Hey Astro Heads!
Quess who we ran into up at Siding Springs? Oh yea, the one and only Rob McNaught aka "Comet-Man!"
Check out all Rob has found to date, here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_McNaught
Rob gave us a full tour of the Uppsala Southern Schmidt Telescope (0.5 m)!
See:
http://www.mso.anu.edu.au/~rmn/
We even went into his office to see a wall of computers used for Image storage and a run down on the software used to "blink" thru' all those images!
Image #1. Rob's igloo (Humphreys)
Image #2. Rob's 20 inch scope with CCD (Humphreys)
Image #3. Rob showing the CCD (Humphreys)
Image #4. Rob's bank of computers (Humphreys)
Image #5. Rob at his desk (Humphreys)
Image #6. Comet McNaught mosaic from both hemispheres (Fulle & Deiries)
Image #7. All Sky view of Comet McNaught (Tse)
Image #8. Comet P1 in Aurora Australis (Yoneto)
Aloha, Lance aka "abellhunter"
http://www.anzaobservatory.com
...is Moving to the Southern Hemisphere any ideas, suggestions or
comments?
humphreys@greencafe.com