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<DIV><FONT color=#008080 size=4 face=Century>Nice photo Richard
(Denis).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#008080 size=4 face=Century>C/1973 E1 (Kohoutek) was the first
comet that I observed. I well remember a group of ~6 of us <FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt">Gisborne Astronomical Society (New Zealand) junior
members sitting on the society observatory parapet with 10 x 50 binoculars and
enjoying <FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 13.6pt">Kohoutek sporting a nice tail as it sat
below Corvus in the dawn sky in early December 1973. We had just spent all night
meteor observing – the Puppid-Velids and then the early Geminids from memory.
>From (a 45-year old) memory <FONT style="COLOR: #008080" size=4
face=Century>C/1973 E1 </FONT>was about mag 6 and had a ~1 degree tail. The
sight of this lone comet sitting in the emptiness of space was what propelled me
into my interest in comets... </FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 13.6pt">I’m attaching a GUIDE 9.1 screen shot of <FONT
style="FONT-SIZE: 13.6pt">Kohoutek as when you captured it (if it’s not
stripped). The bright ‘star’ just above the horison is Jupiter. Of note is that
our favourite comet, 29P (Schwassmann-Wachmann), is sitting 4.5 degrees east of
<FONT style="COLOR: #008080" size=4 face=Century>C/1973 E1 (too faint to be seen
of course). </FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 13.6pt">Cheers</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV><FONT
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color=#008080>==============================<BR>John Drummond, Possum
Observatory, IAU Code E94, Gisborne, New Zealand (177d 53' E, 38d 38'
S)<BR>Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand president -
www.rasnz.org.nz<BR>Gisborne Astronomical Society president -
www.astrogas.co.nz<BR>GAS Facebook - www.facebook.com/gisbornecosmos<BR>Email:
john_drummond@xtra.co.nz</FONT></FONT>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=rmiles.btee@btinternet.com
href="mailto:rmiles.btee@btinternet.com">Richard Miles</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 21, 2018 10:05 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=buczynski8166@btinternet.com
href="mailto:buczynski8166@btinternet.com">Denis Buczynski</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=comets-disc@lists.britastro.org
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [BAA Comets] Image of Comet C/1973 E1
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style='FONT-SIZE: small; TEXT-DECORATION: none; FONT-FAMILY: "Calibri"; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; COLOR: #000000; FONT-STYLE: normal; DISPLAY: inline'>Denis,<BR><BR>Have
been having a root around in the garage ...<BR><BR>For the archive, here is my
first photograph of a comet: Kohoutek.<BR>It was snapped on 1974 January 10
using an undriven mount. The original <BR>frame is cropped in this image.<BR>The
person shown in silhouette was Robert Richardson, recently retired as a
<BR>professor in the Physics Dept of the University of Bristol.<BR><BR>I still
have the negatives. In fact I have 4 frames with the previous three <BR>being
10-sec exposures, so it may be worth scanning them and co-adding to <BR>enhance
the appearance of the comet's tail.<BR>Must also find my simple drawings of
comets made prior to this one.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR>Richard<BR>
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