http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/ The Majestic Universe Sun, 12 May 2013 17:00:43 GMT Amar Sharma http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5259 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5259 My compilation on Prof Bappu's comet is: http://cs.astronomy.com/asy/b/astronomy/archive/2011/09/22/guest-blog-a-historical-comet-discovery.aspx Till now the Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:30:00 GMT frank s http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5258 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5258 http://htwins.net/scale2/ use left and right arrows Sat, 06 Apr 2013 04:59:24 GMT Akarsh Simha http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5257 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5257 Few days ago, while randomly browsing CloudyNights, I came across a reference to a book by Steinicke and Jakiel. It was in the context of a list of visually Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:15:26 GMT NILESH Vayada http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5256 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5256 Dear Friend, The Amateur Astronomers? Association (Bombay) is happy to announce its participation in the Messier marathon on the night of Saturday, 9 March Mon, 18 Feb 2013 00:54:07 GMT Hemant Hariyani http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5255 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5255 Hello all, Captured this photograph of Orion Nebula from Plano, TX on 14th and 15th Feb. The album consists of the original image, various zoom/crop regions Wed, 02 Jan 2013 05:53:54 GMT Amar Sharma http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5254 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5254 Hello All, The most interesting comet in the sky now is this. It is amongst the 2 brightest and visible comets at 8th mag, the other one being C/2012 F6 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:32:55 GMT Amar A. Sharma http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5253 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5253 There has been a typo of the email ID. I am sorry for the inconvenience. Please note the correct email ID to be sent to is: comet.brothers.india@... or Sat, 29 Dec 2012 05:04:52 GMT Amar A. Sharma http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5252 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5252 Interestingly, this email also comes in the wake of the supposedly bright-comet year 2013 ahead. We have 3 expected bright naked-eye level comets coming in: 1) Sat, 29 Dec 2012 04:10:30 GMT Amar A. Sharma http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5251 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5251 Hello All, This is an official request. Rahul Zota from Gujarat and Me, Amar Sharma from Bangalore are 2 of the most active comet amateurs in our community, Fri, 28 Dec 2012 06:11:24 GMT Suresh Bansal http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5250 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5250 ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Thu, 27 Dec 2012 17:01:43 GMT Amar Sharma http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5249 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5249 Interestingly put. ... Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:45:18 GMT Amar Sharma http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5248 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5248 Hello All, My last 9 years of astronomy have been spent living and thinking comets, and including them in my chasing list for *every single* week of the last Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:24:14 GMT Amar Sharma http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5247 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5247 Hello All, I write some comments in the next email. This is just the statistics. - Total non-repeat comet count (visual and ccd) = 56 - Total comets visually Tue, 23 Oct 2012 06:20:58 GMT Amar Sharma http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5246 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5246 Indeed, Akarsh. And you know it best. About other observations I have written a report on b-a-s. Managed to get something through haze. Its a challenge when Tue, 23 Oct 2012 06:03:08 GMT Akarsh Simha http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5245 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/majestic_universe/message/5245 ... Wow, Amar! That is indeed amazing, that you accomplished this! The perseverance of staying up despite hazy skies, or checking the sky at regular intervals