019, 08:52 Nick James, <ndj at nickdjames.com> wrote:
>
>> Martin Mobberley has been doing a fantastic job of scanning the section
>> print archive. There are boxes and boxes of photographic prints in our
>> archive, some of which have not seen the light of day for 60 years or
>> more, and which we are gradually placing on the web.
>>
>> One comet with particularly good coverage so far is 1956r1 Arend-Roland.
>> Have a look at the great set of shots here:
>>
>> http://www.britastro.org/cometobs/1956r1/thumbnails.html
>>
>> You might need to refresh the page if you have been there recently.
>> Those were the days when comet photography, even of bright comets, was
>> very challenging and the results from 1957 are pretty amazing.
>>
>> My thanks to Martin for doing this job for us. There are many more old
>> prints left to do but plenty have been scanned already. It's worth a
>> search around the archive to find them.
>>
>> Nick James, Director.
>>
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Padma A. Yanamandra-Fisher
Senior Research Scientist
Space Science Institute
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