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- From: seymour@ast.saic.com (Ken Seymour)
- Subject: Re: Questions about P/Swift-Tuttle
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.230850.27394@ast.saic.com>
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- Organization: SAIC
- References: <1992Nov5.081635.1201@horizon.com>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 23:08:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.081635.1201@horizon.com> schriber@horizon.com (Mike Schriber) writes:
- >First of all, in response to a previous post, I belive the /P in
- >P/Swift-Tuttle designates it as a member of Perseid group (I may be
- >very wrong on this though, since the Perseids are a metor shower).
-
- Actually the P/ means periodic.
-
- >
- >My questions...
- >
- >Where is Swift-Tuttle visible? What section of the sky (Coords. or
- >what constelation it's in) and about what time of night is it above the
- >horizon?
- >
-
- It is visible in the constellation Hercules. I
- observed it north of the "keystone" asterism last sunday night. With
- 11x80 binoculars it seemed somewhat brighter than M13 (not far away).
- The comet is heading east and south.
- >
-
- > Thanks for any and all info
- >
- > Mike Schriber
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- Ken Seymour
- seymour@ast.saic.com
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